October 2009
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The Shaggs — It’s Halloween
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nanowrimo →
Flickr group.
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“The real prize in NaNoWriMo is the manuscript itself, and the exhilarating...”
– NaNoWriMo FAQ
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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 - Wikipedia →
Woah. I think this page took the longest of any page that I’ve ever researched on Wikipedia. It’s a list of all the two-letter abbreviations for countries, codes widely recognized in their use in domain names.
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Bookstores fight back with instant paperbacks
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Sounds terrific for the locals who make it to the end of NaNoWriMo.
In a public unveiling slated for September 29, the Harvard Book Store will become only the second US merchant to install such an apparatus, which prints, binds, and trims perfect-bound books — complete with full-color covers and black-and-white guts — in about four minutes.
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Energy researchers find Obama an eager student →
Fluff piece recounting Obama’s trip to MIT last week.
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Super 88 Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy →
Bummer.
via Rekha6
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BPitch Control Tenth Anniversary Sale at Bleep →
Ten BPitch Control albums available for $8 each to celebrate.
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The Return of Hobbes →
Awesome. Makes me like Fight Club a little more to think it’s Calvin and Hobbes.
givemesomethingtoread:
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s true....
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Schmidt Sting Pain Index →
bestofwikipedia:
The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center.
Here’s the index:
1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 Fire...
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The Boston Book Festival October 24, 2009 →
How did I just hear about this?!
Christ… and ALICIA SILVERSTONE will be there!
… and a bunch of unknowns like David Pogue, John Hodgman, Ken Burns, and Nicholas Negroponte.
[EDIT: I was taking that lords name in vain, he will not, I suspect, be there.]
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President Obama’s speech on Science and Technology... →
I’m proud to be an MIT Employee and American today. Watch the whole speech. It’s great and funny, though he stumbled a little. It’s terrific to have a President who doesn’t act (?) retarded.
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“George Washington had an office [in Somerville] during the early months of the...”
– Thomas Champion, City Spokesman for Somerville via Somerville Info
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NaNoDrawMo
I was thinking of doing a childrens book for NaNoWriMo but thought it was too against the rules. Now I’m back in!
mrgan:
stevenf:
I keep thinking about a NaNoWriMo style personal art challenge for the month of November. (If a picture is worth a thousand words, would that mean 50 pictures?)
I’m in.
“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had...”
– Lakota Sage Lame Deer (via patrickrhone)
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This is the parking situation for MIT commuters for the President’s visit this Friday:
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE
In preparation for Friday’s special event, motor vehicle and bicycle parking restrictions will be in place in the Kresge Lot, the Main Lot and on Amherst and Danforth Streets.
The Kresge Lot will be closed from 11PM Thursday, October 22 to 3PM on Friday, October 23. Kresge permit...
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my fall television update
These are on my playlist:
Fringe (started with Season Two, intend to watch the first on Netflix)
Lost (just caught up to current season which isn’t out yet)
Stargate: Universe (which is marginally more Battlestar–esque than the lame previous incarnations)
Dollhouse
The Office
Parks and Recreation (Louis CK is terrific)
FlashForward (the acting seems a little stiff on that one)
Psych (the...
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MBTA > Holbrook crash demonstrates value of... →
Why does this benefit me? It seems like the example is that it covers the MBTA’s asses. I don’t care about that. I just want the buses and trains to run on time, not break down, and be clean. None of those things seem to happen.
When Susan Brown allegedly fell asleep at the wheel Monday and hit an MBTA bus, it was not immediately clear what had happened. But as in many other incidents involving...
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
– The Polymath
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Terrific idea. It would be great in league with...
The Phantom Mint
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who tried to cancel my Mint account, only to find that it kept going on without me.
mrgan:
On September 14, 2009, Intuit announced that it would purchase Mint.com, a personal-finance tool with a great reputation among its users. Not having much faith in Intuit, I cancelled my Mint account promptly. Whenever I cancel any service like this, I attempt to log...
Theory: The Large Hadron Collider has failed to... →
At least something is looking out for us. That hardon collider is dangerous.
trainque:
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes...
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Drinking like Mad Men →
I haven’t watched Mad Men, but I assume that they drink like that every day, not just once. Their alcohol tolerance would be higher.
Some folks from the web magazine Double X wondered what it would be like to drink as much in the workplace as the characters do on Mad Men. So they spent the day getting hammered and tried to do some work. The results are somewhat different than on the show.
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The hot new musical instrument: Your smartphone -... →
SERIOUSLY CNN? You reviewed ZOOZbeat of all the iPhone music apps? That’s like writing an article on famous artists and their preferred medium and choosing Timmy, who likes crayons, especially the taste.
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