implicity

trailing..

2007-09-27T00:39:00.000+01:00

if you actually know me, online or IRL, now is the time to find out where the fabulous new installment of weierstrass' blog is going to appear.

goodbye

2007-06-26T21:52:00.000+01:00

partly because i haven't posted here for a while anyway, and partly because i am fed up with Google, and don't wish to use their logon system to use Blogger, this blog is now defunct.i might still post here once or twice, in case there's somewhere else on the internet i will be writing at, to let all my faithful readers know about the next episode. or maybe i'll just tell you all IRL.google's

traffic light control box operation modes

2007-06-09T13:39:00.000+01:00

Urban traffic controlHurry CallManualRevert to AutoCableless LinkingVehicle ActuatedFixed TimeSignals On/Off

brilliant analogy

2007-04-08T13:00:00.000+01:00

[1] It doesn't take a conscious effort to make software incompatible. All you have to do is not work too hard at fixing bugs—which, if you're a big company, you produce in copious quantities. The situation is exactly analogous to the writing of bogus literary theorists. Most don't try to be obscure; they just don't make an effort to be clear. It wouldn't pay.From Paul Graham's new essay "

wanton

2007-04-04T00:23:00.001+01:00

The design and manufacture of all equipment intended for installationand operation at the roadside shall take account of the heavy day-to-day wear and tear, including wanton vandalism, to which streetfurniture is inevitably exposed.

Gary McKinnon

2007-04-03T23:51:00.000+01:00

Who hacked into US military and Nasa computers from British soil, is being extradited to the US for trial there.

consider yourself warned

2007-03-26T23:19:00.000+01:00

on mathematics education

2007-02-16T11:02:00.000Z

Let us suppose that one who is ignorant of the first principles of algebra and geometry, has chanced to light upon a book which treats of any mathematical science What conception can he form of the nature of the information which lays open to his sight? what opinion as to its general utility? what conclusion upon the question whether it would he desirable for him to commence the study? none

bill gates on software

2007-02-12T01:07:00.000Z

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was

all the paper sizes indicated on a photocopier

2007-02-04T17:04:00.000Z

5.5" A5 A6 B5 B6 16K A4 8.5" 11" 13" 14" B4 8K A3 17"since no photocopier i have ever seen uses any paper sizes but A4 and A3, wouldn't it be more helpful to just write A4-70%, A4-80%, A4-90% etc along the edge of the glass??

i saw a print of this gilbert & george picture in a local pub

2007-01-12T19:19:00.000Z

while it's nice to see modern art in pubs, i'm curious about their motivation for having chosen this picture, since it seems to incorporate elements of both the cross of st. george and a swastika.

internet kiosk in central london running windows

2006-12-28T00:35:00.000Z

internet payphone stuck at the BIOS screen

2006-11-07T15:12:00.000Z

the phone is something like a standard PC running a locked-down 'kiosk' version of Windows. i tried to edit the settings or look at the other menus (this one is the hardware interrupt settings) but wasn't able to since there were no 'Escape' or 'F1..' keys.

the meaning of meaning

2006-10-19T04:11:00.000+01:00

Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities.

music

2006-10-15T14:17:00.000+01:00

the true test of music is not is it any good, but does it make you shiver, and hairs stand up on the back of your neck.so far this year the only songs to have met this standard are 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley, Johnny Cash's San Quentin song, and 'Back to the Future', track 11 on the Futuristic Sex Robots' album 'Hotel Coral Essex'.

the european subcontinent

2006-10-07T23:04:00.000+01:00

while we're downgrading perfectly good planets, isn't it time we downgraded Europe, the small 'continent' attached to the left side of Asia? Europe's place is a the head of a new classificatory group of non-continent land entities to be entitled, Lame Continents, Not Really Continents, or Continents Defined Solely On Racial Grounds (according to the results of a poll of geographers), along with

old record player transformed into cd box

2006-10-04T19:41:00.000+01:00

rapidly becoming a photoblog

2006-09-29T02:54:00.000+01:00

the itbox runs windows

2006-09-27T03:22:00.000+01:00

as testified by the following Blue Screen Of Death text***STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x80084761, 0x00000001, 0x0000001C)(MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLEDBeginning dump of physical memoryPhysical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support groupThis is probably Windows NT. No photo, unless I see it happen again.

