Sunday, November 18, 2012

Is Twitter Wrong?: Is that really a picture of India from space during Diwali?

istwitterwrong:

No.

It’s actually, as Simon Ricketts points out, a false-colour composite image…

Posted at 6:06 PM 40 notes Reblogged from istwitterwrong
Thursday, October 25, 2012
nerdsforobama: Not a funny post, but an important one. Real candidates actually said these things in the year 2012. Hard to believe, but true. NO MORE RAPE APOLOGISTS! -via Electablog

nerdsforobama:

Not a funny post, but an important one. Real candidates actually said these things in the year 2012. Hard to believe, but true. NO MORE RAPE APOLOGISTS! -via Electablog

Posted at 3:03 PM 679 notes Reblogged from nerdsforobama Tags: the republican party GOP rape
“I guess I am like Forrest Gump…I am like a sewing machine needle that goes in here and goes in there, but I am also the éminence grise: the grey, shadowy figure in the background. The thing about me is I get things done and I work under cover.” Jimmy Savile (speaking in 2008)
Posted at 2:58 PM 1 note Tags: jimmy savile éminence grise
This is clearly theoretical physics of the highest order: it looks like a Feynman diagram showing two mesons exchanging a photon in a closed time loop… …up your bum. (originally from here)

This is clearly theoretical physics of the highest order: it looks like a Feynman diagram showing two mesons exchanging a photon in a closed time loop…

…up your bum.

(originally from here)

Posted at 7:00 AM Tags: feynman physics graffiti toilet students
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

We regret to inform you that your paper has not been accepted

researchinprogress:

as a PhD student:

as a post-doc:

as a professor:


by Nikolaj

Posted at 7:15 PM 71 notes Reblogged from researchinprogress
Sunday, October 14, 2012
“You are not a grandee, you’re a fucking blandee. No one knew what the fuck you stood for. Political fucking mist. No substance, no weight. You’ve got all the charm of a rotting teddy bear by a graveside. By the way, women fucking hate you. I can show you the polling. They think you come across like a jittery mother at a wedding. The best thing you ever did in your flatlining non-leadership was call for an inquiry because that will fuck the government and it will fuck you. So now, please, fuck off back to your home, you headless frump, and prepare for your column in Grazia.” Malcolm Tucker (via merseytart)
Posted at 10:27 AM 13 notes Reblogged from emmajaynesinfiniteplaylist
Thursday, October 11, 2012
cousinsvenslarder: URLs are tricky, man

cousinsvenslarder:

URLs are tricky, man

Posted at 1:48 AM 3 notes Reblogged from cousinsvenslarder
Friday, July 13, 2012

Mahdi Yusuf: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

dustyprogrammer:

I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know what keys are pressed…

Posted at 10:09 AM 462 notes Reblogged from dustyprogrammer
Sunday, July 8, 2012
inrng: L’Equipe’s headline about Bradley Wiggins, quoting him from yesterday’s post-race press conference. I doubt his home newspapers in Britain opted for the same title.

inrng:

L’Equipe’s headline about Bradley Wiggins, quoting him from yesterday’s post-race press conference. I doubt his home newspapers in Britain opted for the same title.

Posted at 7:19 AM 13 notes Reblogged from inrng
Thursday, May 10, 2012

A set of Computer Science blogs

My blog post on some of the top (IMHO) Computer Science research blogs has received more than 45,000 hits over the past two days after being posted on Y Combinators News and featuring on the WordPress home page. Crazy!

Posted at 11:22 AM Tags: computer science mathematics research technology programming computation computing