Some old links I meant to post a while back but still may be of interest to some…
I prefer my okra less slimy, but to each their own.
Via Erin, A tour of the old homes of the Mission.
Also via Erin, Women and Crosswords and Autofill.
A statistician rails against computer science’s intellectual practices.
Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman is boycotting Nature, Science, and Cell. Retraction Watch is skeptical.
I’m sick today so here are some links.
Click That Hood, a game which asks you to identify neighborhoods. I was lousy at San Diego, but pretty decent at Chicago, even though I’ve lived here for half the time. Go figure.
For those who care about beer, there’s been some news about the blocked merger of Inbev and Modelo. I recommend Erik’s podcast post on the structure of the beer industry (the three-tier system) for those who care about craft beer, and (with reservations) Planet Money’s show on the antitrust regulatory framework that is at work here.
Remember step functions from your signals and systems course? We called them Heaviside step functions after Oliver Heaviside — you can read more about him in this Physics Today article.
Did you know that Pad Thai’s “birth and popularity came out of the nationalist campaign of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, one of the revolutionary figures who in 1932 pushed Thailand out of an absolute monarchy?” Neither did I!
I need this album, since I love me some Kurt Weill. I can also live vicariously through NPR’s list of SXSW recommendations.
I’m a big fan of 99% Invisible, a podcast about design and architecture and… stuff. They rebroadcast a longer piece about U.N. Plaza in San Francisco, and it’s fascinating. I was living in Berkeley at the time much of this went down, and I was semi-unaware of it.
A post from the new desi blog, Brown Town, about Freddie Mercury.
My cousin Supriya has e-books in Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati available. You know, for kids!
My very dear (but not so near) friend Charlotte has a new blog : Mary Magdalene Girl in which she will discuss gender and her un-diasporaing (not a word) by moving to Ireland.
Photos of yakuza. Unrelatedly, construction worker fashion in Japan.
An Ergodic Walk 