The Danger of Cosmic Genius
About 30 years ago, Kenneth Brower wrote a wonderful book called The Starship and the Canoe. It’s about Freeman Dyson and his son George. It’s a wonderful book because it’s about so many different...
Author: Mike Garrity
Tax Cut Deal
Since I’ve opined several times here on the federal budget, I should probably give my $0.02 on this week’s news. I wouldn’t presume to know whether or not this is really the best compromise...
Friday Night Videos
Here’s what we’ve been watching this week. Jarrett Heather’s video for Jonathan Coulton’s song Shop Vac. and Kent Jenkins playing everything from Mozart to Lady Gaga on his PVC tubing. Chris isn’t too happy...
The Amoeba’s Tale
I mentioned Margret Atwood’s Twitter experiences back in March. The Guardian posted a nice interview with her the other day. It touches on science, literature, comics, hockey, and her new invention the Long Pen....
The Day After Thanksgiving
What did you do for Thanksgiving? We ripped our kitchen apart. This is what it looked like before we started. See that upper cupboard over the peninsula? We decided that it makes the counter...
Karma and the Tea Party
Jonathan Haidt had an interesting article about Libertarians in the Wall Street Journal the other day. He claims that it’s all about karma. Nice update on the earlier interview I linked to back here.
Schubert Quintet
Last night we went to Jordan Hall to hear the Tokyo Quartet and Lynn Harrell perform the Schubert Quintet. It’s an amazing piece of music on several levels. It was a major influence on...
Processing.js Reaches 1.0
Yeah! We’ve been spending most of our Processing cycles lately with the Android version, but it’s really nice to hear that the JavaScript version just turned 1. Go check it out here.
