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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
June 29, 2009
Category: Carnivalia
I was remiss this month and didn't have anything of substance ready for the Carnival of the Elitist Bastards, partly because I've been busy in the shadows preparing a few items of Elitist Bastardry to last the ages. The current,...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I noticed a while back that the video recordings from Walter Lewin's introductory physics lectures are available via the Internet Archive's movie collection, which means that they can be embedded in the Blogohedron. Click here to open a transcript of...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
And you know what that means — time to wake up, see whose last names you can remember, and figure out how to dispose of the alcohol left over from the night before! The ne plus ultra of scientific drinks...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:19 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2009
Category: Video
Sir Ian "You can call me Serena" McKellen instructs us how to change a car tire.
Posted by Blake Stacey at 8:38 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2009
Category: About this Blag
While I'm away, amuse yourselves with a new AlpineKat rap video.
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June 14, 2009
Category: Astronomy
Spotted on the BBC website, under the headline "The truth about Roswell?" There is a lunar quality to the landscape of New Mexico which seems somehow appropriate for a state which is our portal to the heavens. It is here...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:25 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 11, 2009
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Visit #135,970 logged by my blog's SiteMeter account (a more-or-less arbitrary index) was for someone in the Sidney-Pacific graduate dormitory searching Google for {getting laid at mit}. Well, I suppose if Google can find you everything else. . . ....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Access
"Pubget: ze search engine for ze PDFs from ze life-science journals, yes." I've said on occasion that the surest way to convert a scientist to a fervent Open Access advocate is to lock them for a week in a place...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 2:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Software
I'm glad to see that the procedure has been spelled out. To become rich very fast by writing books, you have to take these steps. 1. Start writing novels on your computer. Write fiction novels since they take the least...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 2:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 10, 2009
Category: Open Access
Fed up with being spammed with invitations from Bentham Science to publish in their journals, Philip Davis decided to do something about it. Using the SCIgen programme, he created a random, content-free computer science paper, "Deconstructing Access Points": The synthesis...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 4:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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