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Beer Can House

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:49:54 GMT

This puts the beer wall to shame. PanamaCitySpringBreak98WHOOOOO! -decker

Kevin Smith? Jon Stewart? Notify BHendrix!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:48:16 GMT

The Adam Carolla podcast discusses some odd behavior from Kevin Smith and Jon Stewart calls in. The stuff about Kevin Smith was surprising. I'd say it's just one side of the story, but they play a recording of Smith's side of the story too. Looks like Kevin Smith is trying to get them together though. -decker

Why Facebook is pushing its horrible timelines

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:04:25 GMT

One theory, anyway. -decker

I really want to hate him but can't

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:14:06 GMT

Jay Leno on his MacLaren MP4-12c If I ever win the lottery, the F1 will be my first purchase. -hendred

Who are these people?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:10:06 GMT

Cool Graphical breakdown of the 1% by occupation. The only thing is that it goes by household, so if a teacher making $40k a year marries a banker making $$$, the teacher ends up on the graphic as well. -hendred

The Buff must love this

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:30:42 GMT

Romney is in the 15% tax bracket.

After speaking to a smaller-than-usual crowd on Tuesday morning in Florence, S.C., Mitt Romney took questions from the press and said that his effective tax rate was about 15 percent.

�It�s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,� Mr. Romney said. �Because my last 10 years, I�ve � my income comes overwhelmingly from some investments made in the past, whether ordinary income or earned annually. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away.�

Mr. Romney added: �And then I get speaker�s fees from time to time, but not very much.�

In fact, in the most recent year, Mr. Romney made $374,327.62 in speaker�s fees, at an average of $41,592 per speech, according to his public financial disclosure reports.

The vast majority of Mr. Romney�s income this year came in the form of investment income, whether dividends or capital gains on mutual funds and retirement accounts, or his post-retirement share of profits and investment returns from Bain Capital, which would be subject to the same 15 percent tax rate.

-hendred

Yea - that doesn't seem possible.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:57:42 GMT

Jump to 50 seconds in to start.

There goes that meme

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:16:01 GMT

The Buff will match all Republican donations to the Treasury. He's going 3-1 on McConnell's donations. -hendred

Let my data flow

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:11:48 GMT

Charts of fatal car accidents. It'd be cool to see in terms of miles driven, but still interesting. The whole blog's worth putting on your RSS list. -hendred

This Week in 'Doctors are... Witch Doctors'

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:25:23 GMT

Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms? and Trials and Errors, about how hard it is to determine causation in complex systems, particularly the body. -decker

His New Year's was a little more hectic

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:34:40 GMT

Yes please

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:27:24 GMT

From JT.

If nothing else, check out the last one

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:19:27 GMT

Great skateboarding photos of 2011 -hendred

Tough to believe these are all real...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:42:30 GMT

Daily Kos hatemail. Communist, etc. Marked no desks just because of language. -hendred

Christmas Chuckle

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:22:17 GMT

Not Remotely Steampunk For those not familiar, Steampunk at Wikipedia. -hendred

Don't piss off the national

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:41:04 GMT

UVM SigEp was shutdown due to a survey asking "Who would you rape?" I guess the real problem was they closed ranks to protect the originator, so the national and school lowered the boom. The comments section is like the internet equivalent of a Rorschach test for the word 'frat'. -hendred

Government consultant time suck

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:37:04 GMT

From will: The 1,000 highest paid civil servants - If you were to sort the list by coolest names, the first one would still be the same.

I'm not too busy for awesome

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:07 GMT

Kevin Pearce went snowboarding.

You may remember he hit his head while training for the Olympics and went into a coma. He had to re-learn how to walk, eat, see, and balance. -hendred the awed

Education Deflation

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:37:06 GMT

Attention Nerds:

Stanford has added a bunch of free online classes. jm and I have been taking the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning classes this fall, and they were pretty good. They were based on their introductory graduate classes. The AI class was pretty watered down, in the sense that there was no actual programming involved, just learning algorithms conceptually. The machine learning was a bit more rigorous, although I suspect it was still a bit watered down since the amount of coding required was limited to filling in some linear algebra, although this was not always easy. The lectures are well done (and done specifically for the online versions of the class, not just recorded in lecture halls), and I would think of it as a reference to various potentially useful algorithms. In terms of time commitment, the lectures take awhile to get through, so I wouldn't recommend doing more than one at a time, along with a full time job. Here are a few more that are coming up for the spring:

Probabilitstic Graphical Models (I'll be doing this one)
Game Theory
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning

There are other available classes listed at the bottom of each one. Not sure if anyone else around here would be interested, but wanted to put it out there. -decker

You know how I know Rick Perry is gay?

