Sat 2008-05-10 
Yesterday, at work, I was creating a couple of structure diagrams for a document I was producing, and it occurred to me that it would be nice if there was a web-site you could go to to get palettes of colours that look good together. Well there is: COLOURlovers. It does for colour combinations s what Flickr does for photos.
Tue 2008-05-06 From a comment by Johnathan Feinberg on a post at the Vetta Project blog:
... Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Tue 2008-05-06 From a BBC radio program I overhead this afternoon: Peter Hook, of Joy Division, talking on the about Love Will Tear Us Apart:
... You'd have to say that it is full of poetic technique. What it isn't full of is detail, there's just these wild abstractions, very much a young man's poetry. You never get a cup of bovril in an Ian Curtis lyric. ...
Mon 2008-05-05 Chad Orzel has been discussing physics with his dog again:
I look in the rear-view mirror. She's standing on the seat, wagging her tail and looking pleased with herself.
"Oh, God," I say. "Don't tell me you ran out of quantum physics books, and have started reading about relativity."
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Sat 2008-05-03 From a comment by 'Frank' at the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog:
As for libraries, ever heard of E-books? I foresee the rows of books being used for amusing random walks over information space.
I say put all the books on-line for research, and display only a random sample of the physical collection for book-sniffing breaks. The latter should change monthly and be accompanied by a free hot latte.
