This post gives the sets S(2) through S(15) for a puzzle I've posted here.

( If you ain't doing the puzzle, don't look below the cut. It's boring. )

In case you missed it: Ennis/Whedon nerd fight.

Also, kotikokura pointed me to the Scientology Christmas Pageant. I wish I had known about this when it was playing in LA. I would have made the effort to go. I like their socks. Very Godspell.

Finally, I am guest-blogging over at Is There No Sin In It? as Phutatorius' Chestnut. If you care, add it to your ( Read more... )

I just read Mark Halpern's The Trouble with the Turing Test. I'm just aghast at how off-the-mark Halpern is. He asks all the wrong questions, and makes all the wrong observations. He desperately wants to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes, by lamely flinging the rhetoric of a critical thinker like a chimp flings poo. I am very ( Read more... )

Aries (March 21 - April 19):You will be overly sensitive this week. Small opportunities will present themselves as burdens to you. Also, stay indoors hiding in your bathroom all this month, there are unexplainable, giant gamma-ray explosions in your fucking zodiac sign!

Your Lucky Day is Wednesday

Overheard in Davis:

Girl: I know what you are saying, but just beacause you think he brags too much, doesn't mean that Beowulf is a jerk...

-- 3rd and A

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Attention: Rogue PK Dick replicant has gone awol

Lets get Deckard on the case. The only redeeming feature is that the android PKD can be rooted out with something much less sophisticated than the Voight-Kampff machine: simply ask if he is human, and he responds no.

TV on the Radio: "The penis is evil..."

This proposed experiment may just elevate string-theory from religion to science. In the Standard Model, the creation of a black hole is so prohibitively expensive that its infeasible in our modern particle accelerators. In the 10 or 11 dimensions of string theory, however, it might just be possible to produce a micro black hole at a facility like ( Read more... )