1. A writeup about Starcraft and the community portal SC2GG.com in Escapist Magazine, a gaming/digital culture e-publication. The author identifies himself as an English-speaking, American-born Chinese “artist’s soul living in an engineer’s mind.” Which probably explains why his article seems to accomplish what I tried to do earlier on this blog. At one point, the (More…)
Took a day-hike yesterday with my friend Bryan on Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park in Maine. Kayaking photos are from Bryan’s camp on a lake and marsh near Lee, Maine. In the marshes at sunset. Nearing the summit on Katahdin.
You know, like on Facebook. Apparently somebody registered VPILF.com 2 years ago, and I bet you equally appropriate t-shirts (Yulia Tymoshenko anyone?) will be out faster you can say the word “sexism.”
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Got wind of an electronic outfit, Alaska in Winter, and took a listen to their debut album Dance Party in the Balkans. The title is a little bit confusing, because this could only count as a “dance party” if you were above the Arctic circle with a bunch (More…)
Ran across a New Yorker writeup on the story of how Grigory Perelman proved the Poincaré Conjecture, a math problem that has been unsolved for about a century, and is something like this decade’s Fermat’s Last Theorem. This article was in a book–Best American Science Writing of 2007–that I randomly plucked off the bookshelf of (More…)