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"As a reversed S, Ƨ was also used as a fractional Roman numeral, where it stood for the fraction..."

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:53:50 +0100

“As a reversed S, Ƨ was also used as a fractional Roman numeral, where it stood for the fraction 1/72.”

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ƨ

The Feynman Algorithm

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:55:13 +0100

Write down the problem.
Think real hard.
Write down the solution.

David Crane

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:53:00 +0000

David Crane

"If I recall correctly, [Waldemar Horwat] began by specifying a very precise, simple “spec..."

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:16 +0000

“If I recall correctly, [Waldemar Horwat] began by specifying a very precise, simple “spec language” with clear semantics. Then he wrote an interpreter for that language in Common Lisp. Then he wrote the E4 spec in his spec language. The result was that he could compile the specification itself into a working ECMAScript interpreter.”

- Eric Lippert on Why is there a large difference in readability between the C# and ECMAScript specifications?

Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009 Merit Winner - Jason Larkin

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:37:38 +0000

Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009 Merit Winner - Jason Larkin

"[P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started..."

Mon, 17 May 2010 12:39:26 +0100

“

[P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!

Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.

So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.

”

- BBC News - Sir Mick Jagger goes back to Exile

"I’m watching the news; Tupac Shakur was assassinated, Biggie Smalls assassinated. Struck down..."

Tue, 11 May 2010 02:58:52 +0100

“

I’m watching the news; Tupac Shakur was assassinated, Biggie Smalls assassinated. Struck down by assassin’s bullets…

No they wasn’t.

Martin Luther King was assassinated, Malcolm X was assassinated, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Them two nigga’s got shot!

Shit, I love Tupac, I love Biggie, but school will be open on they birthday.

”

- Chris Rock

Project Habakkuk

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:12:30 +0000

Project Habakkuk:

was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice).

Reklame-Lego_1983_7 (via jens.lilienthal)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:59:04 +0000

Reklame-Lego_1983_7 (via jens.lilienthal)

via getlamp.com

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:40:06 +0000

via getlamp.com

File:Androgenic hair.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:37:00 +0000

File:Androgenic hair.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jon Postel

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Jon Postel

“Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:52 +0000

“Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It is also the province with the highest rate of birth defects. This loving farmer couple adopted 17 disabled children.”

Le Smoking

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:40:13 +0000

Le Smoking

"In some ways programs are among the most complicated artefacts mankind ever trued to design, and..."

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:51:55 +0000

“In some ways programs are among the most complicated artefacts mankind ever trued to design, and personally I find it fascinating to see that reasoning about them is so much aided by simple, elegant devices such as predicate calculus and lattice theory. After more than 45 years in the field, I am still convinced that in computing, elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure; in this connection I gratefully quote from The Concise Oxford Dictionary a definition of “elegant”, viz. “ingeniously simple and effective”. Amen.”

- EWD 1284

Iceland’s Minister of Industry and Minister of Social...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:04 +0000

Iceland’s Minister of Industry and Minister of Social Affairs during a discussion on emergency economic laws.

Croatian waterpolo team

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:53:15 +0100

Croatian waterpolo team

This bicycle was formerly owned by Ralf Hütter.

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:17:58 +0100

This bicycle was formerly owned by Ralf Hütter.

Buddhabrot fractal method

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:36:05 +0100

Buddhabrot fractal method

Photo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:38:54 +0100