Archive for April, 2008

LOLcats and evolution (not as academic as it sounds)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Evolution Explains Why Lolcats Control Your Mind I'm looking at you, Amanda.  I found this article while on lunch break.  It's kind of informative (sort of).  It also has a pretty sweet LOLcat picture, as much as I hate to admit it.  (Dune cat).

I need more FBAM!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Howdy everyone, www.legacyoftheforce.com has a free StarWars novel download, in PDF, and AudioBook formats. It is for sure worth free. Here is an article on how to make yourself smarter. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/smart_software Sorry my links aren't very descriptive today, but live with it. Also, Carrie, you should start writing your part of FBAM if you ...

Hot weather on the way…

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

With summer soon approaching, make sure you know how to beat the heat.

Distractions

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

For about the past week I've been working on a dreadfully inane school project, unfortunately for me... I keep getting led astray by the internet, (as it is only an Alt+Tab away) even though every time I do, the reasoning part of my mind feebly protests beneath the oppressive drive ...

The Great Firewall of China Loosens Slightly

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Apparently The CBC, BBC, and Wikipedia are no longer blocked by the Chinese government. http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/04/cbc_unblocked_big_thanks_to_se.html Baby steps, but at least somewhat less Orwellian.

Inquiries about Baseball

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Three awesome takeoffs on the Abbott and Costello clasic Who is arguing in a video rental establishment What is the skit as delivered by The Bard I don't know... Third! but Kids in the Hall were always pretty cool in my book.

Updated Story - and Links!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Oh man, I had three good links posted yesterday, but I can't remember what the third one was.http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/That is a bbc thing that reads the most talked about artists and songs, etc. It puts up their album artwork in the cover flow style iPods have, and has it online. Just ...

Database Indeces

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

James I'm interesting in learning more about making databases more efficient.  If you can refer me to some good books/articles/whatever on database designs, indeces, and whatever else is relevant, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Chris

FBAM Page Posted

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Everyone My page is up. I'm happy with how it turned out. Even better, we're now officially into our second cycle! Hooray! You're up, Elmer.

Crypto-Blog

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Randomly awesome idea: similar to A Beautiful Mind, a genius mathematician finds a plot in mass media. The BAD GUYS are sending codes through appropriate blog feeds! Whenever a coded message needs to be posted, they split the message up alternating words among over a dozen blogs, while a ...