January 2010
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Life, the Universe, & Everything
“So you see,” said Slartibartfast, slowly stirring his artificially constructed coffee, and thereby also stirring the whirlpool interfaces between real and unreal numbers, between the interactive perceptions of mind and Universe, and thus generating the restructured matrices of implicitly enfolded subjectivity which allowed his ship to reshape the very concept of time and space, “how it is." —Douglas Adams
December 2009
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define: Simultaneity » →
Simultaneity is the property of two events happening at the same time in at least one reference frame.
In mathematics, a system of equations or a set of simultaneous equations share variables; a solution is a set of variable values for which all these equations are satisfied together.
In music, see: simultaneity (music).
In modern physics, see: Simultaneous hyperplane or Relativity of...
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Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design →
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remember this, thanks.
RAMIN: function [^\(]* \(
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"Always hold onto the truth...
…Don’t let others sway your heart. Don’t compromise yourself for the sake of temporal groovyness. Be separate from the crowd that’s awash with normality by standing on a firm foundation. Never waver in your love or faith, and in all you do, please- wear my shoes.” —John Fluevog
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
– Jean Cocteau
Free Yoga Vinyasa Podcasts » →
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"New York City Is Not Ready For The iPhone"
…”AT&T has apparently found a workable solution to the reported data congestion in New York City. They’ve quietly stopped selling the iPhone to customers in the New York metropolitan area, at least from their web site. I guess that’s one way to solve the problem.” continue» (via AT&T Customer Service - The Consumerist)
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@obra: att.com just stopped selling iPhones to New Yorkers??
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Spin Theater
CBOE: My parents gym is so swank! It has a 50ft cylindrical climbing wall, five swimming pools & get this-- a "spin theater;" where I presume stationary cyclists get cinema-quality visuals as they sprint up those mythical mountains. Talk about experience design! the Architecture is excellent.
Halfbakery →
The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.
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It was Late, I was Tired.
– Gary Larson
LastFM Love/Twitter Mashup » →
Last.fm Love Tweet is a handy little service that automatically tweets everytime you love a track. It adds a link so your Twitter followers can listen too, something like: #lastfm #love On The Water by The Walkmen: http://bit.ly/1pcKve.
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“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only ever had wonderful things happen to you.”
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Ten Things That Need to be Redesigned » →
Write Your Own Academic Sentence » →
Need a sentence for your latest article? Write one here! Just select a word or phrase from each drop-down list and click “Write It.” Don’t like the sentence? You can use the same words in a different sentence by clicking “Edit It.” (Click “Edit It” repeatedly to see several options!)
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You measure change, not by behaviors altered in one generation, but by what the...
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Computable de Finetti Measures » →
Computable de Finetti Measures, by Cameron E. Freer, Daniel M. Roy. Submitted Dec 6, 2009: “We prove a uniformly computable version of de Finetti’s theorem on exchangeable sequences of real random variables. As a consequence, exchangeable stochastic processes in probabilistic functional programming languages can be automatically rewritten as procedures that do not modify non-local...
Dynamic Pricing for Digital Goods » →
(/design dynamic systems /models)
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