I predict that within four years, the US federal government will make a serious attempt to nationalize and/or directly destroy/reorganize the Free Software Foundation ( Read more... )

What's kind of neat is that the variance of compute-power is decreasing as the years roll on, indicating a convergence of commodity parts. (Although this may be due to a non-representative sample; for history, there's ENIAC but none of today's special-purpose super-computers are listed ( Read more... )

http://www.symbols.com/random/

from comments @ boingboing: http://mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu/shelving.html

This kind of thing seems to really offend ink-on-aging-paper fetishists. I am agnostic about its esoteric telos (or lack thereof). I just find it an interesting inter-phase between traditional ( Read more... )

"Can the reader say what two numbers multiplied together will produce the number 8616460799? I think it unlikely that anyone but myself will ever know."

Jevons; The Principles of Science, 1874.

I can't help myself:

random_walker@homeless:~$ time factor 8616460799
8616460799: 89681 96079

real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T75s2RBQhSM

While they are not the most consistent musical group, Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares from their Phaedra album is an absolutely stunning and pure piece of ambient music (although not perfect). Listening to it is one of the most calming and mystical experiences I can experience on demand. Part of this is of course, the coincidence ( Read more... )

By borrowing a Vietnamese technique, we propose a one-level extension of the well-known turducken construction. Incorporating the balut, gives us immediately what we call the turduckeneggen. The concept is not new; it is an extension of the process of [1], to which we are endebted ( Read more... )

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http://www.google.com/search?q=once+in+a+blue+moon&btnG=Search