desideratum

Cute. I just listened to the rest of her songs, and they’re pretty damn good. Maybe I’ll buy her CD’s off iTunes.

Ok, this kind of makes me want to get one… even if only for the live-action videos of the person in the mongoose suit teaching you how to use the Wiimote + Nunchuk.

This isn’t really news, but it’s good to see that social network analysis is being more visibly formalized in the scientific community. I enjoyed the reference to Granovetter’s “Strength of Weak Ties” (albeit indirectly) and Kossinets and Watts’ “Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network” (requires free registration to view full text).

Now that I think about it, analyzing how common ground is established through Facebook in my Info450 class at Cornell could have been taken so much further… que sera.

(Tangentially, here’s a Wikipedia article on lazy reason because it’s currently on my mind.)

Aha! Proof that you’re the weird one for NOT gaming!

… and with a whole new slew of features!

It takes your zip code, a query (e.g. brunch, lunch, lobster, etc.), and returns for you a retro-looking spinny wheel that picks where you should eat lunch for you. Take that, decisions!

There are way too many good top10’s here to wrap my head around.. so here’s the list of the.. lists.

This could be very helpful if you’re doing last-minute shopping, and want to make sure you won’t be spending hours driving all over the place dropping off gifts in order to pretend you hadn’t procrastinated.

Finally! I was waiting for something like this. This is along the lines of the idea I had to better doctor/patient interaction via online system. I’m talking about being able to schedule appointments, check on test results, and ask your doctor a question every once in awhile from online. Wouldn’t that be novel?

A Facebook news-feed’ish application for all of your social networks, huh? Sounds like a plan!