January 30 05
I am not sure if the guys behind this site are serious or not, but The Mad Revisionist has a detailed argument on why the whole moon thing is a hoax. There are no arguments on why the moon doesn’t exist, but it argues by saying that there is no incontrovertible evidence to show that [...]
January 30 05
Suresh at The Geomblog has details about the mathematics behind the new CBS thriller Numb3rs where an FBI agent uses the mathematical skills of his genius brother to solve his cases. More power to them! Tags: numb3rs, cbs, maths, mathematics, tv, show
January 28 05
Beats me, but some guy sure needs to know the magic of building antennas using C++. From comp.object: HI everyone, I was trying to build an antenna in C++. I don’t know where to start. can anyone help me?? if there is some code that would be even better. I don’t care about the type [...]
January 27 05
From Life magazine’s 100 Photographs that Changed the World on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (emphasis mine) On October 22, 1962, after accusing the U.S.S.R. of installing nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ordered a blockade of the island. When the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. refused to deny the charge, U.S. ambassador [...]
January 24 05
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January 22 05
Here’s something to cheer you up at the beginning of the dreary week ahead (or to inspire you to do something similar at the end of the week). Andy Riley’s simple cartoons document the efforts of a bunny to commit suicides that are sick and hilarious at the same time. The complete collection is available [...]
January 22 05
Sounds weirdly fantastic, but Hit Song Science (HSS) from Polyphonic aims to automate the process of finding which CD has the potential to be the next big hit by comparing the principal components of a song against a database of 3.5 million hit singles. Apparently the music industry is already using this software (which doesn’t [...]
January 21 05
The Christian Science Monitor has a collection of views from newspapers around the world on Bush’s second presidential term. Opinions range from optimism and praise for his foreign policy to discomfort at the thought of a more confrontational second term. Quotes from their roundup: Bush’s speech focused on the ‘power of freedom’, saying that the [...]