Nixiepunk! Three electrodes and the truth!

• In the Guardian: Without this equation there would have been no internet
• What does “ELV riser” stand for? Physicist John Baez explains.
• Improper anonymisation of the NYC taxi data dump
• Solution to Twitter Harassment Gaffe -> Link Notifications
• I think I saw “Battlespace Awareness, Assured C2” and “JBAIIC – Seal Team 8 Architecture” in the Huntsville airport
• WHOOOO NONEQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS RE-PRE-SENT!
• on the ubiquity of ADE classifications [1] via [2]
• Internet + amateur photography = telescope
• As close as I get to romance: Apparently a paper I coauthored was cited in a study of online dating. Alternate punchlines: “looking for citations in all the wrong places”; “damn, they take evopsych seriously—that’s a dealbreaker.” (ZOMG you guys “women state more restrictive preferences than men and contact and reply to others more selectively” is an EVOPSYCH PREDICTION!!)
• “They know how to [comfort the afflicted]”. Fixed that for you, Will!
• Better forecasts of El Niño
• “the L. Ron Hubbard of the Fuck You, I Got Mine set”
• 1,500 letters by medieval European women
• Time for a roundup of stereotypes in this week’s social-science reporting! In other words, Friday
• “Everywhere continuous and nowhere differentiable” knocks the socks off “always winter and never Christmas”
• Cards against Humanity creators apologize for and remove “Passable transvestite” card
• Tanker paves over part of the Mystic River #everett
• Look what’ll be coming out on my birthday: ATLAS SHRUGGED PART 3: SPEECH WITH A VENGEANCE
• epic: Rejected Princesses
• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 has been greenlit. Idea: make the witches like those in Madoka Magica.
• Analytical computation of the epidemic threshold on temporal networks
• “when the war doesn’t cost us $2t, people are going to remember that the next time you talk” —Megan McArdle, 2003
• Damn. Why can’t my country have doctoral regalia like Finland’s?
• Today I made a joke dependent on fact that “banlieue” shouldn’t be translated “district” [1] [2]
• Maybe we shouldn’t use the same word for cookiecopters and for flying military killbots
• Wind Power and the Smart Grid
• Milwaukee bar constructs fake Brazilian slum for yuppies to enjoy the World Cup in
• 1961: [1] 2014: [2]
• Because nothing says “well-regulated militia” like shooting off your own penis #MostUnkindestCutOfAll. (Fortunately, guns are already accustomed to serving the role of phallus replacement.)
• “Elsevier even sued one university…to set a precedent for blocking the release of bundled subscription terms”;
• And, of course, the study which prompted that news item is paywalled
• “With Top Gear it is three rich, middle-aged men laughing at poor Mexicans. Brave, groundbreaking stuff, eh?”
• Danger Mouse is coming back!