November 2011
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“A birthday card that sings ‘Happy Birthday’ to you — that birthday card has a...”
– Physicist Michio Kaku on Moore’s Law.
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“Merced then found itself on the one hand with too many homes and no buyers who...”
– Abandoned McMansions make pretty cool dorms in Merced
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“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will...”
– “since feeling is first”, e.e. cummings
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“SIR – Thanks for the story nine years ago on the benefits of office clutter (“In...”
– A letter from Australia. (via theeconomist)
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“The older men and the lonely men, which seemed to go hand in hand, raced through...”
– The Letters Project: Voices from Both Sides of the World’s Oldest Profession
Yelping with Cormac: Taco Bell →
Financial District - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
And so the man defied the villagers and ate the taco. In defiance of the will of those people but also in defiance of some order older than he. Older than tortillas. Than the ancient and twisted cedars. How could we know his mind? We are all of us unknowable. Blind strangers passing on a mountain...
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Geometric visual hallucinations, Euclidean... →
The results are sensitive to the detailed specification of the lateral connectivity and suggest an interesting possibility, that the cortical mechanisms by which geometric visual hallucinations are generated, if sited mainly in V1, are closely related to those involved in the processing of edges and contours.
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