Yesterday I discovered (and subsequently announced) that Google Transit had finally come to Rhode Island. For those not familiar, Google Transit allows any public transportation system to integrate their route information with the “get directions” feature on google maps. Brilliantly, the service is completely free, so all a city needs to do to take advantage […]
My girlfriend recently informed me that my post on malformed tomatoes was part of larger phenomena: the unusually-shaped vegetable (USV). The wikipedia entry contained some links eye-opening links, and after a comprehensive survey of USVs worldwide, I have determined that their most prominent public representative is the cubic watermelon.
These box-shaped melons were first cultivated by […]
Since the beginning of last week, I’ve been busy teaching my advisor’s class on computational complexity. Complexity theory isn’t really my area of research, but it’s definitely one of the reasons I became a computer science major. When the class is over I plan on blogging about some of the topics. People seem to have […]
After this post and this post, it seems excessive to mention that passive-aggressive notes is up for a Webby Award in the “weird” category. Then again, maybe a little excess is what this blog needs. Plus, I’d hate to snub David Bowie).
Unfortunately, we’re up against such blogging heavy weights as icanhasceezburger, so despite our recent […]
Daniel Drezner considers the power of 25 word reviews. I’m reminded of Wired’s Collection of very short stories.
Hemingway’s:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Via Techcrunch, the UK’s Society of Authors is expressing concern that internet-based book piracy may prevent more and more authors from writing. Before I try to quell their concerns, I’d like to congratulate them on being a cut above the music industry. Instead of simply whining about the potential drops in CD book sales, they […]
I’ve been back from Belize for a bit more than a week now, but the prospect of condensing a country into a blog post proved daunting. Ideally I would have written a series of posts about Belize while actually in Belize, but I was too busy writing a belated blog post about SXSW Interactive. […]