30 March 2009

The best virus ever built

from uncanny-valley.com:
SNOB32 is an AppleScript we've developed that moves the wretched "Comic Sans" font to the trash for you, then emails itself to all your friends. Wash, rinse, repeat -- together we can wipe out Comic Sans for good.

29 July 2008

Mhhhhhh - BARNETTA SANDWICH

Tranquillo Barnetta als Botschafter für Frisco Glacé.
Das Barnetta Sandwich ist der perfekte Snack für Fussballfans – zeitlich begrenztes Produkt bis Ende Juni 08.

Zum Glück gibts das auch noch jetzt Ende Juli - was sollte ich sonst essen ausser diesem Cremigen Vanille und Erdbeerglace zwischen zwei feinen Bisquitböden. Mit Tattoo «Hopp Schwiiz, Hop Suisse» auf der Verpackung.

A Supermarket in California

Allen Ginsberg; Berkeley, 1955

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Walt Whitman

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective.

We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?

(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)

Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.

Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?

Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you leave when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

27 May 2008

29 March 2008

Deutschland ist ein Unrechtsstaat

Haarsträubend was der Schweizer Bankier Konrad Hummler hier in der Weltwoche erzählt...

Aber dann diese wunderbare wie treffende Replik von Daniel Binswanger in Höchstform: Genüsslich werden sämtliche Hummlersche Absurditäten auseinandergenommen. Dafür könnte man ihn mal so richtig drücken - Binswanger rules!

17 March 2008

POSH...

... is not only Beck's wife. It's also a Puzzle Only Solvable by Humans

04 March 2008

I venture to trouble you with the following remarks...

The very first issue of Nature is on the web. Some real gems of scientific english can be found therein.

For example the first ever Letter to Nature from which this post's headline is taken.

07 February 2008

WTF?^^ mate...

This classic shall not be forgotten

Zum auswendig Lernen:

The P value is a probability, with a value ranging from zero to one, that answers this question:

In an experiment of this size, if the populations really have the same mean, what is the probability of observing at least as large a difference between sample means as was, in fact, observed?

aus: GraphPad GraphPad Prism 5.0 Statistics Guide

UPDATE:
hahaa, there is more:
Compare, for example, the statement "The observed differences could occur 5% of the time if the true effect is zero" with the statement "The probability that the true effect is zero is 5%". Not only is the latter statement wrong, it does not match the scientific question, which should be to estimate, at a given probability, the minimum size of the effect. Another common variation is to report "no differences between groups" on the basis of t-tests that check for a difference only between the group means. Nature

04 February 2008

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Grad die zehnte Einladung zu diesem Seich bekommen...

Bin versucht das dort zu submitten.

trau mich nicht... kommt zu oft das f-wort vor...

09 August 2006

Ellen ist die coolste...

Jeden Morgen radle ich den "Ellen Fletcher Bicycle Boulevard" entlang. Eine kleine Neben- strasse in Palo Alto, die schier endlos lang ist und speziell fuer Radfahrerer ausgebaut wurde. Das heisst, es gibt keine Stopschilder und kaum Ampeln aber es ist immer mal wieder ein Pfosten in der Mitte der Strasse, damit sich kein Auto dahin verirrt. Eine Oase im autoverrueckten und Stopschilder-uebersaeten Amerika.
Aber wer ist Ellen Fletcher?
Anscheind ein langjaehriges Stadtratsmitglied mit einer Ader fuers Radeln:
The Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard was the first such bicycle facility in the country when it was created in 1982, and Ellen played a major role in making it happen.
Wer Ellen auch cool findet, kann hier ein, zugegeben ewas langes, Radiointerview mit ihr anhoeren.