Twitter Fail Message

Well, this is a little too honest. When did twitter servers get an attitude?

Geek Graffiti: I love Pi

Saw this yesterday while waiting for the train in NYC. You don't usually see 'geek' graffiti on the streets, so this one really touched my heart.

I love Pi too.

Relevant Picture Parody Galore

While talking to my good friend Danny today I had a flash of inspiration and cooked this up. Let me know if you have any better titles!!

On Productivity

"As I have less work, I take longer to do it"

This is a conversation / insight that has come up a surprising number of times in the last few weeks. Basically the idea is that the level of work that has to be done directly influences how long it takes you to do it. It's a little counter-intuitive, especially since you'd imagine that work X (make two slides) takes 30 minutes, regardless of whether there are 2 or 15 other things to do after X. The length of X should be as constant as gravity or the speed of light, but observation says otherwise.

A Special Theory on Work Length Relativity would then be in order. Observation and anecdotal (and thus highly scientific) data suggests that having very little to do in a given day significantly increases the time it takes you to complete those small, menial tasks. The opposite is true: waking up to a fully-loaded day of work increases your productivity substantially. I think it is because the philosophical 'fire under your ass' has been proverbially lit, thus making a given person work faster than what was thought possible. This conclusion may shed some light into achieving faster-than-light space travel as well, so I'll keep you posted on any future developments.

Picture of the Day

Enjoy. Submit your caption for this gem in the comments!

13 year old corrects NASA's numbers. NASA agrees

This just hit today and will probably be the most talked about story for about 10 minutes, but seems that the calculations NASA made about some asteroid hitting Earth had some faults. The kid in question, from Berlin, took into account the asteroid hitting one of the many satellites around earth, which would make it slow down or bend its trajectory and obliterate us. Thanks kiddo... Details here. (I'm really sorry about picking the same image as every fricking website reporting on this...but there seems to be no pics of the kid in question)

Simpsons Bad For Children. Replaced with Baywatch

This is just too good to be true. In Venezuela, some "unspecified complaints" from viewers led a national TV station to drop The Simpsons over concerns that it was bad for children to watch. They then replaced the show with that bastion of moral decency, Baywatch. From the glorious reporting of Your Majesty's Press Service.

Ceiling Universes

I think this is just lovely


(courtesy of Ji Lee)

A close-up of the scene here

Ji Lee is an artist whose latest project involves decorating ceilings with miniature scenes, anything from disasters to skiing slopes and living rooms.