Monthly Archives: October 2003

True or false — From ”Calculus for Dummies”: Regarding the infinite, if you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far enough, you’ll find a number with so many zeros to the right … Continue reading →

Incoming President Brands Silber "Paranoid Megalomaniac" If I didn’t actually work for the bastards I would think this is the funniest story to come out of higher education in years.  On the eve of his installation, the Board of Trustees … Continue reading →

"That’s like looking for the Playboy centerfold who also holds a degree from MIT and loves to cook." Jackboot libertarian and talk-show host Jay Severin on the job requirements announced for the position of Red Sox manager.

One of the most powerful solar flares in years erupted from giant sunspot 486 this morning at approximately 1110 UT. The blast measured X17 on the Richter scale of solar flares . As a result of the explosion, a strong … Continue reading →

Who knew there were fish on Mars?  And we should distrust their efforts to be counted? I’ll have to start keeping a closer watch on the news…. On land the demand is to know, with certainty, how many fish are … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Prosecutors looking to throw the book at accused computer hackers have come across a legal defence expected to become even more widespread in an era of hijacked PCs and laptops that threatens to blur the lines … Continue reading →

Undergraduates with time on their hands are the Mother’s of Invention, as the history of Napster clearly shows. Now a pair of 20ish MIT students have come up with a workaround for the RIAA’s labyrintian limitations on digital music distribution … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO–They can turn brown eyes blue or human eyes to monster eyes. Decorative, or costume, contact lenses can be a fun way to change one’s looks, especially for Halloween. However, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association, … Continue reading →

from Despair.com

Here is a story which features ESL, another American Blogger in Korea (where do they all come from?), international relations, irrational hatred and baseball. How could I resist? “Mr. Lee:

Wow! It must have looked like a commuter’s version of Usama’s Martyr’s Paradise. What an idea for a FlashMob – now that one I would go to. Hundreds of women have stripped naked at New York’s main railway station to … Continue reading →

I knew there must be some logical explanation as to why my Summer students gave me such low evaluations. It couldn’t have been just because I taught the class largely by remote control fron an isolated fishing cabin in the Yukon … Continue reading →