Archive for April, 2007
“Dear population: laws are boring, I’ll make new fun ones!” -Leader of Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov is Turkmenistan’s ex-leader (until his death in 2006) and was one master into making absurd laws.
He had (I suppose) a God-given objective of reminding people that one person in charge of power could lead to bad things and/or that laws are [...]
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If you are a fan of South Park, you may remember that episode where the Chinese man (owns his own restaurant) hires the kids to find a contract to his singing wife. At the end of the show, they give a link for her website: http://wingmusic.co.nz/
I browsed around her website and found out she did [...]
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Apparently nothing really new to the world of Maths, but it’s new to me.
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I don’t know much about American politics, but some people seemed to react with surprise to this old article of the Onion posted in january 2001 about Bush’ next years as a president:
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
Judge for yourself.
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Yes, this is old content, but old content means a lot of people missed on it the first few times.
The first one is the Impossible Fork.
The impossible fork (Seckel 2002, p. 151), also known as the devil’s pitchfork (Singmaster) or blivet, is a classic impossible figure originally due to Schuster (1964). While each prong of [...]
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I’m having lots of fun with this right now:
http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm
EDIT: I made the most flexible bridge I could!
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moved to http://parseidon.com/code-script/php/simple-cache/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_truce.svg
Thanks, they got that covered.
I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible,
I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Whew, fortunately he doesn’t own copyrights on [...]
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from p2pnet.net
Wayne Crookes decided to sue google (for blogspot), wikipedia and a bunch of other websites for libel:
It states that last summer, six anonymous defendants put libellous comments on Blogspot’s The Green Compost Heap under passages labelled ‘Wayne Crookes’ and the ‘Gang of Crookes.’ Wayne Crookes, a Vancouver businessman and Green organizer, is suing three [...]
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