Digital Think Tank

Last.fm is a very cool site that makes a graphical profile of your taste in music.

“Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler system, a music engine based on a massive collection of Music Profiles. Each music profile belongs to one person, and describes their taste in music. Last.fm uses these music profiles to make personalized recommendations, match you up with people who like similar music, and generate custom radio stations for each person.”

The plug-in works behind the scenes so that you not aware that you are building a profile, but yet, every time you play a song, it gets logged on your personal page, and eventually a profile gets built. Very cool!

Also, it’s a good way to discover new music. Clicking on a song gives the overall statistics for it and the top fans. If you go to their page, it’s possible to see their profile and check out what bands they listen to.

Check out my Last.fm profile.

A great collection of quotes/slogans/I don’t know what to call them!

Slogans

Particularly relevant for my current resarch activities at The Norwegian School of Management:

• Plagiarism is copying from one source; research is copying from two or more.

Other good ones:

• Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
• It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious (This one reminds me of the everything-proof windows in the Hitchhikers Guide trilogy).

And finally, for anyone who has spent countless hours debugging code:

• Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.

Thanks to Julia for the link!

A bunch of MIT students got together and wrote a program that generates computer science papers, complete with graphs, figures and references. Having generated a paper, they submitted it to a conference taking place in July in Florida and got accepted!

Their website features the generator, so that you can make your own random CS papers, and their correspondence with the organizers of the conference.

Great fun!

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

They even made BBC News.

Thanks to Ottar for sending me this!

This is an excellent short film by Nacho Vigalondo.
7:35 in the morning

The song lyrics to the song may be found here.

Also, I figured out the guitar chords:
Verse and chorus: E B D A
Bridge: B A B D

Bill Gates poses for Teen Beat 1983! This is a MUST SEE!!!
Bill Stikes a Pose (via BoingBoing)

Everything is going digital! I found this on BoingBoing. Go pop some bubblewrap and get into the holiday spirit!