Heartless Bitches International.

Why don't they like nice guys? 'Cos they are all witches. That's why.

Seriously, it's an interesting thesis, but I don't actually believe the central 'nice guys are all insecure and needy' idea.

Second law of thermodynamics "broken".

I'm in two minds about this one. On the one hand, the 2nd law was only ever a statistical law - Entropy can decrease, it is just that it is vanishingly unlikely to happen. So unlikely, in fact, that in practice it never does. But there is no reason why a special set of circumstances, like the one set up by the researchers, shouldn't work in a different way.

On the other hand, Holy Shit!

Update July 24th: BBC coverage. The idea here is that at molecular scales and over extremely short periods of time, the 2nd law doesn't necessarily hold - this is the Fluctuation Theorem. The Australian team has now demonstrated this experimentally. There is no implication for large scale physics, but nanotech might have to take account of this effect.

I have come across The Official Ninja Webpage before, but I lost the URL. Found it again on SubAverage. It's a small net, after all...

Building GUI Applications with PythonCard and PyCrust.

Looks interesting. I've not tried PythonCard. Most of my GUI building is in Java, and it's a pig. Anything to make it easier can only be a good thing.

The seperation of the GUI logic from the GUI layout can only be a good thing. If it works, that is. Layout managers can be a royal pain (especially if you have to write your own to get the layout that you want), but they are powerful. For example, making resizing work they way that you want it to work relies of this level of control.

Jaguaro.org's One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately is an interesting list.

But there are some good albums listed - The Police - Synchronicity, Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Dave Brubeck - Take Five, John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Tori Amos - Under the Pink, Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.

Well, I like them.

And does anyone actually have Celine Dion - Colour of My Love?

(Via SubAverage)

The Heavy Metal Song Title Generator.

Via The Ultimate Insult.