March 2011
1 post
Applied Physics Paragraph (Faculty Lecture Lab)
Sean Tauber 3/18/11 Physics 121 Applied Physics Paragraph (Faculty Lecture Lab) Unfortunately, I had a chemistry lab so I wasn’t able to come to the faculty lecture! What follows is a statement about applied physics… I think that the events that have unfolded at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the last week are an excellent example of applied physics. The mechanical process...
January 2011
2 posts
Help your students become human
“Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness. Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates. So I am suspicious of education. My request is: help your students become human. Your efforts must never...
"Desiderata" ~ Max Erhman
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become...
December 2010
1 post
a.out: The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard →
patrickthomson:
Back in the early 80’s, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic systems to drive these tapes at high speeds – for that period of time. (Used under license from Laughing Squid. The original is available here.) They had hacked engineered the tape drives such that you could have one central drive – the ‘A’ drive –...
October 2010
2 posts
Halloween in I.V.
The following is posted on the SBCC internal website for students: Dear SBCC Students: On behalf of concerned members of the Santa Barbara City College community, I would like to alert you to the potentially serious consequences of choosing to go to Isla Vista this Halloween. Over the Halloween weekend, nearly three hundred deputies, including some on horseback, will be deployed in Isla Vista...
Perception, Reality, and the Self
There’s a subtle hum of electricity in an empty room with a receptionist. Current empowers fluorescent gases to jump states, emitting the light of excited atoms on to the travertine tiles and dark cherry wood furniture below. The delicate tapping of acrylic fingernails on keys echoes throughout the large space, reverberating against the aluminum logo behind the head of Michelle — Going the...
August 2010
1 post
Found on Reddit: Notice of ridiculous activity...
July 2010
2 posts
Breaking News - You Are Fat
1007210: Npr News: 07 - 29 - 2010 3Pm Et by Npr Download now or listen on posterous NPR - Fat.mp3 (431 KB) NPR has the story.
Where the Dirty Hipsters Are [vid]
June 2010
1 post
Postmodern Serfdom and the EULA
Google maps navigation will never come to Palm Pre because Palm and Sprint have an antitrust agreement in violation of law to pressure users to buy subscription services from Sprint. Sprint’s navigation “service” is “only” $10 a month, which equates to $600 over five years. Google maps navigation is free and a lot of third party vendors haven’t bothered to...
May 2010
17 posts
From the desk of Frank Sinatra
via lettersofnote.com Really good. Really great.
Israel uses excessive force, again, killing...
Israel says it allows about 15,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid into Gaza every week. But the United Nations says this is less than a quarter of what is needed. Read @ BBC News - Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship At least 10 activists killed in Israel Navy clashes onboard Gaza aid flotilla Update: Initial reports – 10-16 people killed, 30-60 injured in Israeli attack on...
Like we need more proof that there was no reason...
Interesting stuff starts @ 21:11
“The officer that was in charge said, ‘Here’s the deal, next March’ and this was in August of 2002, ‘We’re going to invade Iraq, we’re going to overthrow Saddam Hussein, we’re going to open the world’s largest air force base so that we can move all of our air assets out of Saudi Arabia into Iraq and...
Meltup | Buy Local, Save the United States [Video]
via youtube.com Yikes. May be a good idea to buy some silver. Support local business - buy only from those who buy local.
Saturday
Facebook, you are now my bitch; next up - the rest...
Facebook has been reduced to a shell of it’s former self on my compy. The privacy issues were too much for me to be comfortable with, especially with Mark Zuckerberg’s attitude towards privacy now known. I plan to keep my account open strictly for page management for Red Feather Vintage. I have deleted all cookies in my main browser, Firefox, and blocked facebook.com from dropping...
Obama sends $80 billion nukes bill to Senate
Obama sends $80 billion nukes bill to Senate Nobel Peace Price winner Barack Obama sent to the Senate Thursday a 10-year 80 billion dollar package to “rebuild and sustain America’s nuclear stockpile”. The Democrats are obviously backing up their president’s proposal, and the Republicans, who are supposed to be against big government, have sadly also announced there...
I have no special talents. [PIC]
Are you f***ing kidding me, History Channel? [PIC]
Really??
Lieberman is talking about doing what to American...
It is safe to argue that almost every society in the history of the modern world has experienced acts of terrorist violence that make that car bomb in New York City seem like a drunk’s pathetic rendition of a recipe from the “Anarchist Cookbook.” Throughout the world, far deadlier threats are an ongoing reality, and yet America has often urged restraint in reaction to such dangers, asserting that...
Curious about how the general public feels about...
Feeling like you’ve let your mind wander too far out of the box? Take a look at the comments on news stories on Yahoo! News and give yourself some perspective on your own internal dialogue.The screenshot above is related to this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100505/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_bomb Be sure to check the vote count on the right hand side.Violence begets violence. I...
