Gunnerkrigg Court, a newish cartoon-strip set in a decidedly weird boarding school.
This is too good to leave buried in the comments: Loituma perform “Ievan polkka”
Sheldon Richman: Capitalism vs Capitalism
Something Positive: It’s entirely possible that you’ll appreciate this joke more than I can.
You don’t need me to tell you that MC Escher laid down some killer grooves. It’s high time someone made a movie of his last work: Snakes on a plane!
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.
On June 29, 2005, a redesigned Freedom Tower was released, addressing security concerns raised about the original design. The new design retains essential elements of the original — soaring 1,776 feet into the sky, its illuminated spire evoking the Statue of Liberty’s torch — but features a larger, cubic base set back further from West Street to protect the building against any future terrorist attempts.
Because, y’know, what really had me worried was that the bad guys might bring this one down with a truck-bomb, just like its predecessor.
One of my images is being used as a background on Allegro, which looks like a Polish cousin of eBay. It would please me if someone were to tell the seller that I’m a bit peeved.
One of these days I’ll make an image containing the text IF YOU USE MY WORK WITHOUT EVEN TELLING ME, YOU CAN AT LEAST HOST IT YOURSELF, and substitute it for any images requested from such sites.
The above is the title of a (suspected) spam caught today by Pobox’s filter. I’m almost tempted to find out what the content could be.
In other news, I was passed on the highway by a sport Audi moving at high speed; its plate was CAFIN8D.
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?
Pillow can generate a remarkable volume of purr when he puts his mind to it. I thought of asking him, “Is that a frog in your throat or are you just happy to see me?” but it could so easily be misconstrued.