. . . muttered the ogre

behind the digits

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Got an approximation to a real number, and want to know what formula is hidden behind it?
Try Plouffe’s Inverter.

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forsooth thy knockers be bounteous

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

We once knew a woman who got a job translating three porn flicks from Italian to Spanish. Why did they bother, you ask. Because they were done in (well, mostly out of) Renaissance dress and the dialogue was in hexameters.

Three such flicks?

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get the Kryptonite!

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Cintra Wilson raises the alarm:

I must warn the world about Tom Cruise. I feel he is an utterly terrifying Superior Life Form, with the power to melt heads and braid spines. His eyes are as hard, shiny and brutally penetrating as diamond drill-bits. . . . Tom Cruise is becoming the Scary Flaming Eye from “The Lord of the Rings,” and I fear that nobody can stop him.

See what Scientology can do for you?

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Popshot

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick.

(Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because of mathematical material.)

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greenery on the red planet?

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Mammoth trees near Martian south pole? Well, they’re curious, whatever they are. Could be accretions of something sticky, as in the ‘Coral’ screensaver.

Reminds me of a book I have, Where will we go when the Sun dies?, which I keep only because it contains a list of objects on the Moon which ought to have a closer look because they could be artifacts, e.g. what appears to be a bridge over a canyon.

Later: Never mind that the site owner is a true believer in the Cydonia Face . . . .

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