While procrastinating on my taxes, I stumbled across this (courtesy of Bitch Ph.D.). If you haven’t yet seen it, you simply must take a look and wade through the comments. A blog must-read. Could be a classic.
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Cosmic Variance is a group blog by people who, coincidentally or not, all happen to be physicists and astrophysicists:
Our day (and night) jobs notwithstanding, the blog is about whatever we find interesting — science, to be sure, but also arts, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia. We have similar outlooks on many things, widely disparate opinions about others, and will do our best to keep the discourse reasonably elevated.
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April 15th, 2006 at 2:25 am
Excellent find!
I suppose I should say something like:
Best. Post. Ever.
-cvj
April 15th, 2006 at 2:29 am
And gosh….. you started early on your taxes….. Aren’t they due until Monday?
-cvj
April 15th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Clifford, I didn’t say that I had actually started….
April 15th, 2006 at 7:42 am
This “Blogging Masterpiece” exemplifies pure randomness emerging from pure nothingness. Rephrased more succinctly, this “Blogging Masterpiece” reveals the absolute weirdness of the quantum universe. Rephrased yet again, this “Blogging Masterpiece” displays the micro-world of quantumness infiltrating into the macro-world of classicality.
April 15th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Looks like a diminishing-returns principle was at work there. The self-referential post and comments were gems; the comments that only abstracted familiar responses offer a typology of blog comments, but they wore me out long before I reached the end (805 and counting when I visited).
April 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Clifford, I didn’t say that I had actually started evidence for which is that she was reading the linked blog, offering a useful alternative tax preparation strategy.
April 16th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
This is off-topic, but given the topic I don’t suppose that is so bad:
Amazon Mechanical Turk
That Amazon.com would even attempt this is fascinating. I’ll be very interested to see what (if anything) develops out of it.
April 16th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
an “i have nothing to add” comment
April 18th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
An excellent example of creative accounting!