Turn your face into a name (via torque). The “quantum pontiff” apparently has long hair:
Google 2001
Take a look at Google circa 2001. Yes that’s right you can search like it’s 2001! Oh my: apparently I was everything and nothing: 2001 Google search for “Dave Bacon”.
Mattress Money
There are many things I do not understand in the wide world of finance, but the one which perplexes me the most is why people believe that their money is safe under their mattress.
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Physics Personified
Physical Theories as Men, a tit for tat response to Physical Theories as Women. Go ahead, you know you want to click on both of them.
Occupational Arrows of Time
One of the subjects of great debate in physics goes under the moniker of “the arrow of time.” The basic debate here is (very) roughly to try to understand why time goes it’s merry way seemingly in one direction, especially given that the many of the laws of physics appear to behave the same going backwards as forwards in time. But aren’t we forgetting our most basic science when we debate at great philosophical lengths about the arrow of time? Aren’t we forgetting about…experiment? Here, for your pleasure, then, are some of my personal observations about the direction of time which I’ve observed over my short life. Real observation about the direction of time should lead us to the real direction of time, no?
(With apologies to Alan Lightman
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Mario Theme….with an RC Car?
Real? I always wanted to design bumps in the road so that vibrations in your car would say something when you went over them…
Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb Across my Head
One of the most amusing things about writing a blog is that people you’ve never met form an impression about you from your blabberings, and then, often, when they actually meet you they are astounded that you aren’t “an old grumpy guy” or whatever image they had in their mind. So, in order to confuse you even more, here are some things which I’ve been reading and thinking about and doing while not working on efficient quantum algorithms for the hidden subgroup problem.
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Transatlantic Communication of a Different Kind
The telectroscope:
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.
Rube Goldberg Advertising
It may take a second to load, but this webpage is pretty darn over the top.
You Versus the Chimp
And they says humans are the smart ones: