Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring.
This book’s been floating around the web for awhile now but now someone has uploaded an audio version which to my ears sounds like the real Samuel L. Jackson rather than a parody (although I’m sure I’m mistaken.) Pretty funny shit either way! 321 views on YouTube as I type this – watch it before […]
…say “Takei” according to Star Trek’s George Takei who is taking on a controversial Tennessee law by suggesting people could use his surname as a replacement for the word “gay”. (via MetaFilter)
This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.
Pace writes his name for the first time, originally uploaded by headtale. This post has nothing to do with censorship but everything with the power of the written word. Even though we’re a librarian and a public heath nurse with a special interest in early childhood development, I’d say we’ve been fairly typical in terms […]
One of Mozart’s lesser known works from his punk classical phase. 😉
A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player. That eventually happened in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat the greatest Grandmaster of all-time Garry Kasparov (of course, computers had been beating inferior players for much longer – including ChessMaster 3000 […]
Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your Mother” – Atheists Are Expected to Remain Silent In A World Where Religion Is the Norm O Canada: Economic Lessons from Our Northern Neighbour (via somebody on […]
The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I say “What do we say when we come to the end of a book?” and then he yells out “THE END!” So that’s probably my favourite last […]
[Edit: I’ve gone back and added a few links to this post and re-worded a few points for clarification in the subsequent days and weeks after this was originally posted.] Just to be clear, even to write that post title made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. In fact, I still strongly […]
