Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-8-2009

[andrewducker]

• trailer for Transcendent Man
  The Ray Kurzweil story
  (tags: trailer movie Singularity raykurzweil)
• Why The Smartest People Have The Toughest Time Dating
  Not all pearls of wisdom, but a couple of good points in there
  (tags: psychology funny relationships sex culture)
• Romantic trick tattoo to stay
  A story made of so much fail that it's almost not true
  (tags: funny tattoos EpicFail)
• Firefox acheives 100% market share in more than 14% of the continents
  Huzzah!
  (tags: funny Firefox)
• Demystifying the Natural Logarithm (ln)
  This, and the previous article (about e) finally explained a couple of things that school totally failed to. Bastards.
  (tags: education mathematics maths tutorial e ln logarithm)
• Japanese voice actresses attempt to sing punk songs
  My ears! They bleed!
  (tags: funny japan wtf music punk)
• Two Angry Camels in a Car
  Because that's why YouTube _exists_.
  (tags: video camels)
• Real Books That Look Like Photoshops
  I can't believe that some of these are real...
  (tags: funny books)
• Kutiman - Thru You
  An album put together from samples of YouTube videos. Worth watching one or two.
  (tags: video music youtube mashup)
• The Linear RPG
  Possibly the simplest RPG ever. Funny too.
  (tags: funny games parody rpg)

Comments

[zz]

i was trying to get my head round logarithms and e and whatnot the other day, with the help of wikipedia among others, as i never learned about them in school. probably due to hiding in my room for most of my a-levels.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm really quite sure some of those aren't real books - as sure as I am that some are, having seen or owned them...

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Well, there's real books and real books - at least one of those I know is vanity-published on lulu or blurb or one of those, as one of my mates has bought it. you can have anything on there!

[andrewducker]

The couple I googled turned out to be real. But I didn't check them all.

[martling.livejournal.com]

Knitting with Dog Hair is not only real, it is written by Wren's cousin.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't actually wondering about that one since Erin once owned Why Paint Cats. But there are a couple that looked obviously altered.

By the way, are you free on the 28th to come to my birthday, or will you be off having your own celebrations? I had an idea which you would be my first choice to be of great help with.

[andrewducker]

But there are a couple that looked obviously altered.

I think you overestimate the photoshop abilities of the cheap artists that produce the covers for niche books :->

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason why I should be being paid to do this stuff.

[andrewducker]

Yes! You really should!

[andrewducker]

You off today? Or did they finally get you access to the intertubes? And LJ, which I thought was blocked?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I came home due to no intertubes and nothing to do without a puter.

[martling.livejournal.com]

Would love to come but I'm going to be in Reykjavik that week.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

On tattoos, have you seen http://hanzismatter.com ?

[amberite.livejournal.com]

The smartest people may have the toughest time dating, but I hold that this is because "dating" is a procedure not designed for finding one's intellectual peers.

I have social contacts in both highly educated/self-educated and less educated/self-educated social groups, and the people in the second group tend to date more, but they also tend to find fewer healthy long-term relationships.

heron61, teaotter and myself are a success story (I almost typed sex story - brain, what are you doing??) of a non-dating model for relationship formation. In fact, most of the brainy types I know who are in long-term relationships met partners through interest-based friendly social activities like gaming groups, writing groups and the like.