Only in Santa Barbara do event planners hire...
Can someone explain to me why this Pakistani dude...
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by...
via google.com This is genius. I love the baby catcher at the bottom. Alternatively, there could be doctors standing around the spinning table with arms ready to catch the flying infant at time of ejection. My kids will be born this way - if this is how you start your life, you are guaranteed to enjoy the rest of it.
Good job, technology [Pic]
Sweet! My tweet is now immortalized.
Power! Friends! Prestige!
via chquotes.synthasite.com I’m free!
The Truth About the Arizona Immigration Law and...
Download now or listen on posterous No_Agenda_-_Arizona_Immigration_Law_and_American_Exceptionalism.mp3 (17814 KB) Google “arizona mexican drug cartels”. No Agenda is a podcast that dissects the media. Check it out here: http://www.noagendashow.com This full episode is available here: http://www.mevio.com/episode/228741/na-195-2010-04-29 ...
Decentralize the web with Diaspora | Opensource...
About this project Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data. What is the project about? We believe that...
READING: Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" | Electronic...
Social networking companies don’t have it easy. Advertisers covet their users’ data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a tremendously tempting opportunity. But most users simply don’t want to share as much information with marketers or other “partners” as corporations would like them to. So...
April 2010
50 posts
Brett Domino: Justin Timberlake Medley | Epic......
via youtube.com So good.
Even with STRICT privacy settings, Facebook STILL...
Try it. Go to http://zesty.ca/facebook/ and give it your Facebook ID. Then click through the various list of items… everything that you see here is viewable by a potential future employer, your parents, your ex’s, and your stalker neighbors. Would you want a future employer seeing that you just became a fan of “picking boogers and eating them because they are salty”? ...
New iPad game uses iPhone as game controller,...
via youtube.com Most expensive video game console ever.
Interview with Matthew Crawford, author of "Shop...
Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work talks about management, economics, institutional BS, and honesty only found in work with rational systems. He’s so right on so many levels. via C-Span
My penis has way more apps than your penis. WAY...
I just don't eat vegetarian... [Video]
via youtube.com
:)
Santa Barbara: #9 Market for Apple Products
9. Santa Barbara-Santa Marina-San Luis Obispo, CA: Aside from breathtaking views and sun-drenched beaches, the Santa Barbara DMA is home to 141,000 Apple users, 27.9% of area adults. Residents can take their pick of two Apple stores—one in Santa Barbara and another in San Luis Obispo—to fill all their Apple needs. Top 10 Apple Markets in the United States via smrb.com Ohhhhh brother.
How not to sell a product
via youtube.com
“ohm2rs: Is this parody? I don’t get it. The level of idiocy is astounding.”
Love it.
“A malty, robust, jobless recovery ale.” Loves it. Sent from a wireless device
Meatball crowned Beautiful Bulldog at Iowa...
I’m speechless,” said Meatball’s co-owner, Ryan Anderson of Des Moines. “He’s got a lot of character to him. He’s got a lot of personality and he likes playing with everyone else.” As winner, Meatball received a key to the city, a royal cape and crown. He will make numerous public appearances at Drake Relays events, which continue through Saturday.via...
Mister Roberts (Christopher Guest) interviews a...
The Library of Congress will soon have full access...
Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.
That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every...
#97 Patrick Watson / Part 4 - A Take Away Show |...
via vimeo.com This Patrick Watson character has some cool, creative stuff…
A second veteran of Bravo Company 2-16, Ethan...
Lusine - "Two Dots" | when it's put this way, all...
via vimeo.com This video gives my nerdy side some heart and my emotional side some balance.
Genius at work: http://www.chorewars.com/
Stupid Fight: Choose two Twitterers. See whose...
What’s this all about? FACT: A lot of people on Twitter are stupid. Many of these people follow celebrities and try to send them messages. But which celebrity’s fans are most stupid? It’s time to find out. What do you mean by ‘stupid’? Stupid Fight can’t go out and administer an intelligence test to each person that’s sending messages to a celebrity....
Moonwatch: Keep track of your crazy f***ing mood...
Moonwatch
The moon has been a guide and object of admiration and mysticism during thousands of years. Agriculture, fertility, tidal patterns, human behaviour and many other activities have been linked to the different moon phases.
Moonwatch has been designed to establish a relationship between the moon cycle and a person’s emotional states. It’s a new concept of time based on nature which...
New York Gets Destroyed, 8-bit Style [VIDEO]
via mashable.com Awesome.
Hopefully seeing Date Night with Tuna Dry and...
Flotopia 2010: Media is out with help from the...
Download now or watch on posterous VID 00014.3GP (1782 KB)