Crazy But Able

Goldfish living in a deep fryer. I’m not 100 percent convinced this isn’t a trick. Still, it looks awesome.

A friend just told me that I should check out Pandora. It’s pretty freakin’ cool. You can make you own radio stations based on your musical preferences. It tries to find a wide variety of things that you may like related to the bands or songs you input. You tell Pandora […]

Weird new theory that nerves communicate using sound waves (”The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced.”)

I was just researching the evolutionary advantages between haploidy and diploidy. In the process I found a very amusing abstract.
From: The evolutionary advantage of diploid sex by A.O. Sousa, et al
We modify the Penna Model for biological aging, which is based on the mutation-accumulation theory, in order to verify if there would be any […]

I just got done installing and configuring the WP_Identicon plugin. What’s an identicon? It’s a little geometric shape that can help visually identify commenters, (among other things). Identicons were invented by Don Park, and you can check out his page for more information.
Personally I like how aesthetically pleasing his icons […]

Prepare yourself for the latest pollutant in the pop wasteland:
“We have envisioned this as the first fragrance for the technosexual generation,” said Mr. Murry, using a term the company made up to describe its intended audience of thumb-texting young people whose romantic lives are defined in part by the casual hookup.
Last year, the company went […]

“getting it on for the good of the planet”

Dweck had suspected that praise could backfire, but even she was surprised by the magnitude of the effect. “Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control,” she explains. “They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child’s control, and it provides […]

Iraq update (good news, for a change)

Cat and Girl on Wikipedia. (See also: Cat and Girl on Wikipedia)