I’d love to have an English translation of the German comments in fullgen.c, a program that counts the polyhedra that can be made of pentagons and hexagons (i.e. fullerenes), so that I can modify it. (None of the output modes are quite what I’m after, and I think it may miss some solutions.)

Would I pay for a translation? Well, I’m obscenely broke these days, but I might.

Several important things happened on April 19, but here’s one of which I was unaware: Charles Darwin died on this date in 1882.

It came to my attention because the bookmark of the hour happens to be the Darwin-L archives. Darwin-L (1993-7) was a forum devoted to the historical sciences, full of tasty wide-ranging discussion. I was very sorry to see it close down.

How many list-servers, I wonder, still use the -L tag?

I sneer at institutional sports, but — oh just go watch it. (Cited by Radley Balko.)

Am I the last to see this?

So there I was, getting into the swing of Wikipedia, doing my bit for (among others) numerous entries relating to Buffy. I noticed that the pages for Darla, Angel, Spike and Harmony repeated a bunch, so I created an entry on Joss Whedon’s vampires to collect it in one place. Six days later someone else came along and replaced it with a much longer article full of misspellings and clutter, retaining not one of my well-written sentences.

Harrumph.

I guess every contributor gets a similar shock sooner or later.

Another copy of the balloonist joke. I still wanna know what the second man is doing in the deep ocean.

I also wanna know, LJ experts, how I can become a real boy in the eyes of LJ’s comment machinery without creating a redundant Journal.

Ever worry about how your webpage looks to the colorblind? I am pleased to find that my doodles page looks pretty good in gray. (Cited by Sam Logan.)