Archive for April, 2007



  • “I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades” - Demetri Martin (0)
  • Fast Food photo project: Ads vs. Reality (via kottke.org) (0)
  • Context-awareness and machine reasoning gone awry: Google Maps, on getting from NY to Paris. Check out step 23. (0)
  • Pancakes for heroin lovers (0)
  • World-renown violinist Joshua Bell takes part in an experiment at Washington D.C.’s L’Enfant Plaza metro station. He performs for around an hour while the passers-by are candidly observed. Very few people notice the music at all. “…Context matters.Kant said the same thing… Kant argued that one’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments. But there was a caveat… the 18th-century German philosopher felt that to properly appreciate beauty, the viewing conditions must be optimal” (2)