Science & Code

• Felix April 25, 2009

  Cognitive mechanisms exploited

  General

  I just saw this almost one-hour talk of Andy Thomson on the American Atheist 2009 convention. He presents several mechanisms that make humans in some way perceptive and vulnerable to religious thoughts — brilliant!

  (via Atheist Media)

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• Felix April 23, 2009

  New logo

  design

  I’ve been trying to re-design this blog for some time now, but a recent visit to logopond got me thinking — why not start by designing a logo?

  Here’s my current favorite:
  

  

  Pale in comparison to some of the genius found on logopond, but still good in my opinion. The balance is a bit off, maybe I’ll put everything on one line instead of breaking in between. Or I’ll scrap it. Judging by how other attempts went, that’s quite possible.

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• Michael April 11, 2009

  What up? — Wordle.

  Culture

  I could never get my head around this phrase, especially since MacFarlane et al proved that bird ≥ word. Nevertheless, I have found a funny application while browsing through the blog of a fellow researcher here in Tōkyō. The programm Wordle reads the content of a website, news-feed or whatever information you supply it with, and creates a nice picture that resembles the content of a website.

  Since it is possible to filter out words that are common to one of the many supported languages, this thing is like some kind of buzzword-to-picture transformer. Well I like it and here is the result for S&C.org.

  Read Nadia’s blog here.

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• Felix April 2, 2009

  Pickles & Atheism

  Chomsky is my beer-buddy, Culture, General, Science

  The love of Jesus transforms you into a stinking, smoldering piece of green pulp? Now that changes everything…

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• Nano

  Nano recommends…

  Chomsky is my beer-buddy, Culture

  Death to the cartoon heterosexual paradigm!

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