Ironwolf

I now have a Twitter account, so if you want to tune into my ongoing answer to the question “What are you doing now?” then feel free to follow my tweets. The sidebar of my blog now also includes my latest tweets. I plan to keep them to two to three per day, and I’ll […]

U.C. Berkeley has been making many of its lectures available in downloadable audio and streaming video (that unfortunately requires the RealPlayer.) Now UCB is making its lectures available on YouTube, which is a more convenient format for many people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD2144Lbqu4

Here is the first lecture from Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Everyone should know this stuff […]

This test pretty much pegged mine.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be […]

1. Go to Google Maps.
2. Enter New York to London.
3. Receive helpful instructions.

Deep within my earliest childhood memories I have the indelible image of a vague and frightening setting: a featureless room with no doors or windows— floor, walls, and ceiling the same gleaming white grid. In the room a man sits alone with no memory of his arrival, wishing to be anywhere else. People appear and […]

I decided to switch to WordPress for three reasons:

I’m a control-freak when it comes to my web site.
I wanted to better understand the state-of-the-art in web technology.
It’s really easy to install and administer.