large rap collider
If physicists don’t find the God Particle, create Dark Matter, reveal the nth dimension, or develop the Theory of Everything, at least the Large Hadron Collider will have resulted in the lyric “the LHC accelerates the protons and lead / and the things that it discovers will rock you in the head“. That definitely furthers [...]
dimension digression
A French team of mathemeticians and computer artists has just released a documentary that attempts to help us mere math-mortals transcend the three-dimensional space we are trapped in, and visualize regular polyhedra in 4 dimensions just as a Escher tile-lizard might visualize our 3-D world. The two hours worth of videos are very well done, [...]
Grimes against humanity
And speaking of totalitarian police states, it has come to my attention that Jack Grimes, indefatigable leader of the United Fascist Union, and 2008 candidate for US president, who wants to re-make America in the model of Mussolini’s Italy, with mandatory worship of the Roman Pantheon, is from my home town. Yet another reason to [...]
tot-alitarianism
Speaking of security – unfortunately the Playmobil Security Checkpoint is out of stock. This toy would really help any young thought-criminal become habituated to the pervasive “security apparatus” they will be growing up under the all-seeing eye of. But while the children in the overseas toy factories ramp up production of this item, you can [...]
cloudy with chance of persistent elasticity
The cloud is good. The cloud is new. We like cloud. Now that that’s settled, AWS engineers are well underway in making persistent, durable storage available to EC2 instances. This opens up a whole new world of possiblilty to those of use who have been intrigued by running AMIs, but put off by the fact [...]
Too fit to print
On Friday the Wall Street Journal officially put on mask, fins and snorkel and lowered itself into the cesspool.
wtf is wrong with these people
With all the trouble in the world, it’s good to know that at least us savvy internet users won’t be bothered by potentially offensive acronyms while driving around the leafy avenues of our wholesome towns. Well, it would be great if there were not so many other somewhat-funny ways to use licence plates to offend.
The mathmatical elimination of Canadians
Being a born risk taker and adventurer, I couldn’t pass up the change to register for a sweepstakes put on by Kelty, makers of my sleeping bag and tent, to win a trip to Iceland and a bunch of gear. Of course I won’t win anything but the occasional spam email, but let’s pretend it’s [...]
test of some code highlighting.
here is some slick code. It was easy to get the highlights working.
Hello world!
The first post. It has moxie, no? have decided on the Rounded Grey Blog theme for now, despite the boring name. thank you!
