Alexander Wang Fall 2012 Menswear

The street is never far from Alexander Wang's mind. It won't come as a surprise to discover that he street-cast his lookbook model, a skater from Philadelphia. (Nor should it be much of a surprise, given Wang's talent for coming out just ahead of the curve, that after the designer booked him, the modeling agency that had all but forgotten it represented him wanted to send him to Europe for go-sees for the menswear collections.) The point is, Wang's key words are street andsport. His burgeoning men's collection may be more refined than the T line out of which it grew, but it hews close to its original.

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Billy Corgan, 'American Idol': Smashing Pumpkins Frontman Wants to Be a Judge

Simon Cowell may have a new unlikely contender for the vacant 'X Factor' judge position: Billy Corgan. 

Following his March 13th SXSW panel discussion in which he rallied against the artistic business model that 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' have created, theSmashing Pumpkins singer admitted he would still be up for a judges position if it were offered.

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Billy Corgan Tells Off Younger Generation of 'Poseurs'

Smashing Pumpkins icon Billy Corgan isn't impressed with the new generation of 'poseurs,' reports Billboard. The 44-year-old singer -- far from hitting Grumpy Old Man territory -- ripped apart younger musicians during a SXSW interview Monday (March 12), claiming he'd have to set himself on fire on YouTube to get noticed in the music industry.

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Footnote

When I describe "Footnote," you may conclude that it offers little for you. In fact, it's one of the smartest and most merciless comedies to come along in a while. It centers on an area of fairly narrow interest, but in its study of human nature, it is deep and takes no prisoners. Two main characters: The father has devoted his life to scratching out minute inconsistencies in various versions of the Talmud. His son is a great popularizer of Judaic lore, whose books are best-sellers and whose face is often on television.

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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/