Don’t think they thought this one through...

Having apparently abandoned former principles of simplicity and unintrusiveness, Google now punishes account holders by sticking coloured icons next to every Google search result and, worse, animating them on a mouse-over of the result. Obnoxious! There currently seems to be no setting to remove these that I could find, but I figured a way to use AdBlock to hide them away.

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This is a good paper but the choices of variable names are making me sad :(

Ah well... at least sometimes variable names lead to happy consequences. This is from the same paper:

This is a bit of an old video (the “decade” in question is the one before this one) but you should still watch it. I love this guy.

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You should go watch all his videos on the TED site.

This comic has been pinned up in my lab for a while, I love it.

Via spikedmath.com.

Well, I figured it out, so I thought I’d post it. More after the fold.

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Oh, man.

See what I mean? This is just gross... And you know what? All but one (which one? lol.) cropped out the encircling press photographers. What a fucking circus.

I can’t help seeing this image like this — a lone protestor doing something crazy and anarchistic surrounded by a semicircle of a hundred professional cameras — and wondering if this is anything like good journalism. Sure, this event happened. But it sure looks like a stunt for the cameras, rather than an organic protest event. Would this have happened were the cameras not there to see it?

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