Three gals kicking ass
Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:07 PM by Will Femia
"Senior Italian military officers hope the experience of
being humiliated by Miss Wakabayshi will toughen up their soldiers." It's actually about a 77-year-old Japanese grandmother martial arts instructor.
This is probably fake but your daughter doesn't have to know that when you show it to her.
This is another gal performing
a pretty amazing feat of athleticism and I'm pretty sure it's not fake. It's also pretty clever. For all the times I've seen opposing escalators I never considered spinning on them.
Speaking of performing tricks, this guy
shares his parkour workout.
The Lego secret vault has
every Lego set ever.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
- Y'know how sometimes you read something and realize you better
understand it because there's going to be a wave of follow-up material?
I got that feeling with this month's Wired magazine and this article in
particular. It's not really long enough to qualify as a Commuter Click
but it took a lot of pausing and re-reading for it to really sink in.
The best take-away sentence: "With enough data, the numbers speak for
themselves." The idea is that there's so much raw data and processing
power out there that the old method of taking a bit of data and forming
a model to test a hypothesis is becoming obsolete. In fact, it sounds
like forming a hypothesis at all is becoming obsolete to using powerful
algorithms to recognize trends in data.
British Police in High-Speed Chase ... With UFO'When John McCain was my captive' - I have to say first that I think this guy is pretty bogus with his claim that there was no torture in the Hanoi Hilton and he had nice polite chats with the inmates. That said, the idea that McCain's captors are alive and well (and dancing) and watching him from afar is pretty amazing. I wonder if anyone dared to show this to McCain himself.
The most cited George Carlin tribute I saw yesterday is this "
YouTube Obiturary."
NOTE: No bleeps in this. Full bombs from the seven word menu. (Plus some gestures.)
"Marine ecologists have predicted there could be as many as
18 unknown species, with body lengths greater than 1.8 metres, still swimming in the great expanses of unexplored sea." The idea is that the rate of discovery has remained consistent and there are a lot of places in the ocean we have yet to look. I have no idea how that comes down to the number 18.
What the heck is Neave Television? NOTE: I didn't see any unsafe content but there's a lot of random stuff here so who knows what it could pull up.
Don't miss the games menu.
How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand - In essence the suggestion is that the bad English spoken by non-native English speakers isn't bad English but evolving English. The focus here is on how English is spoken by the Chinese, which may not seem to matter until you read a line like this: "An estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice."
Hitler released on parole - An amazing tidbit of history from the NYTimes archive. If you don't have a NYTimes account there's a grab of it
here.
Speaking of Hitler and "if only" I also read this
funny little fiction script about communications between time travelers. Everyone kills Hitler on their first trip.
I wouldn't say that
Rex's Microfame story is compulsory reading but section 5, "Ally," describes a lesson that is worth understanding and provided me considerable relief when I finally figured it out myself. The lesson, in short, is the power of the digital social clique. Friends who link to and treat each other like celebrities give the impression to outsiders that they really are celebrities.
