This used to be me

I love cruising blogs. It was a long time ago, but it is good to see some attitudes don't change.

Gallery of Computation | generative artifacts

So, this is just plain cool. In my past, I used to muck around with this stuff, but it was never as elegant as the Gallery of Computation generative artifacts. Interestingly, I used to look at generativity, but mostly looked at generativty as a feature of human language. A feature that separated it from other forms of communication, especially other animals. It is exactly this sort of synchronistic relationship that made me enjoy it so much.

The Nicsperiment

The Nicsperiment. this is just interesting because he be from BR too and I just happened across him "next blogging."

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager

This is the COOLEST damn think I've seen in quite a while when it comes to dynamic visual display of inforamtion.

LSU! 

Long Live the KIng! 

Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

So, amazingly enough, it is time for the Fifth Annual Weblog Awards. You should vote. I might. I just enjoy the links to all of the interesting blogs. What could be better? There are certainly better ways to spend my time . . . or not.

Me and Puck

You Are the Investigator

5 You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does. Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations. You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it.

Social Network - Thefacebook

So I ran across this site when I was reading this article. I think this is tremendously interesting. I'm not sure exactly why, but I feel that the rapid adoption of the site somehow means something. Especially since most of the news about it mentions that it is a great way to procrastinate. If there is one thing that we can all use, it is another way to procrastinate.

A problem: you need to register. You need a university e-mail address. You can tell them you are an alumnus. If you are an alumnus, then you probably don't have a university e-mail address. Then you can't register. I may give them a bogus e-mail just to see if I can sneak in.

Another artifact

A presentation that I couldn't save, so I link it into my blog

Hello World

Hot Legs

So how cool is Hello. I'm afraid it is pretty damn cool!

A guy I know

We are a brooding sort. Excellent example of a personal blog.

Search for Public Schools - School Detail

Search for Public Schools - School Detail
I just wanted to be sure I remembered this site and this one when it comes time to put my site together. I hope that is soon.

A New and More Meaningful Existence

Maybe. I've started a new blog with a specific purpose. This one meanders and is for me. If you read it, I'd guess you wouldn't really come back. I wouldn't. The new one is all about Reading First. If you want to know what that is, go there. We'll see how it goes.

I'm going to miss this guy

I see no reason to get a Saturday paper anymore.

I love this, although I can do without the pathetic neener, flushing, I wanna be first like a 4 year old comments.

An Opinion on Open Source

Generally speaking, I am a fan of open source projects. Of course, this is most hypothetical since I really use next to no open source tools and or projects. I've just been OK with the tools that I have which have mostly been determined by where I work - I'm basically agnostic. Or perhaps, just so apathetic that I don't care to spend the time to push for change. I happened to run across this post that sort of captured a general feeling that many people who are not technology-phillic have about open source. People just want their technology to work, they don't want to work on their technology.

Clear Pictures of How We Think

Clear Pictures of How We Think. This is just a bookmark for me to read this.

How to Fold a Shirt

How to Fold a Shirt. Only on the internet.

Hundreds of Iraqi Insurgents Killed

This story and others like it disturb me simply by the use of the word insurgent. I find a hard time thinking of the actual residents of Iraq who are opposing their occupation as insurgents. I mean it makes some sense, but in another sense the US were the insurgents, but they moved from the barn to the house and the rest of the residents are on the outside looking in - just like they were before. This is a not a well presented point, but the word insurgent has been bothering me so I just had to get it out.

Open Letter To The Democratic Party: How You Could Have Had My Vote

I find this post and comment chain very interesting. I was very glad to read it, because it does seem to have touched a nerve with many of the commenters. More interesting to me was the uneasy feeling that I got reading it. This was captured for me in the comment by Running Dog. Search for it in the rest of the comments. I find it to be even more compelling. Better written than what I would have said - something struck me as fearful or timid in the original post. Sort of being afraid to vote because of some feelings. That is my problem with the whole political process - too much emotion, not enough rational, logical thought. I think Kingsley gets it right for me.