Untitled: chartreuse (b) archive 
Mon, February 8. 2010
Our family photo has become popular with the Who Dat Nation, 3,500 views so far just today!
Lord, How I Want To Be In That Number - Super Bowl XLIV - Deadspin
Absolutely amazing.
Thu, February 4. 2010
henna for Eloisa’s back (via darcitananda)
President Truman ended segregation in the armed forces by Executive Order in 1948. Obama should do the same to allow gays to serve openly. We turn this over to Congress, and it’s never getting past the Senate.
Wed, February 3. 2010
The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It’s easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network.
Today, there’s another surprise in store for network connoisseurs courtesy of Maksim Kitsak at Boston University and various buddies. One of the important observations from these networks is that certain individuals are much better connected than others. These so-called hubs ought to play a correspondingly greater role in the way information and viruses spread through society.
In fact, no small effort has gone into identifying these individuals and exploiting them to either spread information more effectively or prevent them from spreading disease.
The importance of hubs may have been overstated, say Kitsak and pals. “In contrast to common belief, the most influential spreaders in a social network do not correspond to the best connected people or to the most central people,” they say.
» via Technology Review