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:14:24 GMT

From Nickell: Polega's been dogging this guy for years, and I finally get it. . .

How Doctors Die

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:59:23 GMT

This guy claims that they tend not to opt for expensive, painful, moderately life-extending procedures because they understand the limitations of medicine. It would be nice to see some hard numbers to support his thesis. -decker

am i a xenophobe?

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:37 GMT

From polega: this op-ed captures a feeling that I've head for a while -- that the work-for-visa system in this country is wicked broken. While I have seen H1B visa abuse professionally, I really don't think that the problem is going to get any better by making all those H1B into another type of visa. I do agree with the editor that the main problem is that companies don't want to pay competitive salary.

There's spirited discussion here, if you're so inclined.

Capitalists Don't Like Capitalism

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:17:51 GMT

At it's peak, the Fed made $1.2T in secret emergency loans to banks in need. Meanwhile, the banks were insisting that everything was fine and lobbied against further regulations. They made an estimated $13B in profit off of the loans as well. I'm not a big fan of regulations as the solution, but you gotta let 'em fail if you're not gonna regulate them heavily. And claiming there were almost no losses on the loans (as the Fed does) still does not make them a wise decision, if you are trying to shape future behavior. -decker

Things I never thought about

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:51 GMT

Vintage pics of ship engine builders Got this from Make. Now, of course, I want to see how they make those giant lathes and mills. -hendred

A few chuckles and tears to be had

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:14:07 GMT

XKCD's money comparison chart. Similar to the radiation chart. -hendred

Ken Block's his bitch

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:24:01 GMT

The other American Chopper

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:41:50 GMT

Custom motorcycle built for Cafe Racer tv show

It started life looking like this. -hendred

No one saw this coming

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:54 GMT

Construction at the Austin F1 track has been suspended. This follows Sir Bernie's pronouncement about the state of the relationship between the track owners and the F1 contract holder (who is of course a friend of Bernie's).

Update Looks like they're moving to 2013.

Rise in Android Virus Theats

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:51:35 GMT

This sucks. Maybe Apple's closed system will prove to be the way to go after all... -decker

I guess that's what trying something different gets you

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:00:24 GMT

Community put on mid-season hiatus. It's so 30 Rock can come back, so... hooray? It's been really uneven lately, but it's never boring. -hendred, who wishes the NFL season was longer so they'd make more episodes of The League

Cross-posted to Myface

Please just go away already

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:39:38 GMT

Maine Republicans come back with a voter ID requirement. They got spanked on eliminating same-day registration (Maine represent!), so now they're trying this. Klassy. -hendred

I love it. I hate it.

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:01:27 GMT

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix wrapup

1) Sebastian Vettel isn't human. The in-car camera of his eyes proves it. I half-expected a lizard tongue to come out or his eyelids to blink from the sides. Seriously. It looked like he was watching an uninteresting TV show.

2) The Speed guys usually annoy the crap out of me, but they had some good lines this weekend - check out the comments linked

3) If anyone needs a reason to move to alternate energy sources, just show them the coverage of this race.

4) You know they've got you hooked when you're paying attention to 6th place in the constructor's championship. Buemi's out? Oh no. They'll never make up those points to Force India -hendred

And then the Pats won

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:51:24 GMT

Members of Congress profiting off being in office. No insider trading rules apply to members of Congress. I loved this bit, which tied directly into last week's episode with Abramhoff.

We stopped by the former speaker's farm, to ask him about the land deal, but he was off in Washington where he now works as a lobbyist.

I did like shows where the joke would be that somebody got shot or fell out of a window

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:48:21 GMT

All Bean: Profile of George Meyer, arguably the most important writer/producer to put time into creating Simpsons episodes. A small glimpse into the source of his humor. I laughed out loud at most of this. Note that this was written in 2000. I found this link on a page from Jeopardy Ken's blog that Hendred shared. Speaking of, Ken commented about the current Tournament of Champions, which I decided to watch last night. Holy Schneikies! do they ramp up the difficulty on the material for these. But it was kind of nice to watch the genii struggle...it was like watching the world's best golfers get eaten up at a U.S. Open.

