Watch this space for my half baked opinions and a collection of amusing things found on the Web. For more serious stuff, read my other blog.Tumblr (3.0; @jmbr)http://jmbr.superadditive.com/“The KISS principle (acronym for “Keep It Simple, Stupid”) states that design simplicity should be a key goal and unnecessary complexity avoided.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_principle">KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></em>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40538260http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40538260Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:32:31 +0200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oboyox3L_MI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oboyox3L_MI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>George Carlin - Some people are stupid</p><p>You’ll be listening to some guy and say: “Well, he’s fairly<br/>intelligent… Ah! He’s full of shit!”</p>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40538092http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40538092Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:30:48 +0200<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1088321&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1088321&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1088321&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1088321">The StumpWM Experience</a> displays the capabilities of <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/">my favorite window manager</a>. <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TheStumpWMExperience">Go here</a> for a higher resolution version.http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40374533http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40374533Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:52:00 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/eBcBG5WFfatfmbwnuNhZ34xA_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Global Thermonuclear War (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tnarik">tnarik</a>)http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40308903http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40308903Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:54:44 +0200“[T]he Web is basically text for people who can’t read”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.zsd.co.za/~lucien/sisters/interviews/interview.php?id=11">Andrew Eldritch - Virgin.net Interview 1997</a></em>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40225364http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40225364Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:49:00 +0200<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/">How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine</a>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40225279http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40225279Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:47:38 +0200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUtOCsE4ws"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ddUtOCsE4ws" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Sahara Hotnights - Walk on the Wirehttp://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40178298http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40178298Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:36:31 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/eBcBG5WFfarsgrt9uzXNNxqs_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40176646http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40176646Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:18:47 +0200<a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2008/06/24/neurociencia/1214332552.html">El cerebro se 'arriesga' con lo nuevo | elmundo.es salud</a>: “El cerebro asigna una especie de ‘bonus’ a las opciones que percibe como novedosas, de manera que tendemos a explorarlas preferentemente”http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40175911http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40175911Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:11:39 +0200“During the Russian revolution, the mathematical physicist Igor Tamm was seized by anti-communist vigilantes at a village near Odessa where he had gone to barter for food. They suspected he was an anti-Ukranian communist agitator and dragged him off to their leader.<br/>Asked what he did for a living he said that he was a mathematician. The sceptical gang-leader began to finger the bullets and grenades slung around his neck. “All right”, he said, “calculate the error when the Taylor series approximation of a function is truncated after n terms. Do this and you will go free; fail and you will be shot”. Tamm slowly calculated the answer in the dust with his quivering finger. When he had finished the bandit cast his eye over the answer and waved him on his way.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2008/06/taylor-series-.html">Taylor Series - a matter of life or death</a></em>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40109195http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/40109195Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:20:00 +0200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZeuPCWnOFc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rZeuPCWnOFc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Millionaire - Champagnehttp://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39945358http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39945358Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:59:52 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/eBcBG5WFfanvbbav8sl5GTes_500.png"/><br/><br/>An ancient MACSYMA session, part of <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/company/scrapbook/"><i>Mathematica: The Scrapbook</i></a> (via <a href="http://anarchaia.org/archive/2008/06/25.html">anarchaia</a>).http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39825462http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39825462Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:27:00 +0200<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7FqUNlEdwA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a7FqUNlEdwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Blonde Redhead - 23 (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/beggars">beggars</a>)http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39767917http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39767917Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:40:58 +0200<a href="http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/">Open Source Computer Vision Library</a>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39705742http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39705742Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:26:05 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/Fi4IQ96lTai5ho4yqQbahuDL_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lemonodor.tumblr.com/post/39311604/dust-devils-on-mars">lemonodor</a>:</p><blockquote>Dust devils on Mars.</blockquote>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39705699http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39705699Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:25:19 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/eBcBG5WFfagb1swa4HieVdcf_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>via <a href="http://lance-systems.com/wiki/futurama-mathematics">Futurama mathematics</a> which in turn came via <a href="http://asymptotia.com/2008/06/17/infiltration/">Asymptotia</a>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39150414http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39150414Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:26:06 +0200mathcartoon<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-098January--IAP--2008/CourseHome/index.htm">MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.098 Street-Fighting Mathematics, January (IAP) 2008</a>: This is the funniest course name I’ve come across. It reminded me of <a href="http://www.turtlepress.com/Fighting_Science_p/99.html">a certain book</a>.http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39119617http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39119617Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:17:00 +0200<a href="http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2008/06/19/writing-deployable-code/">Writing Deployable Code | Loren on the Art of MATLAB</a>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39029553http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/39029553Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:25:35 +0200<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/eBcBG5WFfaeezhwfVYGAVu3Q_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/38976766http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/38976766Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:40:50 +0200<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://jmbr.superadditive.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/38906651/eBcBG5WFfadokza3wCaVhsOT&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid">Arkanoid</a> <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3797">theme</a> remix. More goodies <a href="http://www.remix64.com">here</a>.http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/38906651http://jmbr.superadditive.com/post/38906651Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:21:33 +0200