advertising screen outside the box office of 'the color purple' in times sq runnig windows

2006-09-26T22:41:00.000+01:00

please yahoo! stop this fucking madness

2006-08-28T14:41:00.000+01:00

soup

2006-08-23T22:06:00.000+01:00

1 turnip1 aubergine1 floret broccoli1 onionhalf a garlic1 courgette/marrow hybrid1 unidentified long green vegetablea third of a squasha handful of cherry tomatoes1 banana1 green peppera bunch of puy lentilsherbssalt and peppersoy sauceolive oilwater

no war but the information war

2006-08-22T21:44:00.000+01:00

alice and bob do a card trick

2006-08-22T10:18:00.000+01:00

the victim takes a pack of 52 cards and chooses any five whatsoever. he hands these cards to Bob. Bob looks at the cards. one by one, he takes four of them and hands them to Alice in a certain order. Alice examines the cards Bob has given her and the order they were received in. she then tells the victim what the five cards he chose are.how did they do it?

stuck in a prohibited place

2006-08-17T23:53:00.000+01:00

action is being taken to free you from the lift

2006-08-14T00:25:00.000+01:00

beatrice

2006-08-07T00:09:00.000+01:00

yay

2006-08-02T17:13:00.000+01:00

departure board in prague airport stuck at the boot screen

2006-08-01T16:31:00.000+01:00

most pathetic use of a calculator

2006-07-27T22:10:00.000+01:00

a waitress using it to work out 10 - 3 = 7previous best was a shopkeeper doing 2.20 * 2 = 4.40

happy Weierstrass function day

2006-07-18T18:17:00.000+01:00

the Weierstrass function is 134 years old today.

Bantown

2006-07-15T23:16:00.000+01:00

A wikipedia article I wrote about the 'hacker group' Bantown is being considered for deletion. Now may be your last chance to read my first foray into outlaw journalism. You can also register your opinion as to whether or not this article should be deleted on the discussion page at the second link above.

Question 5.1.43

2006-07-14T18:08:00.000+01:00

Are you married? Do you have children? What does your spouse do? How is your family? Where were you born? How old are you? These are all illegal questions in Canada and the US. Most question about family background, religion, marital status, and so on are illegal. Although illegal, you should be prepared to answer these questions.Heard On The Street: Quantitative questions from Wall Street job

naples airport arrivals board running windows

2006-07-11T16:29:00.000+01:00

notes

2006-06-26T01:46:00.000+01:00

Occam, were he alive today, would certainly use a one-bladed razor, not these silly 3-or-more-bladed razors.http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188016&cid=15503727"Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on

how to make a scanner work

2006-06-21T21:18:00.000+01:00

i just installed my scanner under linux and it was relatively painless, but only because i'd done it (multiple times?) before. the scanner is a 'Packard Bell Diamond 1200 Plus'. linux scanner software is called 'sane', and this scanner uses the 'gt68xx' backend for sane, both of which come installed by default with ubuntu. a backend is the part of the scanner program which speaks directly to the

karl and karl

2006-06-06T04:19:00.000+01:00

i knew that both Karl Marx and my namesake Karl Weierstrass were at Berlin university - Marx as a young student, Weierstrass as a professor after he was 'discovered' as a mathematician at the age of 40. But I just found out that they were both students at Bonn university at the same time in 1838 or thereabouts. Both were studying law at the insistence of their fathers, both apparently spent more

lansdown road

2006-06-04T18:02:00.000+01:00

eyewitness report

2006-06-03T23:56:00.000+01:00

I went to have a look at Lansdown Road, where the police shot a terrorism suspect yesterday, as it is about five streets away from my house. They are still searching the suspect's house, supposedly for a chemical weapon.Lansdown Rd, as well as the next street along, Rothsay Road, have police tape across them. A few other streets which give access to the end of Lansdown Rd are also sealed off near

hello world

2006-05-29T08:34:00.000+01:00

..from ubuntu, everyone's favourite linux distro.wow, it has all kinds of funny configuration quirks, and has debian-like credibility and doesn't have a root password and best of all was designed by a spaceman! Yes along with Teflon and those pens that write upside down, my new OS was invented in space, by aliens!Best of best of all, setting up a wireless connection took less than one evening, or

failures of the desktop metaphor

2006-05-22T16:28:00.000+01:00

One evening, I sent away a smiling lady with a new PC, assuring her that it would work with her new monitor. It did. Later in the week she returned red-faced, her eyes spouting steam. She'd lost all her files. "I thought they stayed in the screen!" she screamed.Computer salesman Dave Lee writing in the Guardian Technology section.

