April 2007
12 posts
Carefully designed to make you look stupid →
“That’s the primary function of the apostrophe—to expose apostrophe ignorance.”
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Bathsheba Sculpture →
Amazing mathematical art.
MPAA's Most Wanted: MPAA Compiles List Of Top 25... →
Woo-hoo! We’re number 2!
Gapminder →
Amazing tools for visualizing trends in world development.
Pearls Before Breakfast →
“It was the most astonishing thing I’ve ever seen in Washington. Joshua Bell was standing there playing at rush hour, and people were not stopping, and not even looking, and some were flipping quarters at him!”
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“Mathematics is the art of effective forgetting.”
– Leland McInnes
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If We Taught English the Way We Teach Math →
…you would probably hate books.
Official Website for the Titanic truth movement. →
“I encourage you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions based on my premise that the government is lying to you and that your disagreement with said premise constitutes your admission of being a sheep.”
What Really Ruined Baseball →
“To many baseball fans the game has been ruined — hallowed records toppled, managers playing less small ball as they wait for that three-run homer. But the blame shouldn’t be placed on pills, needles and balms. The true culprit is expansion.”
EMI to Sell Much of its Music Without Antipiracy... →
Big news: According the the Wall Street Journal, EMI will announce plans Monday to sell much of its catalogue without DRM. Unfortunately the article’s behind the subscription wall and it hasn’t shown up yet on Factiva.
For discussion →
Colby Cosh addresses the unconscionable lack of a single word to describe James Surowiecki’s “wisdom of crowds” concept with his submission: plurisapience.
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Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider →
Terence Tao again: “In trying to come up with a classical conceptual model in which to capture these non-classical phenomena, we eventually hit upon using the idea of using computer games as an analogy.”