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I am currently a first year graduate student in computer science at Cornell University. I did my undergraduate work at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, and grew up in Omaha, NE. This site is a collection of things I find interesting. View all posts by bsowell →

The Current Song of the Day

January 9, 2007Asidesbsowell

The Current Song of the Day. The Current is my favorite radio station.

MacRumors Infrastructure

January 9, 2007Asidesbsowell

A description of how MacRumors handles the spike in traffic during the Macworld keynote. For the last several keynotes, macrumorslive.com has been one of the few sites that hasn’t crashed during Jobs’ presentation.

January 9, 2007Asidesbsowell

The NYT on the rocky relationship between university presidents and faculty/students. I’m glad our president is so popular.

Economic Fiction

January 8, 2007Asidesbsowell

NPR has a story on economic genre fiction. It seems that “economic horror” is something that people can relate to (via Boing Boing).

Pachelbel for a Cellist

January 7, 2007Videobsowell

Pachelbel Rant

Maybe you have to be a cellist, but this video an old orchestra friend sent me is pretty much the funniest thing ever. Although I have to admit, in spite of it all, I actually like Pachelbel’s Canon…