MATHEMATICS

• Steamed Dagoth Ur
• Hyper-Detailed, Picture-Filled Pre-War History Of The Ocarina
• Automatic Box Plan Generator
• banned.h
• Gut-wrenching: Italian Waiter Grinds Fresh Black Pepper Onto Daughter’s Grave
• Byrne's Euclid is a strange Victorian edition of Euclid using colours instead of letters. I'm not sure whether it's really easier for children, but it is interesting to look at. Some excellent person made a classy online edition.

Logic can be used to solve problems, but it cannot suggest which problems to try. No one has ever formalized significance. To recognize what is significant you need a certain amount of experience, plus that elusive quality: intuition.

• From 1949: Drawing for Beginners Part 3: The Square. Surprisingly relaxing. Thank God for not renewing copyrights.
• Nobody knows what the 'c' in calloc stands for.
• 8/2(2*2) = 1. A response to some recent heated Internet BEDMAS debates.
• Weird Universe asks which is more boring: Innovations of the Modern Tractor, or Timber Bridge Inspection in Oregon.
• Oldie but goodie: Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming.
• The full version of the comic pictured above.

• A giant Marilyn Monroe statue ended up in a Chinese dump.
• In movie news, the Cats trailer (probably not safe to show children) makes the Sonic trailer look like some kind of CGI Mona Lisa.
• On the other hand, one of the actors from the best Canadian show right now is going to star in a Marvel superhero movie with Tony Leung of In The Mood For Love/Bullet In The Head fame, and Awkwafina of Queefing Like A Chief fame. When she became a big movie star she removed the original video, which is humanity's loss.
• Learn the Lambda Calculus through a children's game.
• "Did Jesus poop?"
• David Bowie's secret obsession with Memphis Design.

• Feeling down? Listen to an hour of Jen Kirkman improvising as Abbie Hoffman.
• Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths is hypnotic to read, although the entries for the last few years are badly-maintained.
• Someone went through a lot of effort to nicely format the public domain classic Calculus Made Easy for the web.
• The creator of Erlang recently passed away. Once he wrote an excellent thing on Elixir and OOP in general.
• Twitter must have been down for ten minutes, because BBC News ran a story which is not only not about tweets, but which is not 85% Twitter commentary. Deaths after surgery in Scotland have dropped by more than a third after implementing a checklist. I once had a boss yell at me for making checklists, as he felt memorizing constantly-changing daily tasks was some kind of macho thing, and making lists was effeminate. He was not as smart as a surgeon.
• They just released the source for a bunch of old Infocom games, including the early Zorks, all written in an old LISP dialect, whose manual you can read here. Take a second to let that all sink in. Sample data:

<OBJECT SANDWICH-BAG
	(LOC KITCHEN-TABLE)
	(SYNONYM BAG SACK)
	(ADJECTIVE BROWN ELONGATED SMELLY)
	(DESC "brown sack")
	(FLAGS TAKEBIT CONTBIT BURNBIT)
	(FDESC
"On the table is an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers.")
	(CAPACITY 9)
	(SIZE 9)
>