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The Impact of an Octopus Can Potentially Change Your Artistic Trajectory

Complete Title: “The Impact of an Octopus Can Potentially Change Your Artistic Trajectory” It hasn’t happened to me, mind you, but it could. It could happen to any one of us. Think about it! And where will we…

January 16 2012, 7:24am

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I Love Being Right

Me in 2008: “…this new view of the network as the computer is a binary view, problematic because as software engineers still tend to do, the solution takes the user into account second and not first. A user-first…

June 9 2011, 12:40pm

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The Deduction of the Value of Fame!

Consider this most basic of deductions… All men are mortal Socrates was a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal. We can update this simple logical framework to prove that fame is totally awesome: All men are mortal Socrates was…

February 26 2010, 2:13am

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Five Years Old

Wow! Banapana is now officially five years old, the first post (being titled as much) happened on January 13th, 2005. I was stunned at the New Year’s that it was really 2010. 2010 was a year beyond the…

January 13 2010, 10:50am

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Top Ten Albums of the Decade

Given that I haven’t posted here in about a month (hard at work on top secret projects elsewhere), and given that I’ve not much IQ in storage today (a general disposition that occurs at the end of every…

December 19 2009, 8:59pm

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Should the University of Louisville Library Stock Video Games?

There was a recent survey on my campus as to whether the campus library should keep video games on hand. In the comments section, i wrote this (with sincerity) Aside from the obvious reasons to do this, there…

November 17 2009, 1:47pm

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Look Ma, I’ve Made Science!

I recently returned from a beautiful trip to Amsterdam where for four days of my ten day trip I was conferring with cognitive scientists at the Cognitive Science 2009 Conference. I am very proud to say that a…

August 14 2009, 12:27am

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An Open Letter to Senator Mitch McConnell

Health Care is not a Gambit Honorable Senator McConnell: Health Care is absolutely the wrong issue for Republicans to stand against. The cynicism shown by Republican leadership–to frame the issue of health care as an opportunity to hurt…

July 21 2009, 2:21pm

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Chrome OS Breeds Metaphors and Debate

I’m going to do something I don’t often do on this blog and that is jump on the blogging band-wagon that is the discussion of the Google Chrome OS announced today. From MacWorld to the Washington Post, Google…

July 8 2009, 3:15pm

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