It is with great regret that I inform anyone who gives a toss about my opinion on anything (let alone movies)… that Prometheus, the movie I …
Mercator Schmercator: stick to street view on google maps!
Just realized that Google maps uses the Mercator projection*. Good LORD. I only found this out because I was looking for taiwan (my geography sucks), …
The Generalist Manifesto (version 001)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, …
…”dan jangan lupa bersenang-senang”…
That’s right. I’m telling you to go see THE RAID: redemption. <= R / 18A. Wah! A movie in MALAY makes it to hollywood… and it …
Absurcracy
I’ve learned some fascinating things reading news headlines over the last year or so. This is mostly thanks(?!) to an app on my phone, which …
rubix rhymes
That’s the state of my rubix 4-cube, which I recently re-noticed, hiding behind a vase. The core was not too bad, but the edges were …
The nihilist’s way out
Nihilism seems to have undertones of apathy, doesn’t it? There’s something about it like a big sigh. A world-weary, ‘ho hum’ sort of way of …
Quantifying Occupy
In the ‘Supporting Occupy Toronto‘ segment tonight, Steve Paikin grilled – as nicely as pie – the young, well-meaning pinstriped lawyer dude who spoke in …
Umbilicus
There’s an organisation (whose name I’ve forgotten) doing the rounds with research-backed TED talks and whatever else… (can’t find ’em, my google-fu is weak today) …
Computations with a big ‘C’, vs little ‘c’ computations
In the computing / computable universe worldview, the universe is akin to a giant computation. This inevitably leads to anthropic questions like, ‘what solution is …