IMMINENT DEATH OF USENET PREDICTED, FILM AT 11(!1!)
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 11:43 AM on June 13, 2008
or maybe it's just a bellwether of HappyNet
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 11:52 AM on June 13, 2008
The set of items linked by blahblahblah are only those on display on the first floor of the MIT Museum (the new Mark Epstein gallery); here's the list of the full collection of Shannon items held by the museum. The Shannon-Thorp wearable computer is currently on display at the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, as part of their exhibit on numbers and gambling.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 10:10 AM on May 6, 2008
Richard Primack and Abraham Miller-Rushing at Boston University have been developing the Nature's Calendar New England project for the last couple years; here's a lecture they gave on their project last February.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 2:49 PM on January 27, 2008
The Brookline Tab's inane blog is particularly fixated on these. I heard someone giving directions in Cambridge that included "go past the building where the turkey lives" (by the Kendall Square Marriott).
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 7:31 PM on October 24, 2007
Ok, so who's in for a turkey-hunt (bows and arrows? popguns? cameras?) meetup in Kendall Square or on Washington Street?
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 9:49 AM on October 25, 2007
i has a bukket -- you has none
invisible deth i see --
no no! -- not even u can take --
bukket away -- from me!
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 8:49 PM on October 18, 2007
Shock!! Horror!! Some twenty-something librarians are JUST LIKE some other twenty-somethings!!!
Seconding nax above, especially on the salary breakdown; the NYT $51k figure covers the entire career spectrum, including senior administration/management; entry-level, like the folks in the article, is likely to be closer to mid-30s.
Is there a librarian's drinking club in the Boston area?
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 7:11 AM on July 7, 2007
The soy sauce haptic interface.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 6:08 AM on June 14, 2007
I still have Woodward's hand-sewn quilt of the flags of all the former soviet republics from 2000. Good lord, I'm glad YouTube didn't exist then.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 8:04 PM on May 18, 2007
Brookline Booksmith posts weekly notes about things found in books in their used book cellar.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 9:49 PM on May 10, 2007
Chrischris, there was some work done a couple years ago teasing out the explicit connections to adaptations in Cherokee music -
Heth, Charlotte. 1992. Cherokee Hymn Singing in Oklahoma. Festival of American Folklife :95-97. as well as here and here. Somewhere tucked into the back of my Harp is a copy of New Britain with the words written in Cherokee.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 1:42 PM on November 6, 2006
The bridge is usually referred to as the /Harvard/ bridge, or the Mass. Ave. bridge, not the MIT bridge. Anecdotally, this is because MIT students structurally analyzed it and gladly ceded any naming rights, although the chronology doesn't really work out (the bridge was built while the Institvte was still on its pre-1916 Boston campus near Copley Square).
In the 1920s, it was so badly deteriorating that it was referred to as the xylophone bridge; a popular student... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 2:32 PM on September 9, 2006
Kibo is calling for emails of support for his candidacy for this fight, even though he didn't quite meet the frequency/time period of requested criticisms.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 9:32 AM on June 16, 2006
Holy synchronicity, comrade, I just got Comrade Rockstar out of the library yesterday. Some (pretty awful) lyrics and mp3s can be found on this German tribute page. "A Pair of Scissors is particularly horrifying, and I love the earworm-quality "shoobedoo" refrain of Elizabet.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 10:21 AM on April 29, 2006
tristeza, me too. Although I always thought Carolyn was an incredible teacher.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 11:44 AM on April 18, 2006
All of you who keep saying that you're lamed-vovniks should know that, if one recognizes he is one, he instantly dissolves in a shower of dust.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 1:08 PM on April 10, 2006
nebulawindphone, I lived in (alas poor departed) Woodward. Change ringing on the carrilon right next door every Sunday morning, plus the occasional fractal/mathematical piece... talk about tintinnabulation!
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 3:20 PM on March 22, 2006
I just got out of a class Dennett guest-lectured in; he was reveling in the controversy and chuckling over the seven or eight responses supporting him that are scheduled to be published in the NYT.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 3:26 PM on March 7, 2006
The Sweariest Man Alive!!
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 4:29 PM on February 16, 2006
Maybe he thought the guy was a killer rabbit.
posted to MetaFilter by nonane at 4:57 PM on February 12, 2006
