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At Mint, I spent all day (and some of my night) building Islandoo, a social networking site with the current focus of auditioning people for the British reality show Shipwrecked.
Creating and participating in the Islandoo community is a ton of fun, especially once you chat with some new people a bit. But I warn you, […]

xkcd is my new favorite web comic. Though Achewood is a close second. (If you don’t get the joke above, it’s because you’re not a computer nerd, which is nothing to be embarassed about.)

Father: “Do you like your hot coco?”
Little kid: “Yeah.”
Father: “What does it taste like?”
Little kid: “Not like toothepaste.”

Earlier tonight I went to see Inconvenient Truth playing at the cinema 50 feet from my apartment. But that’s not what this post is about. Standing in line for candy, I did a double- then triple-take at the man standing behind me. Finally I placed where I’d seen him: Mayor Bill Timber of Super Troopers […]

Quoth my mom:
I want to see that new movie, um, The Devil Wears Pravda.
I’d much rather see that movie.

Via Gizmodo

YouTube has videos of Stephen Colbert hosting the White House Correspondents Association Dinner: one, two, three (it’s presented in three parts). Update: YouTube removed the videos for copyright infringement. But you can watch the video (streaming RealPlayer link) on CSPAN’s site. Colbert plays the same character at the dinner as he plays on his show. […]

An older librarian in my office reads the New York Times on her computer and knows I like weblogs. Whenever there’s an article about weblogs, she prints out a hard copy and puts it on my desk.
We make small talk about the article for a minute or two, and I act flattered that she bothered […]

On Merlin’s tip:
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: The fish!

It’s not every day my work is showcased on Boing Boing (albeit tangentially): More ‘net xxx: Los Alamos physics preprint archive.
Note that xxx.lanl.gov is the original URL of arXiv.org from when it was hosted by LANL. In 2001, Ginsparg brought the ‘LANL e-Print archive’ to Cornell, and the site became arXiv.org. xxx.lanl.gov remains as one […]

From NY Times:
Mike Breen, a mathematician at the American Mathematical Society in Providence, R.I., said the chances of being one of the people who correctly picked the Final Four in ESPN.com’s contest this year were about 1 in 750,000. Last year, he said, roughly 1 in 700 brackets included the correct four teams.
Note that there […]

Spiriferously resultsOriginally uploaded by ktheory.
Scene: I was knocking off my RSS items for the week at my parents’ house in Binghamton. My father was reading David Foster Wallace’s new collection of essays, Consider the Lobster.
Dad: “Aaron, can you look up a word for me? S-p-i-r-i-f-e-r-o-u-s-l-y.”
Me: “Uh, there’s one google hit, and it’s a chapter excerpt […]

Crashed LinuxOriginally uploaded by milliped.
Apparently some of those airline screnes run linux. And sometimes the hard disk flakes out.
I like how white this photo is…like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. Except for the flight attendant.

Ruthie tests out her new iSightOriginally uploaded by ktheory.
Awesome! And I get to text out the “Blog this” feature in Flickr.

Everyone in Ithaca knows Gimme Coffee for their social consciousness, trendy baristas, and tasty coffee. (I like their packaging and branding, even though it’s very similar to illy’s. The modern silver and red packaging gets my attention in the morning the way less shiny objects would after I’ve had some coffee.)
Ooh, they even have a […]