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alice in wonderland

Tim Burton is directing Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland (2010).
how am i always the last to find out?! this is gonna be aweosome!!!
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1951 - Disney’s animated film
2010  = 145 years later
i truely love this material, i hope tim burton can live up […]

teenaged mutant ninja…

tortoises!
tauruses!!
toruses!!!

datamining is dryer than these fucking alpha-bits

and i dont have any milk

and here i thought i was being productive

so far i have been working on this genetic algorithms assignment for 9 hours today. i’m almost done and *i* thought that i was rather productive…
the adage is true though, all we are are bit-pushers in this digital age. i am no exception.
it made me think though… exactly how many bits have i pushed? bytes […]

the smell of the season

this morning marked kingston’s first day that officially smells like winter! (and yes, i am somewhat of an authority on the subject) if you were up and about outside this morning – provided you don’t have the sniffles – you probably know what i’m talking about. and dont try and tell me that a lack […]

i just read an article describing the difficulties in attempting to label our nuclear waste sites in a way that will stand the test of time. i have to admit, they were very creative when coming up with their scenarios for failure: “feminist corporations that disbelieve WIPP warnings because they were written by men”, and […]

we live in cognieval times

the period before the singularity / introdus / collective-consciousness. the time before whatever comes next…

i am scienstitious about gravity…

that is why i stand ʎɯ ǝʇsɐdɥʇooʇ

dungeons & dreidels

if you’ve ever tried to “roll” a d4, you may have noticed that tetrahedrons don’t. besides, who doesnt like spinning their dice?
i foresee an entire new genre of roleplaying games… and i like it.

bill-c61: the canadian dmca

the day has finally arrived. i had hoped we might have been able to avoid it altogether, but bill-c61 is here. the initial analysis by the internet’s favourite canadian copyright lawyer michael geist indicate that the bill even worse than than our neighbours-to-the-south’s infamous dmca.
but it is not yet too late! this bill can still […]