Further Link Dumping

Because the neighbors’ wireless is functioning well, finally.  Who do they think they are, expecting me to keep paying $0 for a mediocre service?  Verizon should start piping in our own internets tomorrow.
1. This should not be inspiring.  But it is.  “Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it!”
2. The Gaussian copula, the [...]

Crazy Things

1. Counterproductive craziness- I always suspected that tinfoil hats actually help the government/aliens to infiltrate your brain.  Now a study by electrical engineers at MIT confirms my suspicions.
2. So crazy it must be satire, and actually is- Obama is Literally Hitler.
3. Bridges made entirely from the roots of living trees.  Elves must have been involved.
4. [...]

Mini Biographies

1) The Great Zucchini: How to make six figures while working two days a week with a high-school education. Plus: the dark side. Great reporting/writing.
2) A Profile of Andrew Sullivan: I knew from his blog that his life, both personally and intellectually, was interesting and a bit contradictory; but this story truly makes [...]

Some Ideas

1) A big list of unsolved problems. Doesn’t seeing them like that make you want to solve them just to check them off, forgetting the benefits to humanity and the Nobel prize?
2) A debate over complicated, abstract ideas carried out by hundreds of people over decades. Sound hard to understand? Its not [...]

More links

1. Darwin- very gradual change we can believe in.
2. Political Truth in Advertising- What would Obama and McCain look like if they wore NASCAR-style uniforms celecrating their sponsors?  Something like this.
3.  When companies mock their own customers.  Brilliant, though Hipsters do get it a lot.
4.  On Role Models and Their Bongs. A little late to [...]

Happy Links!

1. Thirsty animal pictures.
2. Folk song about the economic crisis.
3. Unscrew America.  Changing lightbulbs is happy and exciting!
4. Yankee/Rebel Vocab Test.  I was surprised to see how localized some words I used are, and more surpised to see some words are used at all.  The test is pretty good; the one problem I found is [...]