[url]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr03/2012/12/14/18/enhanced-buzz-9767-1355526644-12.jpg[/url]

A subset of [URL="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y"]this[/URL]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlyTq-xVkQE[/url]
I wonder what the smallest number of clues is that can be used for all sudoku grids. Could this be proven?

[QUOTE=henryzz;322085][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlyTq-xVkQE[/url]
I wonder what the smallest number of clues is that can be used for all sudoku grids. Could this be proven?[/QUOTE]
There is, or was, a project dedicated to figuring out the answer to that question. Last I heard, he temporarily shelved the project until home computers became more powerful.

Maybe if you Google boinc sudoku project it'll show up, or just go to the boinc projects wiki. Not sure if it'd still be there.

I swear, this is the worst name choice ever. They might think it's funny, but it's liable to bring the crazies out of the woodwork.

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20781625[/url]

Fighting the patent trolls
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57560405/patent-trolls-how-some-say-theyre-hurting-u.s-economy/[/url]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/wheel-fortune-contestant-loses-thousands-over-dropped-g-174458054--abc-news-topstories.html[/url]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/dental-assistant-fired-being-irresistible-devastated-151724600--abc-news-topstories.html[/url]

ISPs serving vigilante copyright justice

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/tech/web/six-strikes-internet/index.html[/url]

[QUOTE=henryzz;322085][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlyTq-xVkQE[/URL]
I wonder what the smallest number of clues is that can be used for all sudoku grids. Could this be proven?[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0749"]arxiv.org/abs/1201.0749[/URL]: There Is No 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem

This is proof by exhaustive search. It doesn't offer much insight, but it does answer the question.

--Scott

Very old news, but should be very interesting to Americans.

[url]http://www.boston-tea-party.org/british-view-new.html[/url]

This isn't news, but it fits the title.

Why is it that when you get in line, the front of the line is the end, but the back of the line is the beginning? When you go on a trip, the goal is the end and the starting point is the beginning.

So, if you think of standing in line as a trip, the beginning of the line is the end, and the end of the line is the beginning.

Oh, and to reference more commonly thought about stuff, English is the only language in which your nose runs and your feet smell.

[QUOTE=jasong;322861]This isn't news, but it fits the title.

Why is it that when you get in line, the front of the line is the end, but the back of the line is the beginning? [/QUOTE]
It's not where I'm from.

[QUOTE=jasong;322861]Why is it that when you get in line, the front of the line is the end, but the back of the line is the beginning? When you go on a trip, the goal is the end and the starting point is the beginning.

So, if you think of standing in line as a trip, the [STRIKE]beginning[/STRIKE] [B]front[/B] of the line is the end, and the [STRIKE]end[/STRIKE] [B]back[/B] of the line is the beginning.[/QUOTE]

FTFY

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

:razz:

[SIZE=1][SIZE=1]Snake1: [/SIZE]That new razz smilie is disturbing![/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;322884][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]Snake1: [/SIZE]That new razz smilie is disturbing![/SIZE][/QUOTE]
Agree. Always liked the "yucky" better, it looks like a grumpy razz: :yucky:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;322884]Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

:razz:

[SIZE=1][SIZE=1]Snake1: [/SIZE]That new razz smilie is disturbing![/SIZE][/QUOTE]If a servant boy is the same as a boy servant, why is a house dog different from a dog house?

Why is [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/"]Eat Drink Man Woman[/URL] different from [I]Drink, Man Eat Woman?[/I]

[url]https://cp4space.wordpress.com[/url]

[url]http://blog.motorcycle.com/2012/12/24/motorcycle-category/standard/sunken-motorcycle-fished-out-of-a-lake-after-56-years/[/url]

[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-03/bored-truck-driver-heads-to-syria-as-a-war-tourist/4452056[/url]

Well here's something I was rather shocked to find out. My grandpa has a blog. A bit less shocking is that it's about programming -- it's less shocking to me because he has a Ph.D. in math (because in his time CS wasn't its own major yet).

[url]http://winslowscomputingblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-do-you-write-program-overview-topic.html[/url]

[quote]The topic for today is problem solving. I will present the subject in terms of writing computer programs, but the general principles are common to many areas besides computing. In fact, I took many of the principles below from a math book (“How to solve It” by G. Polya) and from several psychology books.

Most people start their education in computing by learning a computer programming language. There are introductory books, manuals, and tutorials to teach the basics of most computer programming languages. These usually make it straightforward to learn the syntax and semantics of a computer programming language. (Note that I did not say easy; I just said straightforward.) A lot of help is available.