i've been a little busy

2006-05-21T23:46:00.000+01:00

passing exams and stuff.

sirius cybernetics corporation

2006-05-21T23:43:00.000+01:00

"it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all"

help

2006-04-21T03:20:00.000+01:00

i am looking for the number of digraphs on 6 vertices, where every vertex can be reached from every other by following the edges in the right direction, and the graph is minimal with this property; ie., if you remove any single edge, you can no longer reach every vertex from every other vertex. i don't know whether this property (the first property, not the minimal property) has a name (connected

spring

2006-04-16T14:14:00.000+01:00

the four (or five) sets of people who are undermining and destroying computer science

2006-04-03T16:05:00.000+01:00

the philosophersthe psychologiststhe cryptographersand the mathematiciansthe fifth set is the set whose only member is Stephen Wolfram, but I don't want to single him out unfairly.

that's what they said

2006-04-02T13:53:00.000+01:00

"i think you will agree as a tabloid journalist, mining rich seams of false dichotomies is your stock-in-trade"stonewall spokesperson to melanie philips"it turns out that traffic flow, like everything else on our planet is governed by scientific laws"'expert' on radio four"the night can make a man more brave, but not more sober" ?"not all men who drink are poets. some of us drink because we

that's what they said

2006-03-25T22:19:00.000Z

"Over our lifes preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century - sex and paranoia"J G Ballard - Introduction to 'Crash'"I mean it would be a sad life if you'd never fallen in love. And a far happier one if you only had to do it the once."One of The Stranglers, Guardian"A person falling intp a manhole is rarely helped by making it possible for him to fall faster or more efficiently."Joseph

geometric proof that the sum of the cubes is equal to the square of the sum

2006-03-25T00:11:00.000Z

Secure hashing

2006-03-17T18:05:00.000Z

In mathematical terms, a secure hash function is a function f from the natural numbers {1,2,...} to some finite subset of the natural numbers, which may as well be {1,2,...,n} (and usually is in practice). A secure hash is characterised by the fact that it's very difficult to find f^(-1), the inverse function. In fact in practise the only way to find f^(-1){k}, the set of numbers which map to

"What would Joe Strummer do?"

2006-03-11T20:02:00.000Z

(seen on a sticker at a bus stop)

American pit bulls, or coursework for school

2006-03-08T22:52:00.000Z

We may be known as a nation of couch potatoes, but it seems that Britons are grasping the 21st century with both hands: we now spend more time watching the web than watching television, according to internet giant Google.A survey conducted on behalf of the search engine found that the average Briton spends around 164 minutes online every day, compared with 148 minutes watching television. That is

currently listening to

2006-03-07T12:42:00.000Z

sploitcast, a radio show about computer security, whatever that is. they talk to a few interesting people and (unlike the good boys of LUGradio) let them ramble on for as long as they like about their subject of expertise, be it magnetic card cloning, google's token authentication, or 'phishing' attacks. the main guy is called harrison, has a lovely east coast voice, and is also a mathematician.

rock on charles babbage,

2006-02-25T05:03:00.000Z

the inventer of the computer, in a letter to alfred lord tennyson"Sir: In your otherwise beautiful poem The Vision of Sin there is a verse which reads: ‘Every moment dies a man / Every moment one is born.’ It must be manifest that, if this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill…I would suggest that in the next edition of your poem you have it read: ‘Every moment dies a

exterity

2006-02-25T01:25:00.000Z

i didn't have time to write anything interesting recently, and i haven't seen any shops with cool names. so i changed the name of my blog for four days, in order to entertain all the low-tech people who have to repeatedly reload my blog to see if it's been updated.hey low-tech people, you should get RSS!and if you don't know what RSS is you should get a MILLENIUM!

that's what they said

2006-02-23T08:13:00.000Z

Jenny was boring, and she made some stupid mistakes. She said she grabbed her titties while she was slowly riding my huge ____. I don’t have a huge ____. I do in R[eal]L[ife], but on S[econd]L[ife] I want to experience life with a normal-sized ____. It’s another case of a girl just saying something unrelated to what’s going on, thinking it will turn the guy on.sl-escort-ratings"Being able to '

bt internet payphone running windows

2006-02-15T18:37:00.000Z

'how to build habitable planet'

