I have 3 Wows to give out today. WhyNot.net: I was Googling to see if anyone else was curious about using active noise-cancelling techniques for turning down the volume (in some sense) on babies. There are serious technical challenges (such as that current noise-cancelling devices target a point sink), but it’s a cool idea and even [...]
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Wow Day
03Aug08Whoa.
16Jul08Check this out. I need more time to process it (and read up on most of them)…but whoa. And there’s our man Aitzaz Ahsan at #5! (Obligatory disclaimer: I don’t trust Aitzaz Ahsan for a minute.)
Salvador Dali is the King
12May07Was? Hmm. Slate’s awesome Today’s Pictures recently did a (http://todayspictures.slate.com/dalihap/). Dali Atomicus, above, is my favourite of the ones in the gallery — absolutely striking. This is the sort of art I can appreciate: no blather about the artist’s background or influences, just switch off your brain and look. Everyone visiting London should plan to spend an [...]
Ridiculous, insane strength
27Apr07Syed sent me a link to this guy, a former gymnast who now chronicles his training for parkour and is just ridiculously strong. Like, one-arm chinup ridiculous, and clapping handstand ridiculous. Anyway, I figured YouTube was bound to have something interesting on the topic of ridiculous strength, and sure enough I came across this. The first time [...]
Vista!
15Feb07Seems I’ve permanently broken Ubuntu. I’m not sure quite what happened — I was switching my partitions around so that /home would be off on its own, and the next thing I knew, half my documents were gone and Kubuntu wasn’t booting (’kdestartupconfig’ has troubles, apparently). Anyway, I salvaged my Windows installation and tried starting [...]
Probably very funny
10Feb07This is hilarious. (Explanation: with a fair dice, each face is equally likely to come up. Hence, the expected value is (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 3.5, rounded up to the next integer, 4.) This one’s pretty funny too. I can’t tell what the last one is though…the Laplace transform of love? As people say here, quali’y.
Scrubs ‘My Musical’ now online!
22Jan07Yay, the latest episode of Scrubs, the much-awaited ‘My Musical’ featuring such sure-fire hits as ‘Everything Comes Down to Poo’ and ‘Guy Love’, is up. Rejoice!
Internet Hilarity
20Jan07Insomnia sucks, but here’s the good that’s come of it: This The OC spoof goes beyond genius…it’s mind-blowing, plain and simple: The ‘Bu. (Ooh, and Elliott from Scrubs is in it!) This Beastie Boys/Dre-and-Snoop rap spoof is also high-high-quality: The Chronic(what?)les of Narnia. This is genius, but you’re going to have to know all about MJ’s career to [...]
Check out the new post on the Nairang Foundation blog. Atif’s a recent LSE graduate who has implemented a great idea for raising donations for The Citizens Foundation. It’s a great example of how to pitch in, and an inspiring success story to boot! Please feel free to forward a link to others, or cross-post from [...]
Links Day
10Nov06The stupidest man alive. ‘Nuff said. Now everyone can dunk. Yep, all you have to do is shell out $50-150 an hour, and your personal trainer will plyometric-ise you till you finally feel like a man. FM, SH, I hope you’re paying attention. What is 78 * 23? And am I stupider if it takes me longer [...]
Greatest video ever? Yes. No! YEEEEEEEEEEEES! 2 OGs tearing it up…
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