Knowing a computer language is not enough. More important is"How do you use it to write a program?" Just knowing a language may not tell you where to start or how to proceed. After all, we all know how to speak some natural language, for instance, English, but that gives us no hint as to how to write a book in English. Unfortunately,there are very few books, manuals, or tutorials that really tell you where to start or how to proceed to write a computer program.. [/quote]

[url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/12/19/167539764/the-landfill-harmonic-an-orchestra-built-from-trash[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;324086][url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/12/19/167539764/the-landfill-harmonic-an-orchestra-built-from-trash[/url][/QUOTE]

This makes the 3rd different venue that I have seen this story pop up (spread out over a month or so). The first was on Linked In (it was relevant to the group), second on facebook about 2 1/2 weeks later, now here 2 1/2 weeks later.

"What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
 

[url]http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp[/url]

[URL="http://www.livescience.com/26153-einstein-space-time-smooth.html"]Einstein was right, space-time is smooth, not foamy[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/keeping-kilogram-constant/"]Standard Kilogram gaining weight[/URL]

Where to post?
 

I genuinely don't know where to post this one. It also fits in the Science and Technology fora and the Mystery Economic areas. I'll let you decide on a report about [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693"]a guy outsourcing his own job[/URL].

[QUOTE=xilman;324955]I genuinely don't know where to post this one. It also fits in the Science and Technology fora and the Mystery Economic areas. I'll let you decide on a report about [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693"]a guy outsourcing his own job[/URL].[/QUOTE]

That is brilliant! My partner says, "Someone so innovative should have gotten a raise!" My response is that once the company realized that his job could be outsourced, they eliminated the middle man.

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/1/"]Newegg crushed a patent troll[/URL] :smile:

[QUOTE=Dubslow;326267][URL="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/1/"]Newegg crushed a patent troll[/URL] :smile:[/QUOTE]

I was just about to post that here, too.

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21091066"]'Quadruple helix' DNA seen in human cells[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347775/description/Protons_radius_revised_downward"]Proton's radius revised downward[/URL]

[QUOTE=Dubslow;326267][URL="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/1/"]Newegg crushed a patent troll[/URL] :smile:[/QUOTE]

This is a remarkable and truly welcome development. I wish that someone could successfully take on Monsanto and its claims of patented GE crops which contaminate non-GE farmers' fields. Unfortunately, the average farmer does not have the legal firepower of NewEgg.

5 Seriously Mind-Boggling Math Facts
 

This turned up as an "also interesting" link on the page with a news report of the new Mersenne Prime discovery.

[url]http://www.livescience.com/26584-5-mind-boggling-math-facts.html[/url]

Perhaps these are not boggling to the mathematicians here, but they do the job for me. I am curious about the "only 17 wallpaper patterns" item's proof or justification. Prime, or "Ulam spirals" are also pretty neat, especially in light of all the "proposed and disposed of" conjectures about patterns of M Primes.

[QUOTE=kladner;327782]This turned up as an "also interesting" link on the page with a news report of the new Mersenne Prime discovery.

[url]http://www.livescience.com/26584-5-mind-boggling-math-facts.html[/url]

Perhaps these are not boggling to the mathematicians here, but they do the job for me. I am curious about the "only 17 wallpaper patterns" item's proof or justification. Prime, or "Ulam spirals" are also pretty neat, especially in light of all the "proposed and disposed of" conjectures about patterns of M Primes.[/QUOTE]

Number 5 (the first) is completely misworded. There is a grain of truth hidden by charades of improper use of the word "random". (To be clear, in a set of random numbers, there is no "more common" first digit. However, in a set of numbers n[sub]i[/sub] where [i]log[/i](n[sub]i[/sub]) is randomly distributed, then the first digits of the n[sub]i[/sub] are skewed lower, simply because of the log. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law[/url])

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group"]Wiki on the wallpaper thing[/URL]

Many thanks! :smile:

The 3-dimensional (crystallographic) space group is the next wallpaper extension. There are 230 of them.

For determining the protein structure, X-ray crystallography is used, and because proteins (and DNA) are chiral objects, they cannot form crystals of approximately half of these space groups (those that involve reflection). Take, for example P2[SUB]1[/SUB]2[SUB]1[/SUB]2[SUB]1[/SUB]; I remember that almost a quarter of the PDB structures were in this group. Using space groups together with Fast Fourier Transform in some challenging stuff to write, but for some groups it provides for significant acceleration of computations. (Well, it is already written for many, if not all groups.)