2006-02-13T21:07:00.000Z

what someone before me was searching on the library catalogue.

what i do all day II

2006-02-07T23:44:00.000Z

previously on implicity.. i got as far as explaining how to measure the size of some, smooth-edged shapes. as mercedo pointed out, this is basically the integral calculus. and as mikesheffler observed, smooth is all good and well, but what if the shapes you're measuring aren't smooth?the first way of resolving this problem is both straightforward to carry out and conceptually plausible: if you

mouse

2006-02-03T10:05:00.000Z

LEADERSHIP IN OPTIONAL TECHINQUE PRECISIVE ON ALMOST SURFACE

that's what they said, whoever they are

2006-01-28T14:08:00.000Z

But yeah.. Total hell offically started today..a nd ends when the goal is reached...If you feel that you're shy, unusual, highly intelligent, able to sense the emotional states of others, good at judging body language and inordinately pre-occupied with things that most people are not, congratulations! You are just like everybody else.Subject: WANTED - working TV/DVD/Video combi SW4Lack of space

swords, shields and librarians

2006-01-24T18:46:00.000Z

all three sisters now blogging:oldest middle youngestplease don't allow anyone glimpses behind my veil of online mystery, guys.

what i do all day

2006-01-23T22:55:00.000Z

somebody asked me recently what i do for my project, and as usually happens, about halfway through trying to explain what it was about, I realised what it actually is about, and how to explain it.i am trying to prove (actually have proved, now) is a statement about integration, which is basically measurement of shapes. the shapes i am trying to measure are two-dimensional ones, so the whole

a dearth of possible keys

2006-01-22T11:25:00.000Z

the 2wire 1000 series of broadband 'modem'/wireless router, which includes the 1800HG, the standard one recommended by bt for their broadband, comes with 64-bit/40-bit WEP encryption set up by default. the default SSID (network name) is "2WIREXXX" where XXX are the last 3 digits of the serial number, and the default WEP key is printed on the bottom of the unit.the interesting thing about this is:

hello from linux!

2006-01-19T00:28:00.000Z

now working with wireless networking. after faffing around with drivers for fedora core for ooh, about 4 months, everything is now working after 'upgrading' to mandriva 2006 (horrible name).does this mean curtains for windows?the mandriva install gave me some problems in that X wouldn't work at first - it started and then aborted with error message "could not open default font 'fixed'". i fixed

sonja

2006-01-15T19:35:00.000Z

notes & quotes

2006-01-14T18:26:00.000Z

"wait a minute, juanita. make up your mind. this Snow Crash thing - is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"juanita shrugs. "what's the difference?"- snow crash by neal stephensoni remember writing code like this// this is required, or it will not work for some reason *(char*)*va_arg( marker, char * );- the daily WTFpi is not a natural number"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very

disappointing

2006-01-14T00:04:00.000Z

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Robin Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry.My creator studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to

sisters are doing it for themselves

2006-01-09T22:16:00.000Z

little sistermiddle sisterbig sister, there's an amnesty if you come forward now.

there are only twelve stories

2006-01-09T00:39:00.000Z

every story is a variation on one of the twelve. this was known to homer but only now have they been identified:boy meets girlmismatched law enforcement officersseries of murders at large country housesmall girl discovers magic worldlove between cowboysdog walks hometwo men wait in park, nothing happenspriest and other man talk while on trainboy meets girl in dystopian futuresmall-time lawyer

daylight

2006-01-04T23:48:00.000Z

i installed an energy saving light bulb today and i wasn't impressed.it was supposed to be 100w equivalent, which at the time i found hard to believe.then i came into my room after dark and saw this intense whitish light. it's much less yellow than the normal bulb.daylight is very important to me. i have a north facing window and walls the blue colour of the sky when it's at it bluest and

that's what they said

2005-12-19T02:57:00.000Z

"Continues to lose and promotes our guys are usually were nul7ified by Teeth into when about 700 users A full-time GNAA"Anonymous CowardStallman Feeds Self Whole ChickenRichard Stallman stunned a conference on Open Source Software and the Free Software Movement when he took the stage with what appeared to be a whole rotisserie chicken. As shocked attendees watched, he then proceeded to eat the

i love irony

2005-12-14T01:37:00.000Z

a big oil depot went up in smoke a few days ago. i heard some police guy on the radio telling people not to panic buy fuel. he pointed out that panic buying actually causes shortages.it had obviously escaped him that warning people not to panic buy actually causes panic buying.

