RULES:
1. Put your iPod/MP3 player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. My new rule: Systematic pre-filtering allowed (e.g. I have lots of classical music with no specific names on it, so I excluded all classical music)

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS ( Read more... )

( I will focus on the third kind )

...it's time for a segment in counter-intuitive mathematics:

"any x such that x > 0" is different from "any x such that x ≥ c > 0 for some c"

This has been a segment in counter-intuitive mathematics.

When you see this, post a quote by Douglas Adams with these instructions.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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I just found this to be pretty cool for video footage (came across it some time ago when I was using Wikipedia to understand that tiny war Russia had (is having? I kinda stopped paying attention) with Georgia)

Click to view

(No intention to make light of anything here, but that UAV shouldn't have been there, so it deserved to be shot down, and that Mig shouldn't ( Read more... )

If you're not willing to kill one innocent person to save five, then are you willing to kill one to save twenty, a hundred, a thousand, the entire planet. If not, where do you draw the line, and how is not arbitrarily?In most of the choices we are faced with in life it frankly doesn't matter what moral theory you pick: they'll all give you the same ( Read more... )

This has occupied my mind for quite some time now, due to several factors including the fact that I have taken some classes related to the subject and the fact that I have a certain fascination with gambling.

The martingale betting strategy (not to be confused with the mathematical entity) is designed to work in a gamble where the payout of a win ( Read more... )

This July 7th XKCD manages to get the Wikipedia article on wood locked by mentioning it in the comic:
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Observations made on plane to Frankfurt:
- Bad movies are better when dubbed in German. Perhaps because I can't understand it.

Observations made while in Frankfurt:
- There are way too many Russians in Frankfurt.

Observations made on plane to Nice:
- There's a mountain range in Europe.

Observations made while in Nice:
- There are palm trees in