Archives for August 2008:

Aug 31, 2008 12:42 pm | no comments

Three Links About Starcraft

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 [...]

Aug 30, 2008 8:11 pm | 2 comments

Mt. Katahdin and Kayaking

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.

2:08 pm | no comments

Vice President I’d Like to Friend

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.”

Aug 28, 2008 12:37 am | no comments

Dance Party in The Balkans

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 of depressed Scandinavian teenagers who were too [...]

Aug 27, 2008 11:01 pm | no comments

Old News: Poincaré Conjecture

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 [...]