notes

2005-12-10T21:30:00.000Z

"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."E.W.Howe"Binge drinking describes an extended period of time (typically at least two days) during which a time a person repeatedly becomes intoxicated and gives up his or her usual activities and obligations in order to become intoxicated. It is the combination of prolonged use and the giving up of usual activities

Consider yourself threated

2005-12-10T21:22:00.000Z

"In normal debugged programs, there are usually no math subroutine errors--and therefore no assignments to 'errno' and no 'matherr' calls; in that situation the math functions behave reentrantly."-C math library documentation"If you pass streams by value, the C++ compiler will not complain. However, mysterious bad things will start happening, often in parts of the code which don't appear to be

nowhere continuous bijection of the unit interval onto itself

2005-12-08T21:39:00.000Z

if x is rational: f(x) = xif x is irrational and x < 1/2: f(x) = x + 1/2if x is irrational and x ≥ 1/2: f(x) = x - 1/2given any rational number x, there is an irrational number y as close to it as you like with f(y) about 1/2 away from f(x).similarly, given any irrational number we can find a rational number as close to it as we like, and their images under f will be about 1/2 apart.

democracy: from cradle to grave

2005-12-07T20:19:00.000Z

An activist, Maya Anne Evans, has been prosecuted for ringing a bell by the Cenotaph (a First World War memorial near Downing Street) while her and another protester read out names of British soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed in the US/UK/'coalition' war against Iraq. She fell foul of section 132 of the 'Serious Organised Crime and Police Act', which bans any demonstration taking place within

hah hah hah

2005-12-06T01:15:00.000Z

Looking ahead in 100 years time, how do you think British art of the early 21st century will be regarded? Who are the great artists who will pass the test of time?Charles Saatchi: General art books dated 2105 will be as brutal about editing the late 20th century as they are about almost all other centuries. Every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be

MR LATIF

2005-12-01T07:46:00.000Z

24- HOUR RESULT. NOBODY CAN BEAT LATIF BORN GIFTED!!!If you have a problem that has not been solved by anyone in this world or think your problem is impossible to solve, ring LATIF immediately.Your entire problem will be fulfilled in SEVEN DAYS. For example: business, financial, career, depression, separated from the person you love, domestic problems regarding husbamd, wife childre, health,

more bijections

2005-11-28T04:37:00.000Z

an example of a bijection of the unit interval which is discontinuous at infinitely many points.the animation shows the graph of this bijection as a limit of bijective functions which are discontinuous at 2n points. the function in question is continuous everywhere except points of the form j/2n, for any n and any j≤2n, ie the numbers with binary representations that terminate.(you have to

thinking about bijections

2005-11-26T03:41:00.000Z

..of the unit interval.the unit interval is the segment of the number line between 0 and 1, although any segment comes out to pretty much the same thing, and a bijection is a transformation of the interval so that every point is goes to a unique point and each point has exactly one mapped to it. basically the point (npi!) of all this is that if it's a bijection, it has an inverse; given this

that's whaat they said

2005-11-24T20:23:00.000Z

I wonder if becoming critical is destroying our creativity.dougIt just occurred to me that listening to Goldfrapp is like being hit on by a mid-thirties conceptual artist in an all-white, austere, ultra-hip London gallery.ballingbreadI've been asked by several people why I support the war in Iraq even though I totally disagree with Bush's reasons for waging it.morrighuI wish there was a word for

bookmarks

2005-11-23T23:22:00.000Z

superhuman intelligence is inevitable, as is the end of the human era:The Singularityby Vernor Vinge. interesting. houellebecq also talks about the imminent obsolescence of the human race (by entities with a higher developed capacity for happiness and sexual pleasure, natch) at the end of 'atomised', his most best book.Voices from The HellmouthSlashdot column (?) a few days after Columbine. By

interference

2005-11-20T18:38:00.000Z

my stereo has been making an annoying low buzzing noise and last night i figured out why: the wireless internet connection is interfering with it.choosing between the internet and the radio is like choosing between having arms and having legs.

