Oh Hey There
21/11/2008
Hmm…where have I seen this before?
Hoarr wins the AD media/reference/post of the day award.
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20/11/2008
Regardless of politics, why is the Sarah Palin turkey farm thing ruffling so many feathers (pardon the pun)? She was on a turkey farm pardoning a turkey and happened to stand there. She doesn’t care, obvs, about blood and stuff— she skinned caribou. Isn’t this just an example of other people’s squeamishness?
It’s just funny how indifferent she is, talking about her holiday plans while we watch birds being killed in the background. That’s my take, at least. I don’t get the squeamishness. Rachel Maddow had the thing all blurred out which is ridiculous.
Also, I’m mostly reblogging this for the pun.
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cbye:
This isn’t going to end well.llamas are all the rage recently. They’re like the new Penguins!
ALPACAS, COURTNEY, ALPACAS
/farmboy rage
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we're terrible, lol (PUNS GALORE)
- up-schist-creek: "Won't somebody please think of the TURKEYS"
- tristanjay7: "it's just too dedressing for our viewers"
- up-schist-creek: makes you want to beat the stuffing out of her
- tristanjay7: that would be fowl
- up-schist-creek: the public will gobble it up
- tristanjay7: no it would be too _tom_atic
- tristanjay7: fuck that was supposed to be parsed into italics STUPID GMAIL
- up-schist-creek: lol
- tristanjay7: memoirs of a gizzard
- tristanjay7: i win
- up-schist-creek: heh
- up-schist-creek: I'm not sure Palin would agree, but Alaska.
- tristanjay7: i'm trying to watch the video but i dont have the right kodiak
- tristanjay7: juneau what i mean?
- up-schist-creek: I Nome what you mean
- up-schist-creek: we're terrible, lol
- tristanjay7: haha
- tristanjay7: eskimo questions, i tell no lies
- tristanjay7: do you need to get your Berings strait?
- up-schist-creek: haha
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So Sarah Palin refuses to go away.
But, so long as that means she’ll keep doing shit like staging Thanksgiving photo ops in front of TURKEY DEATH MACHINES, that’s fine by me.
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Hey lay off Bill the Butcher!
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plz write
this paper on body and the gaze for me. In Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale, no less. I think it would be really fun for someone to write, other than me.
w00t I just read that the other day.
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What is the diameter of the World Wide Web? The answer is not 7,927 miles, even though the Web truly is World Wide. According to Albert-László Barabási, Reka Albert and Hawoong Jeong of Notre Dame University, the diameter of the Web is 19.
The diameter in question is not a geometric distance; the concept comes from the branch of mathematics called graph theory. On the Web, you get from place to place by clicking on hypertext links, and so it makes sense to define distance by counting your steps through such links. The question is: If you select two Web pages at random, how many links will separate them, on average? Among the 800 million pages on the Web, there’s room to wander down some very long paths, but Barabási et al. find that if you know where you’re going, you can get just about anywhere in 19 clicks of the mouse.
„More from Graph Theory In Practice (Brian Hayes).
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» American Scientist: Graph Theory in Practice
Another collaboration graph has movie actors instead of scientists at the vertices, with the central role given to Kevin Bacon. Because feature films are a smaller universe than scientific publications, the structure of this “Hollywood graph” can been determined in greater detail. If the records of the Internet Movie Database can be taken as complete and definitive, then the Hollywood graph has 355,848 vertices, representing actors who have appeared in 170,479 films.
Brett C. Tjaden and Glenn Wasson of the University of Virginia maintain a Web site (The Oracle of Bacon) that tabulates Bacon numbers. Because the entire graph is known, there is no need to speculate about whether or not it is connected or what its diameter might be. The questions can be answered directly. The Hollywood graph includes exactly one person with Bacon number 0 (that one’s easy to guess); there are 1,433 with Bacon number 1; another 96,828 have Bacon number 2, and 208,692 occupy nodes at Bacon number 3. But because the number of actors is finite, the rings around Bacon cannot continue expanding. At Bacon number 4 there are 46,019 actors, then 2,556 at distance 5, and 252 at Bacon number 6. Finally there are just 65 actors who require seven intermediaries to be connected to Kevin Bacon, and two exceptionally obscure individuals whose Bacon number is 8. (Finding any actor in tiers 7 or 8 will earn you a place in the Oracle’s hall of fame.)
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