http://maxent.org the maximum entropy organization Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:09:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wordle.net is a little online toy that takes a chunk of text, finds the most common words and makes a "word cloud" out of it, with the most commonly repeated words being bigger and so on. Very fun and nerdy waste of time. I popped over to Project Guttenberg and ... http://maxent.org/?p=71 From launch to landing, I witnessed it all! Went over to the coast to see the launch 15 days ago, saw the International Space Station and Endeavor go over last night (Endeavor had already undocked and trailed behind by about 10°) and I just heard the double sonic boom as ... http://maxent.org/?p=70 Here's my list of some genuine 2008 candidates with the best names. This was inspired by a post in another forum from a guy who was having issues with Barack "Hussein" Obama because of his name, despite overall liking the guy because he was cool and liked to play basketball ... http://maxent.org/?p=69 OK, sorry, my one super power is the ability to close my eye when the shutter of the camera clicks. I have a different picture with my eyes open, but Gigi the Cat is not in it and she's cuter than me anyhow. I painted the banners this afternoon, just ... http://maxent.org/?p=68 "Blu-ray's emergence as the format of choice is now inevitable," Steve Beeks, president of Lionsgate films, pronounced on Monday at CES 2008. I disagree. As I've provocatively maintained for years now, both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats are locked in a death spiral that will ultimately lead to the failure of ... http://maxent.org/?p=62 OK, this isn't brilliant, but I'm trying to shoot more video and POST stuff. So, yesterday afternoon, I shot this for the Republican Debate on CNN: Damn! 30-seconds is not a lot of time! Especially when you MUST include your name, hometown and some context. I really wanted to rant about ... http://maxent.org/?p=61 As very few of you might know, for some years now, I've been selling DVD Warning splash screens that I made myself that content creators can use on their videos and DVDs. In a good week, I was making $15 doing this, which meant that this Website was actually paying ... http://maxent.org/?p=60 OK, so this is becoming sort of a boring bird blog of sorts. Sorry. I'll try to be more interesting in the future, but at least I'm posting! I've figured out the whole eagle thing (almost). I don't know where they nest (yes, it's a pair), but I do know ... http://maxent.org/?p=59 Here's a shot of a Pileated Woodpecker in my backyard. They are fairly common around here during certain times of the year. Very loud and not very shy, they seem to like Magnolia Trees. Oh, I also had a Barred Owl in the yard last week - heard them many ... http://maxent.org/?p=57 Photos from our August 2007 Boundary Waters Canoe Area trip with my dad and cousin David: svgallery=0807-BWCA http://maxent.org/?p=56