June 2013
2 posts
May 2013
2 posts
April 2013
3 posts
Disc golfers now must pay to play in Madison parks →
host.madison.com
When the two disc golf courses open this spring in Hiestand Park and Elver Park, players will have to pay $5 a day or $40 for an annual pass, according to a news release from the Madison Parks Division.
Talkwalker Alerts →
talkwalker.com
I just found out that Google is also killing off Alerts as well as Reader. I never really used Google Alerts, but this site sounds like it’s a viable replacement.
March 2013
5 posts
Open Culture →
openculture.com
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.
Brain-to-brain interface lets rats share information via internet →
guardian.co.uk
In the final test, the scientists connected rats on different continents and beamed their brain activity back and forth over the internet. “Even though the animals were on different continents, with the resulting noisy transmission and signal delays, they could still communicate,” said Miguel Pais-Vieira, the first author of the study, in a statement. “This tells us that we could create a workable network of animal brains distributed in many different locations.”
February 2013
5 posts
The Songs Dave Erwin was Hired to Silence →
wcmcoop.com
Every weekday from noon to 1 pm, for the past two years, citizens have gathered in or outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol to express their dissatisfaction with the Walker regime, its policies, or anything else that bothers them. Informally known as the Solidarity Sing-Along (SSA), the event is the longest sustained musical protest in American history.
“FT @transhuman: you cant have infinite infinities consist of nothing, b/c they won’t propagate, they have to consist of something - relative to the one.”
—http://snek.us/WsrBJB
January 2013
8 posts
Paul Ryan: What Stupid People Think a Smart Guy Sounds Like →
vice.com
At its core, Paul Ryan’s appeal is simple: He’s what stupid people think smart people sound like. MSNBC’s commentary after the vice presidential debate in October captured the narrative pretty well: “It was Scranton Joe vs. Think Tank Ryan. Heart vs. head. via Pocket
