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Yeah... I don't see anyone in the media tying his death to his gay, at least. Suicide rates are appreciably higher among gay men. But so is bipolar and some other disorders. So it's no mystery why. (I still think MJ deliberately overdosed... but that's another story for another day.) Nobody's...

Constant pressure to put on a show for other people... But he was really good at it. This was worse than MJ dying, much worse, for me anyway. With MJ it was more surprising that he made it past 40 than that he died at 53. He was one of the few designers who stayed creative over the...

That's another one..why do people steal cell phones? It apparently happens on the subway. At most, the thing cost $200 retail. As soon as you steal it, the person's going to get the service shut off. So all you have is the hardware, which pawns for like $20 max. $40 if it's a blackberry. Not...

I've been doing too many unit conversions. It's 800km, around 500 miles. Not that it matters. This is an excellent idea... I already have large a wooden Mexican god/idol mounted on the wall, and an antique shaman rug of unknown native american origin on another with a picture of a sort of...

It just gets weirder. A few hours after writing that last post I woke up and left, only to find that the person who lives across the hall from me in the same building had a message posted on their door that said: "The [Name of our building] ghost is friends with me too! So back off" Which...

Yes, they should. But so should people who steal my clothes. I really can't figure out who's doing it. Probably my ex-roommate? It's really the strangest thing. I came back from holidays and I've torn apart my drawers and closets looking for things that were prominently displayed on hangers...

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Yeah, I think the people who died got the cutaneous form of anthrax, on the skin, from injecting, which is sad because it's the most easily treatable. It must have spread to their bloodstreams pretty quickly. IMing isn't any worse than any other way, except you may get deeper abcesses if you're...

It doesn't. Anthrax is much more expensive and difficult to find/produce than heroin is. It's about as likely to find its way into heroin as pure gold is. (Unless the Columbians or Afghanis are using the same labs to make both and somebody forgot to wash out the beakers...) Anyway, if I were...

Pretty much...

I went to look at Pitchfork the other day for the first time in years and I was disappointed to see that they're still talking about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Arcade Fire! This is how I like my indie: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param...

That XX track sounds like if The Kills and Interpol collaborated. I don't have to mention that I think that would suck bigtime. There's been some recentish indie stuff that I liked. That Nite Jewel album. Excepter 'Debt Dept' is fun if you like industrial throbbing gristle inspired stuff (I...

Ok, that makes sense. I mostly think that you run the riskk of being able to force the numbers to fit when you're testing qualitative sorts of hypotheses... And can I just say, that video from the other thread with Dr. Luke M. is horrible, facile and outright wrong. "Oxidative stress"? Is...

Computers are going to look awesome covered in moss and algae and whichever oxides ... The Matrix can fucking quote me on that.

I don't think it's going to be catastrophe as such killing everyone, it's just going to be atmospheric conditions eventually becoming counterconducive to all but the simplest forms of life. Maybe some really deep sea creatures will survive if there are waters that stay cool enough, but they've...

Anybody who can't acknowledge that humanity's (and, let's face it, most eukaryotic lifeforms') days are numbered has their head so far up their ass it's probably not even worth discussing with them, really. A period of unprecedented monospeciation has preceeded every other mass extinction--...

No, chi-squares/p values test your data, and the likelihood that such results could have resulted from chance, not the null hypothesis. You can't really test the null hypothesis with a chi square, since the null hypothesis is kind of like a big old nothing. A low p value is in fact a good...

Good article padraig. Dude, you still don't get it. This is not a debate. It was a statement about FORMAL RIGOR, and how social science has less than the other sciences. (Econ being possibly excepted in some cases.) Social scientists often test things that simply can't be quantified as easily...

I'd like socialism to have a fighting chance, that's why I find it disturbing.

People who shamelessly use PR and marketing tactics to promote their own work, then condemn others for doing the same. All while considering themselves the world's most radical collectivists in the process. Why is it that "socialists" are inevitably people with no social skills whatsoever...