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Monday night Irish class, August 9, 2010
Irish Class, August 9. 2010
Rang Gaeilge, 9ú lá Mí na Lúnasa 2010
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Go Maolaí Air “May he back off”
pt. 7
Scríofa ag Wes Koster
Women in Mathematics
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal via Skepchick.
Sex and Roman coins
At Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog. Pictures definitely NSFW.
On the current Blackberry controversy….
Gulf states order Blackberry users to cover their phones in a tiny burqa
Some businessmen believe that making their phone wear a burqa can be very liberating. “It’s great,” said one, “with the veil in place I am free to walk about with my Blackberry in public without the feeling that people are staring lustily at my multi-media application. It also covers my shame for not owning an iPhone.”
The Saudi government have promised that anyone who refuses to dress their Blackberry in a burqa will face harsh punishment. “I am not saying exactly what we will do,” said their Minister for Justice, “but suffice to say that it isn’t so easy to text with your toes.”
Via BoingBoing
Don’t be a Spock!
Stepping through time
Russian photographer (and Photoshopper) Sergey Larenkov merges WWII-era photos with contemporary shots of identical locations in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Leningrad, and other European cities, to haunting effect.
For Sale
Who were the building contractors? Do they have any outstanding liens on the property? :-)>
Computing as it was
I was digging through some old files and found a wonderful letter to the editor of Datamation from 1983. Fortunately, it has been preserved for posterity on the web:
Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal.
Back then I was starting a phase of my career in which I did a lot of FORTRAN programming, which lasted until about 1990.
No Big Bang? Not so fast….
Big Bang
There have been a number of stories like
Theory
suggests universe without Big Bang in the media.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 