Re: recent discovery under car park:

[QUOTE=cheesehead;328002]Re: recent discovery under car park:[/QUOTE]


[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Sues_skeleton.jpg/220px-Sues_skeleton.jpg[/IMG]

Sue pwns Richard IIII.

[URL="http://extramustard.si.com/2013/02/08/worlds-most-incredible-video-game-collection-is-selling-for-550k-on-ebay/"]World’s Most Incredible Video Game Collection Selling For $550K[/URL]
Looking at the Ebay listing, it is for 10 days and has one bid so far. This is in Milan, Italy and the English language description is decently good. I like this last bit of disclosure: [QUOTE]All the games are stored in a basement with the right temperature, not too hot, not too cold, no humidity, no smoke and no direct light. [B]I have a pet but he’s not interested in videogames...[/B][/QUOTE]

One of the only effective uses of [SPOILER][COLOR=white]white colored text[/COLOR][/SPOILER] that I had seen. (I have it. Autographed, too.)

We Seriously Need to Sign This Guy Up
 

Here's something I got wind of from an email bulletin.

[URL]http://www.overclock.net/t/1276524/odd-gpu-overheating-issues-on-new-watercooling-build#post_17602778[/URL]

Here is the meat of the matter-
[CODE]
CPU: Core i7-3960X (O.C.'d to 3.9 GHz currently)
GPU: 3 x EVGA GTX 580's
CPU Waterblock: Swiftech APOGEE HD Ultimate Extreme Performance Water Block
GPU Waterblock: eVGA Hydro Copper 2 Waterblock for GTX 580
Radiators: 1 x Black Ice GTX Extreme 120 and 1 x Black Ice GTX Extreme 360
[/CODE]Talk about a "farm in a box"!

EDIT: I wonder if he's got a 240v circuit to run that thing.

Maybe I should start a "Perpetual Darwin Awards" or "Perpetual Karma" thread.

[URL="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/02/12/heart-attack-grill-pokesman-dies-heart-attack/"]"Heart Attack Grill" spokesman dies of heart attack[/URL]

[url]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80330&src=eoa-iotd[/url]

An amazing sight!

[i]Dude[/i]

[youtube]6Vh7WMnMU_w[/youtube]

And it's available for Linux too!

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/farm-theme-boosts-enrollment-rural-kansas-school-194623036.html[/url]

I found out about this a few days ago and it hits my funnybone somehow.
Take a look at this caricature.
[URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Legendre.jpg"]Legendre.jpg[/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien-Marie_Legendre#Portrait_debacle"]Portrait debacle[/URL][QUOTE]For two centuries, until the recent discovery of the error in 2005, books, paintings and articles have incorrectly shown a side-view portrait of the obscure French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797) as that of the mathematician Legendre. The error arose from the fact that the sketch was labelled simply "Legendre". The only known portrait of Legendre, recently unearthed, is found in the 1820 book Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de I’Institut, a book of caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians by the French artist Julien-Leopold Boilly as shown below:[3][/QUOTE]
This Wikipedia entry is in error in the last sentence. The reference that Wikipedia uses notes that (in addition to Legendre & Fourier), "The collection [1] also contains a caricature of Laplace, but no other mathematicians are represented." It's been a long time since I've edited Wikipedia...

Duren, Peter (December 2009). [URL="http://www.ams.org/notices/200911/rtx091101440p.pdf"]"Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre"[/URL]. Notices of the AMS 56 (11): 1440–1443, 1455.
[QUOTE]Once the traditional portrait was known to be false, a feverish search began for a true portrait of Adrien-Marie Legendre.Miraculously, an authentic portrait was discovered during the year 2008 in the library of the Institut de France in Paris, among a rare collection [1] of seventy-three caricatures of members of the Institute. One of the watercolor sketches (depicted on the cover of this issue of the Notices) shows the heads of Legendre and Fourier, with bodies lightly sketched in pencil. Their names “Legendre” and “Fourier” are written below the sketch. Fourier is easily recognized from existing portraits, but Legendre takes on a totally new appearance. This is the only image of Adrien-Marie Legendre known to exist.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-secrets-human-speech-uncovered-brain.html"]Secrets of human speech uncovered[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221143900.htm"]Bumblebees Find and Distinguish Electric Signals from Flowers[/URL]

[URL="http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/hobbit-makeup-braids-and-all/?ref=arts"]‘Hobbit’ Makeup, Yak Hair and All[/URL]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/oreo-separator-video-192305524.html[/url]

"we are sorry, this video is not available at your location", that is why I don't use yahoo anymore since about an year, moved my mail accounts too (those used for diferent purposes except job and serious things, to which I have serous mail account), from @yahoo to @gmail.

