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A while back I was asked for Australian comedy recommendations and managed to completely overlook the brilliant Tim Minchin, responsible for such gems as this:
(there is another shorter version which includes the dedication to his wife here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaid72fqzNE)
(there is another shorter version which includes the dedication to his wife here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaid72fqzNE)
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2008-09-15 23:49Google Reader Shared Items
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- Thank You Thursdays: Your (Notice I Didn't Say Female) Brain [via
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gentle_gamer. Comments to the post made me warier of this video. Did she have that brain cut in half to illustrate her point? Am pretty sure most brains I have seen are in a single piece unless cut. Much of her described experience of having a stroke is not unfamiliar to me, if to a greater degree. Not, I stress, identical, but apparently similar to something which can be accessible to me. If I were to release certain brakes, if I could remember how. I have a lot of hostility to the frame in which she presents her thesis, despite finding much recognition or even agreement in the details.
I dislike the way people jumped on ropty's comment ("Non-gendered? Dividing the world into two parts, one is linear, unemotional, calculating and the other about feeling, emotions, timeless oneness. Gee, that sounds rather gendered to me.") because this is a thing which is done, this is a way in which brain functioning is presented and those traits are very gendered in this society. Also that my readings of other writings on neurobiology suggest this is a highly oversimplified perspective on human brain hemisphere functioning, though as this was a talk for a lay audience that may have been deliberate. And it still seems to me her described experiences are very 'on point' even if I am not so fond of her presentation of them.
I wonder if making such experience accessible at will would have the effect on the world Dr Taylor describes.] - Video: Blaser tournament unwisely fits Japanese robots with lasers -- PEW PEW [via soltice. If we intercut this with some footage of people we could make a movie of it.]
- New Hubble Images Reveal Plethora of Interacting Galaxies [via soltice. Pretty!]
- Young feminists just want to "go wild and pole dance" [via gentle_gamer.]
- How To Sing Like A Planet [via gentle_gamer. Wherever there be medium and motion, music. The article makes me angry, with it's talk of 'merely' as if scientific explanation of such magnificent happenings cannot be also magnificent, wondrous or beautiful themselves. I lost a lot of esteem for the writer's prior musings when I read that part.]
- Atheism is a condom for your mind [via soltice. The part I disagree with is the phrasing suggestive that removing religious belief is a part and precursor to mental hygiene and health -- I would place taking care of the mind first, and if that leads to the removal of religion then so be it. Someone eventually said so too.]
- Equality Through Intimidation? The Houston HRC Dinner Protest [via gentle_gamer.]
- Comical Surroundings [via soltice. This is interesting but I think I would not like my furniture to be displaying always the same images and words. After so many repetitions reading, wearying.]
- Modular, shape-shifting robots get right back up to creep you out [via soltice. Shiny! Still a ways to go before they are as capable as the version seen in Terminator 2 though.]
- Australia to Remove Antigay Discrimination From 100 Laws [via soltice. An improvement, but not enough.]
- Maintaining Moore's law with new memristor circuits [via soltice. Fascinating (a thing said when {in this case} interested but uneducated in a subject).]
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- Vaccination doesn't cause autism volume what-are-we-up-to-now? [And yet we see how well the continued lack of evidence substantiating a connection is received. *sigh*]
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2008-04-21 14:17
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This was played Monday night. Here are what I found to be the highlights of the show:
Video link here. Posted for Nina Conti's bit which begins at 2:20 but you are allowed to watch the whole thing if you want.
I toldflynnacatri at the beginning I was sure they were about to commit some horrible crime against comedy... they did, but somehow managed to pull it off.
Enjoy!
Video link here. Posted for Nina Conti's bit which begins at 2:20 but you are allowed to watch the whole thing if you want.
I told
flynnacatri at the beginning I was sure they were about to commit some horrible crime against comedy... they did, but somehow managed to pull it off.Enjoy!
Here is a video demonstrating yet again that mutation and selection can produce complexity without design.
I find evolutionary algorithms fascinating and hope someday to play around with and write some myself.
I find evolutionary algorithms fascinating and hope someday to play around with and write some myself.
Videos (again?) again.
2007-12-22 22:50First via lost_angelwings a peek at the opening titles of The Dark Knight:
Fromwhimsical_esper this version of the nativity which unfortunately I always missed out on. Thank you!
lost_angelwings a peek at the opening titles of The Dark Knight:From
whimsical_esper this version of the nativity which unfortunately I always missed out on. Thank you!
