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links for 2010-08-26
Every Doctor Who villain since 1963 A data set containing every doctor who villain. The geekyness is awe inspiring. (tags: doctor_who vast_amounts_of_useless_data) Doctor Who: Every single journey through time A huge data set on doctor who journeys. (tags: doctor_who vast_amounts_of_useless_data)
links for 2010-08-19
Faith and Reason The best argument I've ever seen for god's existence.
links for 2010-08-17
Hacker arrested for octopus virus I'll let this one speak for itself Disease by coincidence – why we’re caught in the crossfire of a hidden war (tags: medicine disease)
links for 2010-08-14
The AFTAH Anti-Gay-Rights Academy: From the Perspective of Two Who Attended, Day 1 of 3 A couple of atheists visited the Anti-Gay-Rights academy and took notes. It's an interesting read, if only to find out what the other side's arguments actually are. [found via Pharyngula] (tags: atheism gay_rights)
links for 2010-08-13
Geek Mind A quiz game to see if you can identify video games from screenshots and cover shots. I'm awful at it, but it's still really fun. (tags: videogames quiz)
links for 2010-06-01
Category:漢字 部首 – ウィクショナリー日本語版 (tags: japanese radicals) 部首 – Wikipedia (tags: japanese radicals) Free Online Game – Robot Unicorn Attack from Adult Swim (tags: flash game) Illustrator: Abstract Vector Art (tags: smashing_magazine vector illustrator) Translation Party (tags: translation) Newest 'flex' Questions – Stack Overflow (tags: flex programming actionscript stack_overflow)
links for 2010-05-31
Simpson’s Paradoxical Card Trick | Curving Normality "ResearchBlogging.org Imagine this card trick. A statistician divides a regular deck of cards into two sets: one of 20 and one of 32 cards. Next, he urges two groups of students to investigate the cards, and hands out one set of cards to each of the groups. Both [...]
links for 2010-05-30
Epiphenom: Protestants tempt fate, but atheists don't! "Apparently, some people think that talking or merely thinking about an event can actually bring it about. To me, that's incomprehensible. When I was young, I assumed that the concept of 'tempting fate' was a poetic metaphor. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that some people take it [...]
links for 2010-05-24
YouTube – Lady Gaga and Sting "Stand by Me" Because this blog is about Lady Gaga (tags: music lady_gaga) The Mongoliad, a “sekrit project” from Neal Stephenson and friends « Lisa Gold: Research Maven "The Mongoliad is a rip-roaring adventure tale set in 1241, a pivotal year in history, when Europe thought that the Mongol [...]
links for 2010-05-23
Talking Brains: Dissociation of mirror system activity and action understanding: Evidence from sign language "To date, evidence from the sign language literature has been less than supportive of the role for the mirror system in action understanding (Corina & Knapp, 2008; Knapp & Corina, 2010). A recent study by Karen Emmorey and colleagues continues this [...]
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