Archive for August, 2007
Image and Photo Editng Software for Free
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Recently I’ve had the need to do some image and photo editing, but Microsoft Paint isn’t really up to the job and I don’t want to spend money on something I don’t plan on being good at.
I started of searching Google and found The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). The GIMP is a lot like […]
Human Computation
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007WARNING: The following post is very, very nerdy.
Luis von Ahn, inspired by the clever pornographers that defeated captchas, has come up with some amazingly simple and effective ways to get humans to analyze data that computers can’t… for free.
Next time you feel like playing Solitaire, why not play one of Luis von Ahn’s games?
Seinfeld and Philosophy
Monday, August 27th, 2007In March 2006, I finished reading Seinfeld and Philosophy. This book is terrible. Don’t read it. There are a few interesting points and a few interesting insights, but none of the essays in this book add up to anything interesting. A few essays (most notably, the one on “The Costanza Maneuver”) get so caught up […]
The Mountain
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007On the week of July 4th 2006 I learned to hang glide. Learning was fun. I would get up at 5:00AM every morning to train on the hills until noon. The hang gliders weighed about 80lbs and had to be carried up the hill for each flight. As tough as this was, it didn’t seem […]