Dancing with the Scientists

Posted by Richard Bennett

During this period of hiatus for the world’s finest reality competition, please enjoy the Dancing Scientists: Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube (Science, 10 October, p. 186). By the 11 p.m. [...]

Google is Dead

Posted by Richard Bennett

They don’t know it yet, of course. I’ve just checked the new alternative to Google, Cuil (pronounced “cool”) and found it amazingly accurate. They show me as the number 1 Richard Bennett and the number 1 Bennett. Very sweet, even though I’m only the number 12 Richard; that gives me something to strive for. UPDATE: [...]

Attention Conan O’Brien

Posted by Richard Bennett

Linux inventor Linus Torvalds has a new skit for you: “I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. To me, security is important. But it’s no [...]

Geek humor

Posted by Richard Bennett

Very funny nerdy YouTube, via Dave Winer and Doctor Weinberger. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us