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Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language

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

FTRW 2011 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Pace writes his name for the first time!

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

FTRW 2011 – Day Six – Friday Fun Link – Leck mich im Arsch

One of Mozart’s lesser known works from his punk classical phase. 😉  

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

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

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

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

100 Best First Lines and Last Lines From Novels

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

In Defense of Sarah Palin

[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

Music Monday – “Jesus was a black man, No, Jesus was Batman, no-no-no, that was Bruce Wayne!”

Okay, my Atheist Xmas series of posts is done but I just had to share this song which has one of the best lines ever (see post title)!

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes,

Music Monday – “DA;LKJFWQ-E9UFE;LKJF;DLKJDA,M”

I’d bookmarked this clip of all of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits played at once as something that would make a humourous Music Monday post someday. Revisiting it, I

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