July 2008
6 posts
Laboratory Conditions →
A profile in five parts of a machinist, occupying his retirement from the best known National Lab with warehousing and occasionally selling surplus from the (sometimes metaphorical, sometimes not) Nuclear Machine. I know that the first name of the Physics I did this past year was Nuclear. It’s all very abstract now, but someday it may tell some engineer how hard the chamber has to be to get...
Amazon's gossip problem →
In a spectacular metaphor for collective human behavior, Amazon’s servers spread false information by gossiping, eventually driving the entire system to a standstill.
Please return the moon to its original position... →
Spectacular music video from Brooklyn pop duo MGMT. Deeply, earnestly sexy, all the more so because of its modesty.
Twittered by rands.
