The brain and the cosmos, like the Internet, are networks, and they evolve the same way.
Six or seven years ago I sent my friend Nick a gift subscription to an outdoors-life-type magazine as a gift. But I signed him up as “Fierce Ballshaver”.
Nick has children now, and still receives junk mail regularly addressed to Fierce.
The nimble elegance of discovering something brand new.
(Source: iraffiruse, via jonprins)

Dougie model!
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Jonathan Coulton - “First of May”
I get so excited to post this every year it’s kind of stupid.
Yeah this is the best. Happy May day everyone.

Patent no. 2431242, 2012.
Electronic learning synapses.In fish and in humans, brains learn by trial and error. And now we can add a new species to Darwin’s list: the computer. This algorithm-and-circuit innovation eciently mimics the way the mind functions, learns and evolves over time. And could help us understand the world in ways we can’t yet begin to comprehend.
Today we are all this little boy falling asleep while eating a chicken nugget in the First Class section of a plane flight from Cancun, Mexico to Baltimore, Maryland.
(via tastefullyoffensive.)
This is American as hell.

Camping this weekend. Been preparing the beard. Gonna need the warmth evidently.
This is pretty good. Frustrating but funny 500 error page by @angellist.