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“Ohne Sinnlichkeit würde uns kein Gegenstand gegeben, und ohne Verstand keiner gedacht werden. Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind.” - Kritik …
And the BBC has an excellent description of how the peace symbol was constructed.Happy first day of spring, Round 1 of March Madness, end of spring break and Easter. Peace out.ReferenceKathryn Wescott, BBC, World’s best known protest symbol turns 50, 2008-03-20.
~sigh~how ignorantthere is something wrong with the attitudes we are imparting to our children- a fellow Singaporean PhD student on IMI see that in the few years since I’ve graduated, things at my alma mater have gotten ever more mad.And yet, some things haven’t changed.Like this:Once these Raffles Junior College students, the creme de la ...
[Ed: This post is about real work, not just my regular mumblings.]I was delighted to find that doxygen, one of the world’s best code documentation tools, now supports Fortran 90.1 This now means that a very large body of scientific code out there can now be documented with the same awesome tools as many excellent ...
“I enjoy reading these articles, hehthey are definitely not very nutritiousbut it’s like reading a children’s bookif you know what I meanit’s very cute”- IM c …
The winning design for the Greener Gadgets 2008 competition comes from one Clay Moulton, a Master’s student at Virginia Tech. Moulton’s winning design is the Gravia lamp, which works not off of electricity, but by gravity. To “charge up” the lamp, the user lifts a weight to the top of a column, whereby it slowly ...
This is perhaps the only meaningful thing that I’ve read about the escape of JI leader Mas Selamat Kastari:[F]ollowing the mainstream media over the first 24 hours was frustrating an …
I read the budget speech. Here’s what I got out of it. I decided not to read the last chapter with minutiae about new policies, but otherwise I got pretty much everything. Paragraph numbers in parentheses where pertinent, my comments in footnotes.While the Government had provided for a budget deficit in 2007, clement economic conditions ...
The Hong Kong government has for the past few years been wildly inaccurate in its fiscal estimates. This year’s budget surplus of $15bn is more than four times the government‘s previous es …
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lunar eclipse on Feb 20, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati. I took this photo about ten minutes before totality. Saturn can be seen in the lower left corner, and Regulus is above the moon.
Elia Diodati posted a photo:I took this photo about ten minutes before totality. Saturn can be seen in the lower left corner, and Regulus is above the moon.
As riots broke out in Belgrade over the independence of Kosovo, most Serbians worried about national unity and keeping the peace.These two greedy girls, however, went on a shopping spree which was caught on camera by Youtube user gvantanamo. Within 24 hours, this 2.5-minute clip has become a top ten most viewed clip of the ...
Here’s a short mathematical riddle for you.Let i be the square root of -1. Then i2 = -1, i3 = i . i2 = -i and i4 = i2 . i2 = 1, and so on. Thus we know how to calculate i to any integer power you might care about.A popular way to interpret ...
I mean, seriously. Do we need a holy war here? Does it matter if alleged moles were really moles? Is this really about sockpuppetry, or about the undisclosed presence of the Establishment?Even the Establishment has the right to have its views expressed.And come on, feigning threats of legal action? Remember what happened the last time ...
Q: With the kite thing and the comic strip, you must have a Charles Schultz complex. What do you think about football and softball?A: Football and softball - those are those outdoor team sports things, right?- Randall Munroe, Q&A session
Ed: The following was drafted about a year ago and I never quite gotten around to finishing it until now. I’ve cut out a lot of what I had wanted to say, but the point still remains valid today.When we consider the question of standard English what we find, in effect, is double standards. The ...
I was suddenly reminded today, by some random Act of Probability, of one of the more unusual perils of working in a World-Class Research University.The lab phone rang today and I picked it up, expecting a call from one of our collaborators from across campus. To my shock and horror, a woman in an incredibly ...
This little conversation appeared in Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. This otherwise obscure play1 is universally recognized as the etymological source of the word robot.A* > Jsem hrozně zpá …
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