idiots

2005-11-19T17:20:00.000Z

if i hear one more idiot say "it's time to have a public debate" about something, i'm going to resign my position as a member of the public.

the euclidean algorithm

2005-11-17T21:15:00.000Z

the subject of a lecture this week for the fourth or fifth time in my university career. maybe i chose some of the wrong options this year.i hate euclid.

i love it

2005-11-12T00:29:00.000Z

the bright, grey, clear light from a completely overcast sky that you get in london on a winter's afternoon and nowhere else.it make the whole city look grey and drained and yet more real, more like london than ever.as if the whole summer had just been a dream.

don't ask me what i was googling for

2005-11-09T20:33:00.000Z

Sponsored LinksHigh School TeachersQuality new and used items.Find high school teachers now!www.ebay.com

annoying animated gifs

2005-11-09T17:20:00.000Z

last night at about 3am, i discovered that the sum to infinity of the nth Fibonacci number divided by two the nth power is .. 4!I was quite interested and disappointed at the same time. Interested because I didn't know it (although I should have). Disappointed because if it had been less than four, it would have helped me out quite a bit.The result is not too groundbreaking; if you know what a

bouna and zied

2005-11-06T22:50:00.000Z

Description du Skyblog :BOUNA ET ZIED !! D pote ki nou on kité tro to.rendon leur hommage.TOUT CLICHY EST AVEC VOUS LES GARS[Bouna & Zied !! Friends who left us too soon. let's show them respect. all clichy is with you, guys.]bouna93.skyblog.comHOMMAGE A "ZIED" (17 ANS) ET "BOUNA" (15 ANS) "MORT POUR RIEN" ! ! !De 78, posté le Samedi 05 novembre 2005 à 16:14je connaissai pa ces 2 mec mé en tt k

make my day

2005-11-06T21:08:00.000Z

i'm trying to install linux wireless drivers on my new computer, Sonja, and it's not going well.for some reason the Readme file is telling me to invoke 'make' with a option SUBDIRS=blahblahblah and make either isn't finding blahblahblah or isn't finding the files that should be there or thinks that something else is somewhere it isn't or just hates me.reboot Windows, reboot Linux..

quite clever

2005-11-05T01:33:00.000Z

a 'visitor' had this as his browser identification lineDefault 0.00Get an interest free line of credit of upto 100,000,000.00 CBD just for signing up and pay back whenever you want! (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Get an interest free line of credit of upto 100,000,000.00 CBD just for signiwhat is a CBD?

the blt i had for lunch

2005-11-04T17:03:00.000Z

gives the percentages of each ingredient used:malted brown bread (42%)sweetcure smoke flavoured bacon (17%)tomato (17%)iceberg lettuce (11%)seasoned mayonnaise (10%)butter (not stated but presumably 3% +/- rounding errors)malted brown bread contains: wheat flour; water; malted wheat flakes; wheat bran; malted wheat and barley flours; yeast; salt; wheat protein; spirit vinegar; vegetable fat;

bumper sticker

2005-10-31T15:46:00.000Z

GOD LOVES YOUWHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

91

2005-10-31T02:02:00.000Z

if you want to remember the prime numbers up to 100:1 isn't a prime, unless you reckon it is, in which case it might be.the even numbers end in 0, 2 ,4 ,6 or 8 and aren't primes (except 2)multiples of three have digits which sum to a multiple of 3 and aren't primes (except 3)odd multiples of 5 end in 5 and aren't primes (except 5)multiples of 11 have two digits the same and aren't primes (except

happy weierstrass day

2005-10-31T01:50:00.000Z

his 190th birthday.

definitions

2005-10-27T20:58:00.000+01:00

the reason noone has come up with a good definition of what mathematics is because all the people who know what it is are not interested in playing word games. they have games of their own.

'chebyshev'

2005-10-26T14:23:00.000+01:00

"At least five different transliterations of this name exist in the literature."A very useful footnote in a damn useful book Probability, by John Lamperti

i knew that

2005-10-25T12:08:00.000+01:00

John Dvorak, moaning about photo editing software, hits the nail on the head:"Microsoft has a tendency to combine powerful tools with the dumbed-down "What do you want to do?" interface more than any single company."

a poem my printer wrote me

2005-10-23T17:38:00.000+01:00

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