Roy Zimmerman is a genius. Via Retrospectacle: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/uIwiPsgRrOs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] My added value? The lyrics are here.
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Who needs Occam when you have Jesus’ razor?
Halfway There provides a wonderful commentary on the Research Challenge Contest ‘winners’. My favourite quote from one of the papers: Many evolutionists are recognizing the problems with these theories that attempt to explain cells’ irreducible complexity. An infinitely intelligent Designer must have created these cells. That Creator and Designer is Jesus. Let me paraphrase. I [...]
Mrs Postie is an idiot
You know how on the telly everyone in the village knows their postman by name? I’m getting really fed up with the Royal Mail. These days (and it’s not just after the strikes) I often get my mail delivered once or twice a week. On several occasions I have received domestic letters three weeks after [...]
Rise and fly ye English language
I was going to ask why the word exply doesn’t exist but, apparently, it does. Well, almost anyway. P.S. The title actually happens to be in trochaic tetrameter. That’s just as well as it’s a rough translation from Finnish.
Ralink and The Linux Emporium: highly recommended!
A common complaint about Linux is that it doesn’t support all hardware. Of course it doesn’t. Neither would Windows if Microsoft had to write drivers for all hardware devices. Most manufacturers still see Linux as too small a market to bother, so writing drivers is often left to users and volunteers, not the hardware vendors. [...]
Her name was Lola
According to Wikipedia Copacabana may refer to: Copacabana, Bolivia, a town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Copacabana, a district of Rio de Janeiro, named after the Bolivian town. Copacabana (nightclub), named after the district in Rio. Copacabana (song), by Barry Manilow, named after the nightclub. Copacabana (musical), by Barry Manilow, named after the song. [...]
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I’m PSPACE-complete but I’ll reduce you to 3-SAT
The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not [...]
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Anything for science
Professor Devendra Singh, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, studied the physical attractiveness of Miss America beauty contestants and Playboy centrefolds over a period of 50 years. I’d really like to see how he formulated that in his research proposal to secure funding.
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Of mice and marketroids
For the past decade or so I’ve maintained that Microsoft should drop their useless software side and focus on what they do best: hardware. I’m having a hard time admitting it, but much of the hardware Microsoft puts out is actually pretty good. I loved the original 1995 Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and their first sausage-shaped [...]
Peace, man
There’s a page discussing the Muslim greeting of “assalaamu alaykum” (peace be upon you). A snippet: There are certain situations under which it is preferable not to offer salaam. These include; when a person is relieving himself, when one is having marital relationship, when someone is sleeping or when in the bathroom. I can think [...]