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The limit of all humor?
From http://buddybetts.com/jokes/math/ I still remember coming across factorial notation for the first time: 5! Hmmm, is that like shouting "FIVE!". Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Big badges Spurs and Arsenal badges compensate for something?
I noticed the two North London teams now have supersized badges. Gareth Bale sports a Big(ish) COCKerel on his Spurs badge ... But Arsenal have a huge gun on Wallcott's badge. They're not compensating...
View ArticleWhen App Store app leads to Open Source because of "unknown unknowns"
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/08/briefsapp.htmlMy co-worker and all-around good guy, Rob Rhyne has officially open sourced Briefs.app as of today. After three months of being dicked...
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PowerPoints 'R' Us: Col Sellin is as mad as hell and isn't going to take it...
Here is a brilliant article written by 61 year old Col Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. in the U.S. Army Reserve. The brief whole text is below. It is worth reading. After my rambling and some other links to...
View ArticleWe are all electronic performers: Amour, Imagination, Rêve (AIR) and...
I love the Air song How Does it Make You Feel from the album 10000 Hz Legend for both the Mac Plaintalk voices (Fred and Victoria?) and the humor. French guys being funny in English? Espace de...
View ArticleHistory of the Predictive Text Swearing:
Armstrong and Miller's take on textonyms in the "History of the Predictive Text Swearing" sketch. I lips this. That's book, man. Very book! Book is a textonym of cool and it was used briefly as a...
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150mph+ sustained winds at Camp Muir at 10,100 feet on Saturday
There was some quite astonishing weather on Camp Muir on Saturday on Mt Rainier at 10,100 feet. Winds reached minimum of 107mph with 132mph average and 155mph gusts. The forecast at 700mb (around...
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Melanistic ("Blue Phase") Snow Goose in the Skagit flock: the MC1R gene in...
The Skagit Valley Herald published this photo of a Melanistic ("Blue Phase") Snow Goose in the Skagit flock Very nice catch. On a technical note the "blue phase" is the same as the "white phase"...
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Beautiful MODIS/TERRA image of snow cover over the Pacific Northwest
This is a beautiful MODIS image from the NASA TERRA satellite of snow cover over the Pacific Northwest. You can see the snow shadow in the central Puget Sound butif you look carefully you can see the...
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[Tweeters] Interesting Coyote Tale
On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Casacummins wrote on TWEETERS: On Wednesday, March I was driving on Highway 104, North of the Hood Canal Bridge at about 3:00 pm when a larger-than-usual coyote crossed...
View Article[Tweeters] Bird Abbreviations
On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Bill Anderson wrote: > I have no problem with abbreviations as long as the bird is first fully named at the beginning of the e-mail. Agreed. > I have seen the term...
View ArticleTools for Thinking: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s...
David Brooks at the New York TImes (no link as it's now paywalled) says: A few months ago, Steven Pinker of Harvard asked a smart question: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive...
View ArticleCombine journalism with the technical report format to make engineers write...
On the thread following Edward Tufte's article PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports which shows a small part of his book Beautiful Evidence.There is this...
View ArticleWhy did the Barred Owl's range expand into the West?
I asked earlier on TWEETERS: Why did the Barred Owl's range expand? Anthropogenic or natural causes? Anthropgenic causes seem to get the nod in the literature (as Rob has pointed out) for their...
View ArticleFirefox 4 and TenFourFox: web apps and restarting the app
I finally turned off "Show my windows and tabs from last time" and instead used "Restore Previous Session" to bring back the previous session. I quit and restarted TenFourFox to recover memory...
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Choosing a misleading favicon ...
Browsing Snapsort (looking for the "ideal" camera for Veleta -- it's an interesting site with a nice browser/comparison UI) I clicked on a group of possible comparisons. And waited for them to load....
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Fujifilm X-Trans color filter array layout has interesting symmetries
Fujifilm have revealed the X-Trans color filter array layout used on the X-Pro1 camera. http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x_pro1/features/ Two things come to mind: 1. The...
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William Eggleston on a swing in Jackson, Missippi
A recent TOP post on Eggleston photo sometimes titled "Jackson, Missippi" coming up for auction at Christie's. This is perhaps one Eggleston's more famous pictures....
View Article[Tweeters] Northwestern Crows
Apologies as this is VERY LONG but I think a significant step forward in talking about the status of the Northwestern Crow. A second short email that follows this is a short summary with advice for...
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