Date: 2012-02-28 11:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] naath.livejournal.com
Feeling prosthetics! OMG! Can I have a TAIL yet? (no? wah.)

(It's cool for the use-as-intended too, obviously)

Date: 2012-02-28 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com
As much as I find the hobbit house lovely, and I love the idea of building something in that way (but without the fandom element), I'm rather concerned about it springing a variety of leaks / suffering from landslip / etc in the next few months or years.

Gender-swapped Dr Who Cosplay

Date: 2012-02-28 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
What I'm particularly pleased by is how natural most of those outfits actually look. It makes me think we very easily could have a female Doctor one way or another, even though the show has always had a "Doctor and someone else" vibe.

Date: 2012-02-28 12:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
While it's interesting that 30% of income tax is paid by the top 1% of earners, I'd be far more interested to see what proportion of total income is earned by the top 1%.

Date: 2012-02-28 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com
The most recent US numbers I could find claim the top 1 percent pay 38 percent of all federal taxes.

http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/top10-percent-income-earners

Date: 2012-02-28 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com
If they've pinned down at least some part of the brain chemistry for noticing mistakes (I'm surprised it's that chemically simple), then maybe they'll get a better understanding of why sleep is important.

Date: 2012-02-28 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacelem.livejournal.com
All my work to date has been done with C++ (compiled with gcc), GNU Octave, GNUplot, Bash, and LaTex (and I've also hovered near R). All free/open source software as far as I'm aware. It's been years since I last went near MS Office.

My only failure is using Maple, but I don't know that a (good) free software alternative exists.

Date: 2012-02-28 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kurosau.livejournal.com
That's not a bacon balrog, that's a bacon dragonborn! Jeez, get your geek references right...

Date: 2012-02-28 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johncoxon.livejournal.com
Science is reproducible regardless of the availability of the source code. I speak as someone who has been busily reproducing results without access to the source code since starting my PhD. :)

I think making code available could be useful, but in a world where your worth as a scientist and your job security depends on getting published and getting cited, there's a conflict of interest that is incredibly hard to resolve. What really needs to happen is some sort of method of measuring the impact of released code as well as the impact of released papers.
Edited Date: 2012-02-28 10:15 pm (UTC)

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