Maybe he'll do Plants vs. Zombies next

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:24:15 GMT

Why Angry Birds is so addictive. -hendred via Slashdot

CMU in a nutshell

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:52:04 GMT

Why students abandon engineering and science degrees so often. I was going to start cutting and pasting, but the whole article is right on the money. -hendred

It's just like a MacBook Air, but with an unstable OS

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:04 GMT

This Lenovo Ultrabook looks pretty sweet. Although, as I'm typing, my 6 month old personal laptop is going through the Windows Recovery Manager for the 2nd time in a month due to a display driver problem, so I'm wondering if I'll even want a Windows laptop by the time I'm ready for a new one. The Lenovo has a 20 second boot and 7 second shut down, 0.59" thick and under 3lbs. -decked

Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:04:01 GMT

The threshold for being in the top 1% dropped 16% from 2007 to 2009. The Pee Drinker lets everyone know. It's back to where it was in the 2004-2005 era, not adjusted for inflation. Or a factor of 2.47 from 1987 levels, compared to 1.82 for the top 50% threshold.

I wonder if he's challenged Warren to a fight in the cafeteria yet. -hendred

Why the Government Won't Force Mortgage Write-Downs

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:54:17 GMT

Because they'd end up paying for it anyway. -decker

And DTS is the poorer for it

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:11:47 GMT

Google Reader is doing away with the Share functions Instead they're going to be linked to Google+. Decked was the only person I got regular Shares from, but if he shared something and I found it interesting, it almost always made it to DTS. Also, the boxes on the side are populated out of our Shared items, and it's not entirely clear how those will fare. So relish the contrast between them while you can. -hendred, who fears this change

Known Unkowns

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:50:23 GMT

New Scientist lays out what it believes we know and don't know about climate change. -decker

Dear Apple

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:11:43 GMT

Why the F is it that when I download a podcast directly to my iPhone, I cannot find that podcast until I power it off and back on, at which time all of my other music and podcasts are made unavailable to me until the next time I sync with my laptop? This has been going on for what seems like a year. Plus that podcast that I tried downloading in October 2010 that had problems downloading, you can take it off my downloads list now, because you have given me no way to remove it. Thanks.

Sincerely,

decker

Fantasy Buggy with a $250 prize

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:07:10 GMT

From Swift: I don't know what the mood on buggy is around here these days, but we designed a fantasy buggy game and we've got a $250 "win yourself a ticket to carnival" prize. The game is open from now until next friday, with winners determined based on rolls during homecoming (Oct 29th). It's not as easy as it sounds, you've got to pick either a freeroll or backhill segment from each org rolling.

Confusing Stocks and Flows

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:16:13 GMT

I think I've discovered a cognitive error regarding the NBA lockout. In a recent BS Report, Blake Griffin speaks to Simmons about the lockout, and makes an anology about the NBA's position. He claims it's like someone came into your house, stole all your stuff, and is offering to give back only some of it. But it's not like the NBA is trying to repossess the salary that's already been paid out.

I wasn't going to point that out, but I heard David Alderidge, a reporter, make a similar claim on Tony Kornheiser's show: "It's the fact that they [the owners] want to take back a lot of the money that they've given these players". I wonder if these are just poorly worded phrases and anolgies or if they really think of it this way. -decker

Sort of a DTS favorite

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:35:36 GMT

Lego Rubick's cube solver goes faster than a human. Pretty nuts. -hendred

It's like her baby

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:48:25 GMT

The other Big Short

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:27:54 GMT

Groupon's got some red flags. Their IPO's coming up. -hendred

Grey skies are gonna clear... ah, fuck it

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:52:42 GMT

Birth rates are down since 2007 They're a hair lower than 2002. The per-capita trend was interesting.

Pa Hendred passed along some charts explaining why the rich are going to get eaten.

The NYT did a bit more concise version. -hendred

Welcome to the next tech frontier

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:52:51 GMT

Should a 3D modeling/printing website allow deadly weapon models. I guess someone has create detailed printable models of AR-15 parts. If you've got a chance, check out the rest of the web site. A lot of cool stuff being done with this. -hendred