[QUOTE=LaurV;331340]"we are sorry, this video is not available at your location", [B]that is why I don't use yahoo anymore[/B] since about an year, moved my mail accounts too (those used for diferent purposes except job and serious things, to which I have serous mail account), from @yahoo to @gmail.[/QUOTE]
Nonsequitur much?
The video is ...on youtube! How can yahoo possibly help your grudge?
Now that you moved to gmail - you obviously can see the video?!
[YOUTUBE]pii4G8FkCA4[/YOUTUBE]
You do know that youtube is owned by google? If against anyone, you grudge should be directed at your new landlord - google.

When I click on the posted link, the article AND the video ARE ON YAHOO. And there is no reference to youtube and no link to it. THIS (below) is what I see, before and after clicking the play button, and I had no time to search for the guy. This only happens to things linked through yahoo, since about one year ago. I can see the video linked by you (on youtube) perfectly. You may want to reconsider your ranting... :razz:


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[QUOTE=LaurV;331347]When I click on the posted link, the article AND the video ARE ON YAHOO. And there is no reference to youtube and no link to it. THIS (below) is what I see, before and after clicking the play button, and I had no time to search for the guy.[/QUOTE]
Huh? Search?
There is no reference to youtube? There is no link? Amazing!

Man, I have no reason to lie to you. Outside of US, yahoo news sucks. I was big fan yahoo once, long ago. I DON'T see a link in the text. I however can read the caption under the photo, but somehow did not see it first time :blush:

And here is a proof that I [U]can[/U] see the youtube video, so, again, your uppercuts related to google or whatever, were uncalled for (no matter if I know or not who is owning what).

Not to say outside of US, but at least here locally, yahoo sucks, and it is not from my provider (different at home and job). You can call me whatever, you may even be right in calling me that, but you will not succeed in changing my opinion. I don't have many ideas, but those I have are well fixed... :razz:

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I have no feeling towards any of them! They are tools! I am using none of them or any of them that happen to provide me with the link to the real source material. If I hear about a blurb about ENCODE project, I will only read until the link to the Science or Nature or PNAS source and I will take it from there.*

I have no desire to change your opinion on providers of news or mail.

I am just asking for polite discourse and a bit of logic. So, you canceled your [I]email [/I]provider because their [I]news [/I]service sucked? And today you simply (publicly and w/o an apparent reason) lashed out at them because you did not read the news but jumped to vitriol as soon as you saw the bottom window? You know what is there? There's an invariable blond who would poorly read the webpage copntent for you - [B]that's all[/B]. (of all content providers I only watch those videos at [URL="http://www.theonion.com/video/new-miss-america-in-danger-of-losing-crown-after-o,31072/"]oniontv[/URL] - for obvious reasons, i.e. lols; for everything else, if/when I will go blind, there's Microsoft Sam voice-over.) The video in question (I would imagine) they won't even be able to embed - they are competitors in business and they will only lie in bed occasionally and with mutual disgust. ;-) Only if there was money to be made for both of them. So you parse the news until the first blue link and you are done! (Beware: of course, there exist fake links. But Chuck Norris never visits such fake news pages. Neither do I.)

____________
*and here is how I "read" the weather. You think I watch TV "on the 8s"? read the write-ups? Or listen to the blond who will be talking about every neighborhood in San Diego and mangle numbers along the way? No. I simply click a single bookmarked link that will give me the radar, [URL="http://radar.wunderground.com/data/nids/NKX19_anim.gif"]local[/URL] and [URL="http://radar.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xradard1_anim.gif"]regional[/URL]. I can tell you from these - when the rain is (if ever) going to hit, accurate to a few minutes.

"5 Other Americans Who Were Kinda, Sorta President"

[url]http://mentalfloss.com/article/48969/5-other-americans-who-were-kinda-sorta-president[/url]

[QUOTE=cheesehead;332123]
[url]http://mentalfloss.com/article/48969/5-other-americans-who-were-kinda-sorta-president[/url][/QUOTE]

My favorite magazine. I strongly recommend to everyone. I have yet to find someone who does not enjoy it. My kids even read parts of it.

[url]http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332155][URL]http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical[/URL][/QUOTE]


This is one of my pet peeves. Punctuated correctly is not the same as grammatically good. These are punctuated correctly and so, therefore, a type of grammatical. But it is bad grammar. Good grammar removes ambiguity and aids in understanding.

