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Science models & data are massaged all the time.

July 24th, 2009 in Creative, Media, Quote

There are many bad movies. But occasionally a movie is released that, unwilling to simply sink into deserved forgetfulness, actively challenges critics to match wits in a bout of cultural fisticuffs. In one corner, an eschaton-beckoning attempt to remove humanity from us humans. In the other corner, a solitary soul who must view this world-historical [...]

July 20th, 2009 in Intelligence, Software, Web, Wiki

We all want to be known as awesome. Create users and URLs instead of personal shoeboxes stuffed with inaccessible private stashes.

Congressmen & Congresswomen, Missouri Department of Transportation, Governor, Mayor of St. Louis &c,
The service cuts implemented by Metro yesterday illustrate how harmful the actions of MDOT & the Missouri government have been to the health and vitality of public transportation in St. Louis.
Really, the fact that our neighboring state of Illinois funds public transportation at [...]

March 11th, 2009 in Music

In decreasing order of abstraction:

Invisible Cinema by Aaron Parks
Lay It Down by Al Green
Avatar by Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Limits of the Sky by The Bridges*
The Voice of Lightness by Tabu Ley Rochereau
The ‘59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem
At Mount Zoomer by Wolf Parade
An Ocean Between Us by As I Lay Dying*
Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust [...]

June 24th, 2008 in Flat, Identity, Life, Web

Smallest blog posts: now on Twitter. I’ll get around to adding my tweets to the sidebar soon. WP 1.5 broke my layout editor.Smallest thing done at work that I’m proud of: refactored nasty error page only a programmer could love (Look Ma, a stack trace in 18pt Courier bold!) into a quiet, reassuring css-based error [...]