February 2010
January 2010
hipstertracks:
Sometime Around Midnight - The...
“The big banks are considering challenging President Obama’s proposed tax on very...”
– Dan Gross (via newsweek) (via spaceships)
city-love:
tattoosandcupcakes:
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“God and the Devil are one, the majesty co-eternal, not two uncreated but one...”
– Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (via smut-to-go)
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Quantum Bogosort →
dailymeh:
Bogosort is a perversely awful sorting algorithm: it’s equivalent to throwing a deck of cards in the air, assembling the deck randomly, and repeating until the deck is sorted. (Worst case running time: forever.) However! Quantum computing to the rescue:
An in-joke among some computer scientists is that quantum computing could be used to effectively implement a bogosort with a time...
deeza:
Department of Eagles - Teenagers
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough (via pacificcru) (via kendalllouise) (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland)
“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via rwatuny)
On Doppelgängers (Happy Birthday, Poe*)
petitchou:
“In me didst thou exist — and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”
-Edgar Allan Poe, from William Wilson
“You! hypocrite lecteur! — mon semblance, — mon frere!” (translation: “hypocrite reader, — my alias, — my twin!”)
-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; via Charles Baudelaire, Fleurs du Mal
“As I passed the entrance I...
AP: Magnitude 6.1 aftershock hits Haiti →
inothernews:
A strong earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by a previous quake.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.1 magnitude quake hit at 6:03 a.m. (1103 GMT) about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It struck at a...
