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Date: July 22nd, 2008

Just Stopped In

22 July, 2008 (03:55) | Physics | 1 comment

to see what condition my condition was in
What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)
This report, that there’s nothing to report, is newsworthy because of a growing buzz in lay and academic circles that something is wrong with the sun. Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots declared one recent press release. A careful look [...]

&@#*%$

22 July, 2008 (03:53) | Cartoon, Language, Typography | No comments

The use of symbols to represent swearing actually has a name: grawlix
[I]t looks to have been coined by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker around 1964. Though it’s yet to gain admission to the Oxford English Dictionary, OED Editor-at-Large Jesse Sheidlower describes it as “undeniably useful, certainly a word, and one that I’d [...]

Good Night, Miss Ratched

22 July, 2008 (03:52) | Movies, Other science | 1 comment

Cuckoo’s Nest Hospital to be Torn Down
Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall.
There’s nothing to the rumor that a giant pillow [...]

That’s Mathematics

22 July, 2008 (03:52) | Math, Video | No comments

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Heh, heh.
Find x. Here it is!
via Faraday’s Cage is where you put Schroedinger’s Cat

 

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