digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Google_Suggestions_Should_you’;Google is really funny sometimes, mainly because it provides an unbiased algorithmic mirror of society. While chuckling about people that find my blog by asking google 20-word complete sentences, I was going to run a search, for the sheer irony of it, for “Should I search with complete sentences?” But the [...]

This video is pretty much everything I want to be able to do with nature-related timelapse photography. Unbelievable.

Not even humor is safe from analysis by those pesky evolutionary biologists. Apparently sarcasm is an evolutionary survival skill. Well that explains a lot!
It’s easy to imagine how sarcasm might be selected over time as evolutionarily crucial. Imagine two ancient humans running across the savannah with a hungry lion in pursuit. One guy [...]

Recently I’ve been playing around with a pretty cool software package called Apple Motion. Follow that link and check out the intro video to see the kind of professional graphics it can produce. One really impressive trick that it can do is to stabilize shaky video. That’s what we’re going to be [...]

Finally, some competition for TinyUrl! TinyUrl provides one of those services that is so useful that you slap yourself for not thinking of it first. You give TinyUrl a long web address, like “http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/” and they shorten it. The way they shorten it is to generate a unique code which they store [...]

This video needs to be shown to every science classroom all over the world. Please pass this along to as many people as you can, especially if they are teachers.
Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution [...]

During the recent Twitter outages, I checked the Twitter Status Blog a few times. I noticed that it was running on a platform called Tumblr, so I investigated a little further. Here, I plan to explain what Tumblr is, why its creators think it’s useful, what you can do with it, and what [...]

I can’t recall the exact path I took through the internet tubes to find it, but I recently became aware of the immense library of free music available on archive.org, the Internet Archive. They have an incredibly long list of live music performances. There’s a special section just for Grateful Dead bootlegs.

This is one of the most interesting articles I’ve read in a while. It’s taken me all weekend to get through it all, but I’m already more conscious about each step.

Every once in a while a computer application comes along that ends up saving you hours and hours of time over the period you are using it. For the Mac, a good example of this might be Quicksilver. For a developer, it’s an IDE that does extensive refactoring for you. I do [...]