think or thwim

Check out the a capella (or beatboxed, maybe?) thunderstorm at the beginning of this song.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for 3 days now.

Only one of these headlines is from the Onion. Can you sort out which one is it?

• Man Gets Windows Vista to Work With Printer
• Area Man Mistakes Onion Story for Reality
• Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
• Google Develops Algorithm to Stem Talent Loss

The answer is after the jump:

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Hans Rosling issues a media hype alert.

His new video about breast cancer statistics is an eye opener, too.

Better than smelly hippy hugs. If you somehow haven’t seen the free hugs video watch it first.

An amusing 20 minute video by El Dorado Architects explaining the C.I.C.I.N.A.’s method of determining an objects relative quality.

Thanks Mike.

A trailer for a documentary about Ray Kurzweil.

This month we’ve seen:

• A robot doing research on yeast enzyme genetics making observations, forming theories, devising experiments to test its theories, and successfully carrying out its experiments.
• A computer program deriving fundamental laws of physics from a dataset of pendulum measurements, and more importantly, not deriving any equations at all when it was tested with random data.
• The first circuit board created by a rapid prototyping machine to reproduce one of it’s own circuit boards.

I’m just sayin…

transcendentman.com

Avoid Tone Matrix if you need to be productive.

Update: The original seems to be down. Try this one: Hobnox

Remember how, in 3rd grade, we used to say “if you look up ’stupid’ in the dictionary, and there will be a picture of you”? Now that we have the internet, we can google ’stupid’ and find out who the collective consciousness has settled on to define the word. Mercifully, the first picture that comes up is not a real person:

Scanning down the list, the first portrait of a real person is this guy:

Hardly a surprise.

I told the missus about my discovery and asked her what picture she thought would define the word ‘awesome’. She suggested the grand canyon or the universe. While not the most creative ideas, solid reasoning indeed. However, they do not approach the awesome that I found:

My son’s guess was ‘a picture of Eeyore?’ Not a bad, but I think Tigger is slightly more awesome than Eeyore.