January 2010
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Adieu, 2009.
2010, you have a lot to live up to.
December 2009
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Digital Universe Atlas →
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x: it’s scary to see how the disk space gets smaller and smaller for no apparent reason y: you know what would be even scarier? the disk space growing bigger and bigger for no apparent reason. (via MITbash.)
QFT.
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RIP Roebling?
We interrupt the stream of non-personal tumblr entries to bring you this unfortunate update.
So. Because I am a klutz, I knocked a tumbler of tea onto Roebling, my laptop. And now I have no more laptop. Fuck! We opened it up; the RAM and hard drive look all right. Right now, it seems like the problem is with the wireless card, which I am reluctant to try to extract because the only screwdriver we...
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DARPA Network Challenge →
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sent up 10 moored red weather balloons across the lower 48 states. The challenge was to locate them all. The first individual (representing a team) to send in the locations of all 10 would win $40,000.
The balloons went up at 10 am today.
Within nine hours, there was a winning team.
Unsurprisingly, they came from MIT.