I think this blog is essentially dead - other means of self-publishing (Flickr, G+, etc.) have pretty much taken over its role for me. Nothing more to see here, folks.
Apples to Apples
We invented a game to play with Apples to Apples cards.
- Everyone gets a deck of green (adjective) cards.
- Go through your cards, and select ones that apply to the other players, and deal them to that player face down.
- When everyone's done describing everyone else, shuffle the locations of the piles so nobody knows which goes with whom.
- Flip over the cards, and figure out which pile is which person.
Warning: This can be extremely cruel.
Ankh-Morpork's Undertaking
I made an Undertaking (subway) map for Ankh-Morpork, set about 50 years in the future (from canon "now"). I took some liberties with names of places, given the time gap. For instance, Dolly Sisters has become Dollisters, the Whore Pits has become Harpits. Locations are based on the canonical Ankh-Morpork map. Note that the logo is actually octarine - your monitor may not calibrated to display that color properly.
Our public transit system runs on a Poisson process; no matter how long you have been waiting for the train, the probability of a train coming in the next minute remains the same.
Street View
I made a Google Street view timelapse movie of Philadelphia's Walnut Street.
(download)
Erdős-Bacon Number
Daniel M. Drucker collaborated on Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation with Geoffrey K. Aguirre
Geoffrey K. Aguirre collaborated on Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of Blindsight with David H. Brainard
David H. Brainard played the part of Samuel Allison in Fat Man and Little Boy with John Cusack
John Cusack was in Adaptation with Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon
a new game
- think of something banal that new-world-order nuts might believe is part of the conspiracy
- use google to find evidence that someone DOES believe this.
my first win: the offset-printing calibration marks on cereal boxes
ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?
ANOTHER PLANE CRASHES. ARE AIRPLANES SAFE?
in this corner, from the mystery fairy land of Science, we have ACTUAL STATISTICS
and in this corner, we have RECENCY EFFECTS and AVAILABILITY HEURISTICS
ROUND ONE.... FIGHT!
