Monday, October 31, 2005

What's Special About Your Favorite Number?

Lots of interesting mathematical facts about numbers.

I didn't bother reading them all but some were rather funny. If you find a gem, share it!

Mine is the largest number divisible by all numbers less than its square root.

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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Brothers fined for keeping pet ghost

A village council in eastern India has fined two brothers for keeping a pet ghost.

An exorcist summoned by villagers claimed the brothers' pet ghost was "responsible for a recent outbreak of disease in the locality".

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I can only be thankful that this was not in my own town, thought it would not have surprised me.

And I pray that this is a hoax.
Happy Halloween everyone!

Friday, October 28, 2005

NASA: "Einstein Is a Space Alien!"

NASA has published an article disscusing the possibility of Einstein being a space alien.

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OK they actually say the opposite but an interesting read none the less.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

The New Yorker reveals fake word in Dictionary

Even dictionaries employ DRM now. The New Yorker reveals the fake word placed in the New Oxford American Dictionary to monitor the illegal copying of their word base.

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Proof Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

A extremely comprehensive website by Tom Grant, the man who investigated the 'suicide' and interviewed Courtney Love and Cobain's friends and family. Seems like quite a bit of evidence supporting his murder to me.

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