January 14, 2012

This is important.

(HT: The Door)

January 14, 2012
"I think that Van the Man was merely emphatically advising the fan in which direction the fuck should have been properly shut."

Language Log » Fucking shut the fuck up

Thanks, Bob.

January 13, 2012
"I love everything about the brewing process - the coddling of enzymes to convert the starch in the grain into sugar, the boiling to coagulate proteins and induce Maillard reactions, boiling hops to isomerize the alpha acids and bind them to the wort moleculres, propagating yeast to do your fermentation, the fermentation itself, and so on. It’s amazing to me. Bottling, meh, what a hassle."

—Bob

Boy did that give me a hankering to coagulate some proteins.

January 11, 2012
Theories of humor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So unsatisfying.

January 9, 2012
Can charisma be taught? - CBS News Video

Oh I want that sociometer.

January 9, 2012
"Introspection means talking to yourself, and one of the best ways of talking to yourself is by talking to another person. One other person you can trust, one other person to whom you can unfold your soul. One other person you feel safe enough with to allow you to acknowledge things—to acknowledge things to yourself—that you otherwise can’t. Doubts you aren’t supposed to have, questions you aren’t supposed to ask."

The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz

January 9, 2012
"Our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of exper­tise."

The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz

January 8, 2012
Turning words into touchdowns: Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL? - Slate Magazine

December 23, 2011

Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater outtake (by louisck)

December 21, 2011
Pop Hit Prediction Algorithm Mines 50 Years of Chart-Toppers for Data | Underwire | Wired.com

December 18, 2011

(Jesus visits Tim Tebow)

December 16, 2011

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (by RobynVEVO)

December 16, 2011
Longest English sentence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bring it.

December 10, 2011
Paris Review – Document: The Symbolism Survey, Sarah Funke Butler

In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind?

December 6, 2011
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Why is this so interesting?

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Why is this so interesting?

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