Boundless Philadelphia :: gophila.com – The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia – things to do outdoors in Philadelphia!

Deja Vu – WSJ.com Why didn’t they imagine that more people might want to fly? How can I not ignore those opportunities? “The giant airplane of 300- to 400-passenger capacity, while technically possible,” wrote a U.S. aviation official in 1944, “appears to offer little economic advantage and to involve a great sacrifice of convenience for…more

Wiress driver for PC at home

Martin Seligman on God – the idea that God is the culmination of infinitely increasing complexity in the universe, based on Robert Wright’s Nonzero. “A process that selects for more complexity is ultimately aimed at nothing less than omniscience, omnipotence, and goodness. Omniscience is, arguably, the literally ultimate end product of science. Omnipotence is, arguably,…more

Creative Generalist – “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” –Frank Herbert

At the dump

It turns out that getting married means you end up with a lot of duplicate stuff, plus a lot of new better stuff comes to replace your old stuff. And since there’s not a lot of people clamoring for my old pillows, half-empty freshman year notebooks, and broken chairs, off to the dump we went….more

Mixing Memory : Coolest… Experiment… Ever – “Eight out of fifteen direction-givers failed to notice that the person they were talking to changed in mid conversation!”

The Mystery of Picasso – Google Video – timelapse of Picasso painting; fascinating to see when he takes something normal-looking and twists it!

RSS-Merge – php script (magpie) to merge rss files