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Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.
Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.
In her final blog entry, Kristina asks for your expert opinion. The girl needs a new pair of speakers. I think she's looking for something "wicked cute," as they say in Boston.
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Over the past few days, I've thought about what I'd like to say in my last blog entry. I wanted to lend some words of wisdom to audiophiles, but all of you already know more than I ever will about audio components. And so, it seemed, a daunting task lay ahead, until I finally realized that I could make my lack of expertise work to my advantage...for once.
In my time at…
As a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin romances and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Rifles novels, I'm a sucker for this type of collection.
I'm fascinated by how tiny little things affect world history—take the malaria parasite for instance. Forget the Black Death or the Influenza outbreak of 1917, Malaria has had a bigger impact on humanity than any other rampaging pathogen—yet, we still don't completely understand how it works.
That's changing. Live Science has an article and video illustrating how Plasmodium falciparum and its three relatives work. They're really sneaky.
Good Math, Bad Math says phi is more fun. After all, "if you write φ as a continued fraction, it's [1;1,1,1,1...]; and if you write it as a continued square root, it's 1 + sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1...))))."
My buddy Jeff Wong sent this little video along and I initially resisted posting it, primarily because I used to work in a light show that featured strobe light effects (ah, the '60s, I'm told I enjoyed them). We used to create lots of chaos with unsynchronized strobes moving in different planes, so I was blasé about The Time Fountain's reversing time schtick.
Then I watched it again this morning and saw it as a restful interlude with pretty lights and soothing music—sort of a two-minute vacation from your computer priorities.
Plus, it has a cool how-to.
Your enthusiastic response has inspired Kristina to come out of blog-retirement. She could only stay away for an evening. Ladies and gentlemen, it seems she may be hooked. Any suggestions for an amp and CD player?
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So I lied in my last blog entry. It wasn't my final goodbye after all, but the beginning to an interesting process of putting together a nearly-affordable audio system.
Now let's remember that I still need to buy several pizza pies a week, and my budget is limited. However, before I contemplate jumping off a bridge, as the cost…
This time Science News' late-summer science reading list. Lots of good stuff here, and, other than Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds, I haven't even heard of any of them.
Text and photos by Bob Sacha. "Looking beneath a city street is like peeking under your skin: the terrain upon which your well-being depends is so close, yet so full of secrets."