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  • More maths fun

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    It’s no Gomboc, but the boy produced this earlier today using a maths renderer. The function is f(x,y) = (πx3)×y He also thinks you all should know about Acid2, which test your browser to see if it is latest-standards compliant.

  • Can’t blog

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    Watching The Lord of The Rings. All of them.

  • Gomboc!

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    “A shape whose impossibility might have been an elegant theorem, but whose existence may be much more elegant.” – Chandler-Davis, editor-in-chief, The Mathematical Intelligencer Presenting: The Gomboc! I’m no mathematician, but this is cool. The Gomboc is the world’s first… Read More ›

  • Saturday Night Cheezburger

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  • Going straight into the quotes file

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    Presumably a few of you have noticed the random quote block towards the bottom of the sidebar? I’ve been having a bit of fun with that. Via fillyjonk: Speaking of stages, I think there are stages of perception: 1. When… Read More ›

  • It just won’t seem like a real Australian Open

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    Roger Federer will not be playing in the final. He got done in straight sets, too. Where are the comets, the pillars of fire? (The wailing and gnashing of teeth I’m pretty sure I can hear in the background.)

  • Fong Gonged

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    The most highly paid civil servant in the country, chaplain and footy bigwig Neale Fong, has fallen off his golden Health Department perch. Fongy has been under investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission for some months in relation to… Read More ›

  • Featured search term of the week

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    Do any bloggers or website owners here not obsessively look at Referer strings? I’m fascinated by them, as you may have gathered by previous posts “Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.” and “Girls in white gumboots and fat chicks… Read More ›

  • The Rotting Cryptkeeper is at it again

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    Via a commentor at Larvatus Prodeo, I discovered that Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, is planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger as a “fag enabler”. As I’ve blogged before, the WBC’s funeral-picketing… Read More ›

  • One man’s persistence

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    is probably a large part of the reason why the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to send all its documents investigating reported UFO sightings to the National Archive where they may be readily examined by the interested public…. Read More ›