Olly carp, I love my school…
You can:
RAD.
This is a really interesting blog if you have any interest in stuff like prediction markets. (Incidentally, I’m with Oddhead on the evaluation of prediction markets by Daily Kos — they’re missing the point.)
Happy new year’s, kids.
Some peopel love mp3s, but I don’t love mp3s. mp3s sound like ass.
For xmas I got a simplistic boom box. And you know what? A simplistic boom box sounds boatloads better than an mp3.
Anyway, now I need to find some stuff to play on it. I found a good top 10 album at Cut the Chord, a blog I’ve grown to like, not the least because the author is maybe as big of an Elliott Smith fan as I am.
Anyway, I can’t sleep.
Ps. FLACs are ok.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a web developer who is a better promoter than this guy… which isn’t at all meant to imply that the work they do is somehow not worthy of the hype; it absolutely is.
Hell, LJWorld.com makes me want to move to Lawrence, Kansas.
I ran across some really good webcasts of an astronomy course at Berkeley (go bears!):
Astro C10 / LS C70U Introduction to General Astronomy | Fall 2006
This prof, Alex Filippenko has a real gift for teaching; he’s received a boatload of awards and watching his lectures makes it clear why.
I’ve been through about maybe 7 of them in a few days. It’s an overview course, no complex math or anything, so you can pretty much just cruise along. (I’ve also been watching the chem1a course, which you definitely can’t cruise through).
Accessible as it is, he covers really interesting stuff, which I never happened to study in school. Did you know about the green flash at sunset? I didn’t.
The web rules.
update: dammit … they took it down. ☹
update: undammit! It was just archived:
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Astro C10 / LS C70U