The delta-V at which I am approaching death has increased because I was crammed into an aluminum tube with two hundred sneezing strangers who unburdened their diseases upon me, and whom I […]
Lottery Simulator; Science Reporting; More
Bit busy today, folks. Here’s some interesting links. Typo warning level 5. Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator! That’s the creator’s name for it: I find it exhilarating and nicely done. His […]
Predictions of E-Books And Reading Verified?
Just something quick today; I mean written quickly. Typo alert! Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published “Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books“, in which are various observations that appear to verify […]
How To Guarantee Enthusiastic College Students
I Didn’t Do My Homework Apathy is contagious. I discovered this after only two of the forty-five students registered for the statistics class I teach bothered to do their homework over the […]
Reading Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball
First, thanks, Google. Aren’t you all sweethearts. 10100 != F1 + F4 + F6 + F9. Reading Lyrics: More than a thousand of the finest lyrics from 1900 to 1975. A Celebration […]
USDA Bans Delicacy? Pork Blood Cake Candles Snuffed Out
Continuing our popular theme of pig innards, we focus today on blood, and prove that there is a little vampire in all of us. Yet our bureaucrats seek to disguise their nature. […]
Robert Messenger’s Weekly Standard “Theirs But To Do Or Die”
Drop everything and head over to the Weekly Standard and read Robert Messenger’s “Theirs But To Do Or Die.” The subtitle of his piece is “Dien Bien Phu and the twilight of […]
Horrible College Fashion: Both Professors And Students
I told the kid about to take exam that if he could write an essay successfully justifying why he chose to wear his unusual hat and kept it on indoors, I would […]
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