Zork!
If you know what I’m talking about, you can find a fully web-based version of the text-adventure classic right here. It’s just as awesome as ever.
HINT: Type “open mailbox”.
All Out Of Ideas, Hollywood?
If you’ve ever been to this site before, you know that I’m not one to pass up a link just because it’s past the peak of its chronological popularity. I know this is SOOOO 2003, but I’d never been there till about 15 minutes ago, and I’ve been literally laughing out loud and being […]
It’s Business Time!
My friend Steve sent me a link to this hilarious video of two guys with guitars singing a song they wrote. I won’t spoil it by giving away any details; suffice it to say that it’s of much higher quality than most virals you see on blogs like this.
High Fidelity, Low Bias
My Wikipedia link of the day is the list of cognitive biases. The entries range from the interestingly obscure (the Mere Exposure Effect is one of my favorites) to the commonplace (Bandwagon Effect), but they’re all important to take into account when making decisions in order to preserve some semblance of objectivity.
A Walk Down Memory Lane
One of the things that tends to happen when you’re the network engineer / computer-fixit-guy for a lab that processes lots of data is that you occasionally come across some serious compatibility issues with old hardware. My friend Arup knows this better than anyone, and in his quest to salvage what he could off […]
Not So Intelligent After All, Is It?
The Register is running a piece with the latest verdict from the UK government: intelligent design doesn’t qualify as science and therefore is banned from science curricula in schools around the country. The crowning blow is that the government has classified intelligent design as a “religion”, just like creationism.
Now all we need is some […]