November 2007
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“I stopped timing when their pause was long enough to know that they stopped.”
– Anonymous LING 275 student, discussing her Stroop test experimental design
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http://www.google.com/search?q=gibibytes →
I’m totally the fifth hit on Google for “gibibytes”. Now I might go up even higher. I’m gaining on you, Wikipedia!
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MRI Movie
Tomorrow I’m going to have an MRI taken of my head for a speech production experiment. I’ll get a picture of my brain, and will apparently be given time at the end to say whatever I want and have a movie made of it, like the ones on the left side here. USC is one of the few places (the only place?) that are currently able to make such videos; it’s pretty cool.
Anyway, the...
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“On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to...”
– Richard Feynman
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“What is life if you can’t pants your family?”
– Susie
“I wish I got credit for all the times I resisted acting like an asshole instead...”
– Adam
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Google Image Labeler →
I hadn’t seen this before; pretty interesting. Google is using humans to help tag images and improve image search results. And they’ve turned it into a game where you get points, which is actually kind of addictive.
Has anybody tried screen sharing in Leopard yet?
I’ve tried it twice with Adam, and it seems to work seamlessly through our firewalls, which is seriously cool. Any idea how that is done?
The visual quality isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely good enough for what it’s intended for. And we discovered that the minimize-text-edit-window-in-slow-motion-then-kill-the-dock-and-enjoy trick works over screen sharing, too.
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Gibibytes
I just discovered that the df -h command in Leopard (which gives information about disk use) lists sizes using binary prefixes:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 233Gi 104Gi 129Gi 45% /
devfs 107Ki 107Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home ...
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Apple Needs a Nikon →
My feelings about Apple products summed up well by John Gruber:
[…] much of what gets chalked up as devotion to/obsession with Apple is, in fact, devotion to/obsession with great design, and there’s an utter dearth of rival PC or handheld gadget makers that value design as Apple does.
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“I didn’t get started on my homework because I wound up watching a Wonder...”
– Susie (paraphrased). This really sums up my life, too.
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“Porp!”
– Scott Martin
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Kettle People's Choice IV →
Beta test potato chips. Kettle sends you a pack of 5 limited edition flavors, and you vote on the one they should keep. It’s like a reality show where the goal is to get fat. I’d totally do this, except $15 is a bit steep I think.
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xkcd →
xkcd is the best comic in the universe. “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” It’s like it was made for me.
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Daring Fireball →
You can’t call yourself a Mac nerd without reading this site. It also often has a lot of interesting typography- and design-related stuff.
Tumblr
I haven’t updated my blog in quite awhile; it just seems like too much of a chore when there are so many other things vying for my time and attention. I guess the root of the problem is that I feel like I need to write an essay each time I make a post.
So anyway I’m trying out Tumblr, which aside from the silly name is looking pretty awesome and seems like it might be the perfect...