Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

It's a reinterpretation two-fer from Rocketboom!

Macy's Thanksgiving Imperial Death March
All Children Love a Parade

Perhaps the ultimate NY Times restaurant review

When we're next in NYC, I think I would like to not go here.  In fact, perhaps we should make a special trip, just so we can miss it. 

Street with a View

There are some who see the Google Maps "Street View" feature as privacy infringement, of the "You can see my Cat, sitting right in my front window" variety. But, at least one small community sees it as an opportunity.

Mental Health break

OK, time out for a cat video. 

Now back to work!

the universe makes a lotta gas

A sweet posting from a JPL research lab's secretary.

Copper clapper caper

An oldie, but a goodie.

Building the Emerald City

Courtesy of The Morning News, a weird and wonderful photo series of a miniature recreation of the Oz story.

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957

One of the classic hoaxes, this BBC "documentary" showed plucky Swiss villagers harvesting the bumper Spaghetti crop of 1957 from their carefully-tended orchard of spaghetti trees.   It was introduced to the US a few years later when Jack Paar aired it straight-faced on the Tonight show, only admitting to the gag a few days later.

Election Night, 11/3/2008

Obama for America campaign photographer David Katz shot some wonderful behind the scenes photos of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their families watching the election results come in from their hotel room in Chicago.

Dance your PhD

The entries in the 2009 AAAS Science Dance Contest (a.k.a. "Dance your Thesis") have been posted.

Much that I liked "Precipitation Initiation in Warm Clouds", it and "The role of folate in epigenetic regulation of colon carcinogenesis" suggest that future competitions may need to invoke the "No Dying on the Ice" rule.

"You named your collaboration QAP? Really?"

The things a research team must do to satisfy their funding agency's requirements....

 

 

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"You named your collaboration QAP? Really?"

via MetaFilter by fatllama on 11/5/08

The DiVincenzo Code [youtube trailer, geekery]. Faced with a strict demand from a funding agency to allocate research funds towards the dissemination of research ideas to the public, an experimental physics group at the University of Oxford produced a feature-length (55 min) action thriller about murder, ancient prophecy, tea breaks, and quantum computation.
[Trailer linked above. Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6]

Named after the most basic requirements for a functional quantum computer, the DiVincenzo criteria [pdf], the student-directed effort is a superposition of The Da Vinci Code, The Matrix, and a live-action PhD Comics. Perhaps best viewed with either popcorn or your lab-mate's stash ofThorlabs Lab Snacks.

 

 

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