Facticity

Untruth and Unreason – Cantor and the GOP (0)

2/25/10 •

I’m always a little surprised by the lies uttered by the GOP and their Ministry of Truth (Fox News), and at the capacity of otherwise intelligent people to accept them without analysis. I expect people like Palin, whose world view is about 2,000 years out of date, to accept and propagate this nonsense, but those [...]

Cool Math Problem I Found on XKCD Blog (0)

2/19/10 •

Check out this math problem I found on the xkcd blog:
Alice secretly picks two different real numbers by an unknown process and puts them in two (abstract) envelopes.  Bob chooses one of the two envelopes randomly (with a fair coin toss), and shows you the number in that envelope.  You must now guess whether the [...]

Nuit Blanche (0)

2/13/10 •

I ran across this amazing short film on Boing Boing. Let me just say that if you appreciate fine art, you owe it to yourself to watch this.

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

The Command Line Versus the Graphical User Interface (0)

2/06/10 •

I found a great article at Mozilla Labs on the command line (keyboard) versus the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Most people consider the GUI superior to the command line and most modern operating systems provide a GUI as their main interface, with the command line shell being an option, usually for advanced users. I won’t [...]