Tracking back the links...
Ok, I didn't care much for Dangermouse's Jay-Z mix, but I like this one...
[There used to be a link to the Beastles mix here, but it is gone now]
Which lead to some reading about the mashup on the Fleetwood Mash band. And the history of the mashup.
More mashup links here.
All of this courtesy of blogdex.
Blogs are networks. This is the key:
"The real-time visual processing performed by insects, as described by Tom Daniel in his PopTech lecture this fall, is just one example of how efficiently biological systems can crunch data."
Provides a password for logging onto news sites that require a password to read them, like the New York Times or LA Times.
Reposts links from a bunch of blogs, sorted by popularity. A good way to get a list of what people are interested in during the day.
Apparently you can use mathematics to find patterns in just about anything, including relationships. I often wonder if I am a mathematician and I don't even know it. I often intuitively find patterns in items of entertainment... movies, television shows, books, computer games... I get bored very easily if one of those items fits the patterns I recognize. I haven't diagrammed it out but I can grasp it intuitively. I wonder when the culture will shift-- when a new algorithm will come around to replace the old ones and the things that keep us distracted in the world are replaced by something new and more complex...
How I got here:
