New toy! Fritz Obermeyer’s Jenn makes stereographic projections of most of the convex uniform tilings of the hypersphere; of the 64 Conway-Guy polychora only four (whose construction is somewhat anomalous) are missing.
I downloaded the generic Unix version and easily built it on my Mac.
The author has responded cheerfully to my comments.
I mis-heard some trivial question as “What is Hamming music?”
For some of us, the name Hamming is strongly associated with information theory, and so I imagined that “Hamming music” must be algorithmic composition using error-correcting principles.
And that got me thinking vaguely about redundancy in art.
Radley Balko has finished and published his report, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.
The only effective treatment for Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s narcolepsy is no longer available, thanks to the risk-averse regulatory establishment.
You know what they say: if a regulation can save just one life (in six years) — who cares how many others it wrecks?
I took a cold shower a few minutes ago and now the water dripping in my hair is hot. Any more of this and the chemo-kids are welcome to my amber waves!
Seriously, do you know of any organization around here that collects hair for charity?
Akismet appears to be effective in protecting WordPress blogs from spam.
Will Wilkinson debunks the notion that private charity would be better spent to “leverage” government spending — in other words, in rent-seeking.