January 2010
17 posts
textism: Rampart: Based on the Novel Octopus by Flannel
Jan 30th
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“Now I think I’m starting to see how [Harvard] lost all that money. They have no...”
– Curt
Jan 28th
Say it out loud: iPad
lonelysandwich: But I’m afraid I’ll only ever love the device despite its embarrassing name. And that makes me love it a little less. Apple, you fucked up. Adam Lisagor is right: iPad is a stupid name, stupid in such an obvious way that I saw three different people on Facebook make the “if Apple makes a larger iPad, they can name it MaxiPad” joke yesterday. But the thing you have...
Jan 28th
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The topology of Helmholtz domains →
Riccardo Benedetti, Roberto Frigerio, Riccardo Ghiloni
Jan 27th
Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math... →
Very interesting and reasonably short paper. The basic situation: “[E]lementary education majors are largely female and have the highest levels of math anxiety of any college major.” “By the school year’s end … the more anxious teachers were about math, the more likely girls (but not boys) were to endorse the commonly held stereotype that ‘boys are good at...
Jan 27th
gelatobaby: Tomorrow is going to be awesome. Obama is going to tell us that we have no money and Steve Jobs is going to tell us how to spend it.
Jan 27th
Apple, Adobe, and Flash →
John Gruber on why you shouldn’t expect to see Flash supported by whatever Apple announces on Wednesday. The answer in seven words: Flash is owned and controlled by Adobe.
Jan 26th
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“To tell someone that you don’t play games is to pretend that they are stupid and...”
– Magic Molly 
Jan 25th
The most depressing day of the year →
Interesting. According to some pseudo-scientific formula, my birthday (which was yesterday) is apparently the most depressing day of the year. (h/t lencheto)
Jan 25th
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Partitioning 3-Space with Circles →
A student asked yesterday whether this is possible. I vaguely remembered that the answer was “yes”, but not how simple it is.
Jan 21st
Jan 20th
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hotdogsladies: Liberal outrage seems to really heat up about 36 hours after it might have been useful.
Jan 20th
Joe Buck: “3rd and 10 for the Vikings…[10 second pause]…3rd down and 10…[15 second pause]…It’s 3rd down and 10…[5 second pause]…”
Jan 17th
Jan 14th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
adamisacson: Poles do _not_ stick to your tongue on cold days. Neither do Hungarians, Czechs, or Slovaks. I haven’t tried a Bulgarian yet.
Jan 3rd