A new project we're working on will be launching shortly.link » tags: [tools] permamark in: Wists

I've been reading an unhealthy amount about entropy lately, and one of the best explanations of something that was confusing me is in Roger Penrose's new book, which doesn't shy away from the math. One normally associates a high entropy thermodynamic state with randomly distributed matter within a system. The opposite is true for large bodies where gravitational forces mean that the highest entropy state is where matter aggregates e.g. in a black hole. Except that the ultimate aggregation of matter, the big bang, must have had an extremely low entropy state, so I am still confused.link » tags: [entropy] permamark in: Wists

TagCloud launches. Looks pretty cool – creates tagclouds from an RSS reading list. One more component of 2.0link » tags: [tools] [wists] permamark in: Wists

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Blogebrity is obviously a fake, but even though that that is fairly widely known, it still spreads. A magazine that launches it’s site as part of a competition to create the best meme, where the only content not ‘coming soon’ is a list of the people most likely to help drive this particular meme, bloggers, oh cummon. The wonderfully sarcastic strapline, worthy of Andrew Orlowski “isn’t it about time that someone talked about bloggers” will make any blogger gullible enough to believe it, regret having been so vain. Regardless of the scam, Blogebrity is really, really interesting: it’s a weblog with ZERO content which has grown faster than almost any other. This is not a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes, here the Emperor knows he is naked but the people cannot see it. Strip away the graphics and rearrange the content and what do you have: A two column…

Imagine if someone sailed up the Hudson and made off with the Statue of Liberty's crown. The marble frieze, hacked from the Parthenon, Greece's greatest treasure, is 'owned' by the British museum. And now, a moron of a judge, (vice chancellor Andrew Morritt) has ruled that: the British Museum Act – which protects the collections for posterity – cannot be overridden by a "moral obligation" to return works known to have been plundered. " In effect this means that museum pieces are protected by the law, even if the law was broken to acquire them. It means that museums can receive stolen goods, something which is illegal for everyone else. This creates a moral justification for the Greeks to plunder the UK at some point in the future, I guess. But it gets worse. This ruling was based on: Four drawings that "were stolen from the home of Dr Arthur…