Category Archives: Linky

OMG, Weekend!

On friday I handed in my last assessment of the semester. This semester has been a particularly crazy one - the first half packed full of outreach stuff, and the second half packed full of catching-up. The last month has been particularly bad, because it was all of the biggest and most important assignments, and […]

Update

assignments imminent -> procrastinating -> joined facebook -> timesink!
In related news, I’m going to try (re)learning afrikaans from facebook. Here is a joke that I just read and understood from the “Ek probeer om Afrikaans te praat…” facebook group:
Die polisie stop vir Mike met ‘n kombi vol pikkewyne. “En waar dink jy gaan jy met […]

Political Orientation and the Brain (And Some Evolution)

This is a timely and interesting link:
Is political orientation wired in the brain?
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s “hard-wired”, but political orientation seems that it might be at least partly related to brain hardware. I wonder which way round the causality goes? If older people tend to be more conservative, and us […]

Lolcats

Some recent favourites:
Halp!
Shoelaces
Legokitty
Conductor MeerkatĀ