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AT said, of post by Peter  - 2010-03-09 10:17:54
Word. I posted this to FB on Sunday. Apparently it's part of a graduation speech.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/03/a-different-kind-of-freedom.html
Chris said, of post by Brian  - 2009-09-16 10:22:33
Very nice display.  Much more intuitive than the music samples (and the split visualization helps, too).
GN said, of post by Brian  - 2009-09-11 08:46:49
Very Nice
Brian said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-07-25 00:52:50
Har, har.
Chris said, of post by Brian  - 2009-07-08 15:53:15
My childhood plans to tunnel straight through the earth seem even more foolish now...
Brian said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-07-07 06:24:47
I played outside (inevitably on our own), but I remember having to be coaxed into it.  (Preferred it indoors.)  It was helpful that we had friends a few doors down the road.

Relating to unmonitored play, and its social acceptability, I was hanging out with child outside a mall store today (in Guam - we happen to be in Guam right now), waiting for Lisa to shop.  The employee there, apparently seeing the child and not me, asked Lisa if that was her daughter out there.  Then she asked, "who is watching her?"  (Still not sure how we were supposed to take that, but I think it speaks to that allowing unmonitored play is going to be an uphill battle.)
AT said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-07-05 12:48:24
Thanks for that great article, Mark. I've often wondered similar things, as my childhood was filled with wilderness (and even non-wilderness: the cornfield from which to harass the golf course, the golf course itself, even nighttime streets filled with neighborhood children playing vaguely perilous games). The time I broke through the ice of a hidden winter stream to be rescued by my brother: wilderness, as vast as my young mind could conjure. The following winter when I returned the favor as he fell through in a different place: wilderness. The woods where ominous older kids did drugs, and we dared venture only during the day: wilderness.

Can we still create experiences of wilderness for children, or would our efforts irrevocably alter it anyway? Or am I just being overly romantic?
DaveR said, of post by Peter  - 2009-06-30 06:45:09
Now I feel dirty inside.
Peter said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-06-19 06:15:27
I have grown to love this site, largely because of its minute parsing of ridiculous questions.

http://www99.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+the+sun+of+bacon
Elizabeth said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-06-18 14:27:28
Fun things to ask:
Hello, how are you?
What are you?
Are you Skynet?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
A hospital? what is it?
How many roads must a man walk down?
Where are my keys?
Chris said, of post by Brian  - 2009-06-12 15:04:20
Yeah, that second one was pure genius.
AT said, of post by Brian  - 2009-06-12 13:42:01
Indeed, my mind is definitively blown.
t smith said, of post by Peter  - 2009-05-27 00:21:49
[Government Employee] Drinks [Large Glass of Fermented Grape Beverage] to Celebrate [Long-Awaited New Blog Post].

Can't sleep.
Brian said, of post by Eric  - 2009-05-09 18:05:41
Lisa and I are going to watch How Is Babby Formed on repeat until we hear more.
Brian said, of post by Eric  - 2009-05-08 18:01:49
Congratulations!  We are very excited, all the way out here in Atsugi, Japan.
Chris said, of post by Peter  - 2009-03-25 23:43:24
Absolutely amazing.
Peter said, of post by Chris  - 2009-03-11 18:56:17
I anxiously await Belligerent Chimp's future scientific discoveries.  He should probably have his own website. Belligerentchimpproves.com? 

Possible entries:
"Belligerent Chimp Proves Riemann Hypothesis"
"Belligerent Chimp Proves String Theory"
"Belligerent Chimp Proves Poincaré Conjecture"

Ideally, he would always be wearing a mortarboard.
Peter said, of post by Amanda  - 2009-03-09 18:13:11
These are awesome. 

