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This sees like a big deal to me, but it doesn’t seem to be getting much play in the media. It appears that the Bush Administration has paid at least three columnists to endorse the No Child Left Behind initiative. There is a summary article on Wikipedia and an article on on CNN.com. [...]

CNN/Sports Illustrated has an amusing set of quotes from various NFL players on what it’s like to be on the bottom of the pile after a fumble. The common threads? Testicle grabbing and eye gouging:

“I don’t know if people really want to know what goes on down there: Basically anything you can’t get away [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been swimming 2000-3000m a day, most days. I haven’t been a serious swimmer since about 1998, but for the 15 years or so before that, I was a fairly serious competitive swimmer. I had assumed that the basic procedures for swimming in a laned pool would [...]

I was in Zurich this past week, working with Tobi Delbruck at ETH Zurich on gaze tracking. I took some pictures while I was there. The last one is a giant panorama that I tried to take from the lakeside.

This is the followup book to Richard Feynman’s anecdotally autobiographical “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” and it came out in 1988. I last read it in high school (probably around 1993) but I received a copy of it this past Christmas, so I decided to revisit the book. I am quite glad that [...]

I just returned from a training tour to Spain with the Cambridge University Water Polo Team. We stayed and played in Calella, training two hours a day, plus a match with a local team. It was great fun. We took a day trip into Barcelona as well (about an hour away). [...]

The story follows in parallel three storylines: a World War II cryptographer, a World War II marine and a modern tech entrepreneur/hacker who is the grandson of the cryptographer. In some ways, Stephenson is defining a new genre of fiction that specifically appeals to the modern technophile. I enjoyed the book, but I [...]

It is important that the drinking game for the greatest movie ever made not fade into obscurity. So, here it is, The Big Lebowski Drinking Game (courtesy of whoever’s page it is that is now gone but that was cached at The Wayback Machine):
Rules:

The beginning of the movie: Entire cup or beer
Dude smokes pot: [...]

I have been assuming that PDF and Postscript are the file formats of preference for viewing scientific documents online, but it appears that I have been wrong. The format to use is definitely DjVu (pronounced “déjà vu”), for the following reasons (many of these are ripped off from the site):

Smaller file size
Total font portability
Integration [...]

I’ll save the discussion of the erosion of the idea of citizen into consumer for another day. In the meantime, consider what I see as an interesting and logical conclusion to this change: political change through consuption. ChooseTheBlue.com and BuyBlue.org are two sites that categorize various consumer goods and service vendors by political [...]

If you’re like me, you might’ve been wondering what the Bush Administration intends to do with all of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, who have access neither to the civil or military court system. Well, they finally have an answer: lifetime detainment. The Department of Defense has asked for $25M to build a [...]