I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).
noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.
“for god’s sake, please stop the aid!”
Spiegel Interview with African Economics Expert
If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn’t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.
(Cited by FFF in the daily for July 18.)
Letter to The Economist, August 13 issue:
My professor on an accounting course at Harvard Business School 25 years ago introduced it thus: “When most of you read accounting statements now, you do not understand them. At the end of this course, you will not believe them.”
Damianos Damianos
Athens
I’m looking at a banner ad that says
Q. Which is not like the others? 63 57 98 01
I saw quickly that none are prime (1 is usually not counted as prime, so that each integer’s prime factorization is unique) and then that two of the four are divisible by 3, and then a long pause before I saw that only one is even. Does that say something about me?
Planarity, a Flash puzzle: rearrange the vertices so that no edges cross. (Cited by Joshua Burton.)
When a solution is near, the program gets very slow, which seems backward. (Thursday: It has been changed to test only on the player’s request.)
How is the graph generated? Perhaps it starts with a Delaunay triangulation of a random set of vertices, and deletes edges until each vertex has degree 4, 3 or 2.