I’d expected Top Gear’s China visit to be a bit uncomfortable to watch since seeing the trailer. And in fact, yes, it was a bit uncomfortable/cringe‑y.
When you’re scientifically literate, the world looks different to you. It’s a particular way of questioning what you see and hear. When empowered by this state of mind, objective realities matter. These are the truths of the world that exist outside of whatever your belief system tells you.
One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, discussing “If I Were President…”
MIA’s new video for Bad Girls is so cool.
The song will have to grow on me, but the video — visuals, choreography, cars — yes.
Intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair by Jenine Shereos | Photos by Robert Diamante
Retrieving Documents Deleted by iCloud
So that was…weird. I just watched all of my Numbers documents on the iPad being swallowed by iCloud right before my eyes. Went to iCloud.com to check, and they were gone from there as well.
My first plan was to turn off document syncing on the iPhone to preserve the copies there, hoping that I can then plug it into my Mac and retrieve the files through iTunes. But even though I had Numbers disconnected from iCloud, and it had explicitly asked me if I wanted to keep the ones that were already on my iPhone, the app still deleted my documents (exactly like this).
I then went into my Library folder on my Mac to see what backups may be there. Initially I thought I could maybe extract some files from the backup iTunes made when I was updating the devices to iOS 5 back in October. But then I came across ~/Library/Mobile Documents, and oddly and thankfully, the files were still there. So after some quick web searches and extension changes, those files are now back on iCloud and my iPad.
I’m now hesitant as to whether I should let Numbers continue to sync with iCloud. On one hand, iCloud does sync an extra copy to my Mac, which has proven to be useful this time. But on the other, I think that Mobile Documents folder was supposed to reflect changes on iCloud ASAP. So if this sort of thing happens again, it’s possible that there won’t be copies on my Mac by the time I check. Hmm…
Was curious how McLaren managed to do a smooth nose while everybody else so far have humpy ones, so I took the official press pics for MP4‑27 and F2012 and adjusted them to the same scale based on tyre size. Obviously I can’t accurately trace the bits that are blocked from view — the lip underneath the nose on the McLaren and the step and winglets/prongs on the Ferrari — so I just took a rough guess using photos taken from other angles.
T‑Rex Trying To Jump Rope…
(This one’s for Jane, age 9. Tell you brother, Hugh, he has a cool name!)
Our first real look at the Mass Effect 3 story.
Wonder if EDI is — in Halo speak — going rampant.
Also: Martin Sheen sounds, as ever, so awesome. If they throw in Donald Sutherland as well, I’m definitely gonna cum.
Put a message in a bottle, and toss it out to sea.
I’m going to miss those mutant sidepods on the 26. They looked cool.
Also: wish McLaren had stuck with silver rims.
Mitt Romney actually reminds me of my Advertising and Marketing Communication lecturer. Just superficially, appearance‑wise. Don’t think he’s backwards like all of this rounds’ Republican presidential hopefuls. I’d trust him with America more than I’d trust the Republican Party with America.
