Billy Corgan, From Smashing Pumpkins to Smashing Heads

The IHop (DIN) in Rosemont, Ill., is a convenient spot for Billy Corgan to meet with Jacques and Gabriel Baron. Corgan, lead singer of the multi-platinum rock band Smashing Pumpkins, comes down from Highland Park. The Baron brothers—Jacques is a used-car salesman, Gabriel a bank teller—come up from Lockport. Corgan arrives in a hunter’s cap with the ear flaps pulled down. He sheds it to reveal his familiar shaved head and plops down an antique turquoise camera. “I’m trying to take more pictures,” he says. “When I don’t do music, I have to do other stuff.”

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The New iPad Makes Apple’s Tablet Domination Clearer Than Ever | TechCrunch

Even if you have perfect vision, indulge me here for a second. You know when you go in for an eye exam and you’re asked to look at a combination of letters and numbers on a chart against a far wall? You read the first few lines, then realize you actually can’t go any further. Then you get prescribed glasses (or contacts) and you can all of a sudden read every letter and number. And even the ones you could read before are now so much clearer.

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Leonard Susskind: New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 5 (February 8, 2010)

Leonard Susskind

Professor Leonard Susskind discusses gauge theories.

What is Gauge theory?

Gauge theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory

Quantum electrodynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics

Maxwell's equations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

Gauss's law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss's_law

Special unitary group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_unitary_group

This New OLED Microdisplay Blows the Retina Display Away

A new OLED microdisplay from MicroOLED boasts the world’s highest pixel density, stuffing an incredible 5.4 million gapless pixels into a 0.61-inch display.

For comparison, at 326 pixels per inch (ppi), the iPhone 4′s Retina display sports 614,400 pixels.

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More Trans Fat Consumption Linked to Greater Aggression, Researchers Find

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown -- by each of a range of measures, in men and women of all ages, in Caucasians and minorities -- that consumption of dietary trans fatty acids (dTFAs) is associated with irritability and aggression.

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Trans fat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat

トランス脂肪酸
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/トランス脂肪酸

Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, MD, PhD

http://divprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty.html

Get Me out of This Slump: Visual Illusions Improve Sports Performance

With the NCAA men's college basketball tournament set to begin, college basketball fans around the United States are in the throes of March Madness. Anyone who has seen a game knows that the fans are like extra players on the court, and this is especially true during critical free throws. Fans of the opposing team will wave anything they can, from giant inflatable noodles to big heads, to make it difficult for players to focus on the basket.

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Jessica K. Witt
http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~jkwitt/

Billy Corgan at South by Southwest Interactive… live blogged

I’m going to try to compile all of our Billy Corgan at SXSWi coverage here… as best I can. Bear with me as this post may through go changes throughout the day. 

Last night, Corgan appeared at Google’s “Android House” at Lustre Pearl, a well known local bar and music venue. Although he was scheduled to go on there around 5 PM, but judging from tweets made at the event he was on closer to 10 PM CDT. Based on the tweets I’m seeing, Corgan made remarks that were critical of the recording industry and promoted his rediscovered love for the album. He was on the ”Google Play” stage, Google Play being the new name for Android Market, which Google is rebranding and rolling out new features for… I’m particularly fascinated by the Google Play Artists’ Hub.

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Allocative Efficiency and Marginal Benefit : Marginal Utility and maximization

Marginal Utility and maximization

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Productive efficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_efficiency

Allocative efficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocative_efficiency

Marginal cost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost

Marginal benefit
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalbenefit.asp

Safari Development Essential Videos - Session 204 - Building Compatible Websites Using Emerging Web Technologies

Safari pushes the web forward by implementing the latest, most innovative HTML and CSS technologies. Adopt these technologies without creating multiple versions of your website to stay compatible with other browsers. Discover how to use object detection …

Talks about

1. Common Coding Pitfalls
2. Fallback Techniques
3. CSS Effects
4. HTML 5 Media Elements
5. HTML 5 Offline Data

Common Coding Pitfalls

Feature Detection

if ('XMLHttpRequest' in window) { ... }
if ('openDatabase' in window) { ... }
if ('innerHTML' in document.body) { ... }
if ('contentEditable') in document.body { ... }
if ('webkitTransition' in document.body.style) { // transitions exist }

HTML 5 Media Elements

Media Queries
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/

HTML 5 Offline Data

Key/value storage
if ('localStorage' in window) { ... }
if ('sessionStorage' in window) { ... }

SQL API for structured data storage
if ('openDatabase' in window) { ... }

Offline application cache
if ('applicationCache' in window) { ... }

Dive Into HTML5

http://diveintohtml5.info/

New Revolutions in Particle Physics: The Standard Model - The Standard Model Lecture 4 (February 1, 2010)

Professor Leonard Susskind continues his discussion of group theory. 

Generators of the group

Singlet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlet_state

Baryon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

Meson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson

Glueball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball

Dynamics


Flux tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_tube

Gauge theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory

Khan Academy launches iPad app with complete library of over 2,700 educational videos

Although there are a few unofficial apps in the App Store that allow you to access content from the Khan Academy, the online education portal has just launched an official iPad app. Available for free in the App Store now, the app provides access to the organization’s over 2,700 educational videos that cover a wide range of subjects from K-12 math and science, to history and finance. The biggest difference between the new official app and those from third-party devs is you can now log in to your Khan Academy account, get credit for watching videos, and track goals and achievements from within the app. The app also provides fully subtitled videos with the ability to browse by subtitle, an enhanced video scrubber, and lets you download videos and playlists for offline viewing.

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Sid Lee

http://sidlee.com/

The Amazing Place - An intimate office where ideas come to life

At the office of Sid Lee, a creative agency located in Toronto's Distillery Historic District, Victorian Industrial architecture mingles with design elements of the 21st century, creating an inspiring fusion of old and new.

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Sid Lee
http://sidlee.com/