Also, from our archives:

Bad Spock Drawings:
http://badspock.blogspot.com/

Law and Order: Artistic Intent
http://www.brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html
(The guy who started this also made http://www.brandonbird.com/sega_ford.html , which is just about perfect.)
Brian said, of post by -sh  - 2009-03-07 10:49:16
Brian said, of post by Boyd  - 2009-02-21 13:58:59
That's great.  I used to live on the other side of the block from there.
Brian said, of post by Brian  - 2009-02-21 13:53:48
They're all ones I've recommended (or were recommended by others) last year, but the dismal buying-mp3s-online landscape has turned me off until recently.

One I haven't recommended yet, though:
http://plurib.us/musicrecommend/rec.php?recID=111
AT said, of post by Brian  - 2009-02-20 21:02:19
So you bought 5 albums last week? I want some recommendations!
Boyd said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-02-15 08:43:51
Regrettably, I hadn't heard of or seen it.

I have seen "Black Sheep", which is about herds of zombie sheep -- the scene where the lamb chases our heroes in a car and accidentally drives off a cliff is worth the price (and anguish) of admission.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/
Peter said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-02-15 04:46:38
Chris said, of post by Chris  - 2009-01-25 21:36:17
I, for one, totally agree with this interpretation.  Most of the CDs I've purchased lately have been the direct result of free access to the music online--I would not have made most of those purchases if I weren't already certain I liked the music.

Is this good?  In the past, many of my CD purchases would be impulse buys that I'd end up regretting.  Better for me, worse for bands I don't like?
Peter said, of post by Peter  - 2009-01-24 00:19:55
I am here to say that I continue to love this thing.

"It's like writing a beautiful book and then tearing up all the pages, and then deciding that you shouldn't have written the book. I do that at the beginning of the process."

"For me, the obvious influence was Cassavetes, because I've never seen anything he's done."

"When the Silent Film Institute calls, your phone doesn't ring. You just have to know when to pick it up. I did. It was just a dial tone. They don't call, they email."
Chris said, of post by MarkG  - 2009-01-19 09:37:54
Prescient.
MarkG said, of post by DaveR  - 2008-12-31 19:13:38
I think it's in Australia.  BHP is some Australian coal concern.
Peter said, of post by Peter  - 2008-12-28 18:36:07
MC Hammer is just about perfect for this:
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=DcNUx0-XEfw
Lisa said, of post by Brian  - 2008-12-20 23:32:21
Nice, Bri. At least you managed to squeeze in a few drawings this year! :-)
MarkG said, of post by Peter  - 2008-12-14 00:49:09
I couldn't read it.  I love his essays - best writer of his generation is probably right.  Very sad.
Brian said, of post by Brian  - 2008-12-11 21:11:41
In the vein of the last line making the comic,
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001364.html
Chris said, of post by MarkG  - 2008-11-20 22:54:04
Ha, that was fun.  Let's do it all again!
julia said, of post by MarkG  - 2008-11-20 22:32:28
That test is a little out of context because in most cases where you're an election judge trying to verify voter intent and duplicate the ballot, you have more than just one race voted to go off of, so you can see if someone marks their ballot irregularly but consistently.
Peter said, of post by Brian  - 2008-11-14 20:49:57
As you get this project together. . .I would imagine some mp3 programs have pretty extensible components (Foobar comes to mind.)  I'd love to have the colorstream of an mp3 be the trackbar while that mp3 is playing.

Or, there's always a WinAmp visualization plugin, which would also be cool.
Chris said, of post by Peter  - 2008-11-04 16:09:37
Peter said, of post by Brian  - 2008-11-01 10:04:25
I will counter with my own personal haunting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG2PO2VFKnQ
Peter said, of post by Brit  - 2008-10-30 13:37:58
I vote that we make the plural of "octopus" be "octoplex".
MarkG said, of post by MarkG  - 2008-10-28 18:50:41
This video has gone viral.  It's going out to more than 30 new people per second!
Brian said, of post by Peter  - 2008-10-27 22:37:22
Neat site.  I feel like they/wikipedia could have found a better picture of Ross Perot.
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