I am fascinated by the unusual products available on the internet. Here you can buy the finest closed, non-orientable, boundary-free manifolds sold anywhere. Stuck as we are in 3-space, these are as close to true Klein bottles as we can hope for. Very nice.
I still have no explanation for this. The [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2005 by pwyll
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I got a chuckle out of this bit from KillerGoldFish.
Dr. Phil proclaimed “The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you’ve started.” So I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn’t finished, and before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2005 by pwyll
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If you ever thrash when trying to construct complicated regular expressions, the Regex Coach is the tool you need. It assists you in interactively building the correct expression. Brilliant. Available free for Windows and Linux here.
Posted on April 17th, 2005 by pwyll
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Forty four years ago today, 1500 Cuban members of La Brigada 2506 were left to die at Bahia de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. They were betrayed by President John Kennedy. Kennedy had promised air support for the invasion, but reneged on his word. Grayston Lynch, the CIA agent who fired the first [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2005 by pwyll
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Here’s a joke
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop! Don’t do it!”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he said.
“Well, there’s so much to live for!”
“Like what?”
“Well… are you religious?” He said yes. I said, “Me too!”
Are you [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2005 by pwyll
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From Reuters UK
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Buy and sell, wheel and deal, but don’t get rich.
That’s the advice to businessmen from Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, a self-proclaimed revolutionary who wants to develop a new form of socialism to fight poverty in the world’s No. 5 oil exporter.
“Being rich is bad, it’s bad. People who [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2005 by pwyll
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