These are interesting in the sense of things that make you go hmmmm, but utterly useless in understanding how to use language well.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332155]gramatical[/QUOTE]
Wonderful! Clicking bookmarking. :smile:
Thanks!

edit @chappy: Ye somehow right, too. Not terrible useful. But is fun.

[url]http://www.horg.com/horg/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332214][url]http://www.horg.com/horg/[/url][/QUOTE]
If we can't stop 3-year olds from eating random stuff they find, what hope does the animal kingdom have of surviving?

Has anyone ever created plastic that quickly dissolves in gastric acid? It'd cause a hell of a stomachache, but at least it wouldn't stay in the stomach. Though it might be worse if it gives the animal the ability to absorb the plastic more.

Edit: Suddenly seems appropriate that the website has the term "horg" in it twice. Just like with Linux commands, sounds like the literal sound of a bodily function.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332155][URL]http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical[/URL][/QUOTE]

And then there were six...
The buffalo sentence should contain underlines whenever the Linnean name is given.

[QUOTE=jasong;332240]Has anyone ever created plastic that quickly dissolves in gastric acid?[/QUOTE]
Something like this? [url]http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-1564/Peanuts/Biodegradable-Peanuts-12-Cubic-Ft-Bag?model=S-1564[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;332246]Something like this? [url]http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-1564/Peanuts/Biodegradable-Peanuts-12-Cubic-Ft-Bag?model=S-1564[/url][/QUOTE]
They'd probably have to make a new recipe that makes it much denser, but that could definitely work. The only problem is you can't leave it out in the rain.

There's some pretty damn good trolling in the 2012 IOCCC Makefile.


(This one I think is best left without a link. Those who are curious may find it themselves.)

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/neglected-prisoner-gets-15-5-million-serving-22-181425242.html[/url]

(IOCCC is one of my favorite sites ever!) Whose participant makefile? I had a look to a couple of them but found nothing unorthodox. The code itself, on the other hand... OMG! Some of those guys are really geniuses.

[QUOTE=LaurV;332352](IOCCC is one of my favorite sites ever!) Whose participant makefile? I had a look to a couple of them but found nothing unorthodox. The code itself, on the other hand... OMG! Some of those guys are really geniuses.[/QUOTE]

From the look of it, they all had a Makefile written by the organizers, slightly modified for each program. I've just looked at a few other 2012 entries and they do all have the same Makefile. You need to look at and below the "utility rules".

[url]http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/scientists-perfect-mouse-re-cloning-to-the-25th-generation[/url]

In the story, they've managed to clone mice "perfectly" to the 25th generation.

Stephen King is probably one of the best grammar rule-breakers there is, imco.

Who's your favorite grammar rule-breaker, and where can I obtain their stuff?

Edit: Oops, I'll start a new thread.

[url]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332649][URL]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

Thanks for that!

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332649][URL]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]“Money” is one of the few hit singles ever to utilize a 7/4 time signature.[/QUOTE]While the article is quite right about the special place for [I]Money[/I] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Great_Dance_Songs"]delectably undanceable[/URL] music (7/4+4/4 meter), they were pretty tame with time signatures compared to, say, [URL="http://hooksanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/oddly-not-odd-meter-jethro-tull-a-new-day-yesterday-1969/"]Jetthro[/URL] Tull. (And not to mention the fab Four's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_is_Love"]7/4+4/4[/URL] quite a few years earlier.)

Anyway, great article! Good tips about spoken bits (and Peter Watts and Jerry...) Hey, they forgot the 41st tip: the full quote from Jerry the electrician is "[I]There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. [/I]This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.[I]" [/I](Only the italicized portion was used, ~15s before the end of last track. There's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums:_Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Making_of_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon"]a DVD[/URL] that accompanied the 2003 30 year release which is great for extra facts.)

[QUOTE=Batalov;332709]While the article is quite right about the special place for [I]Money[/I] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Great_Dance_Songs"]delectably undanceable[/URL] music (7/4+4/4 meter), they were pretty tame with time signatures compared to, say, [URL="http://hooksanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/oddly-not-odd-meter-jethro-tull-a-new-day-yesterday-1969/"]Jetthro[/URL] Tull. (And not to mention the fab Four's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_is_Love"]7/4+4/4[/URL] quite a few years earlier.)

Anyway, great article! Good tips about spoken bits (and Peter Watts and Jerry...) Hey, they forgot the 41st tip: the full quote from Jerry the electrician is "[I]There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. [/I]This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.[I]" [/I](Only the italicized portion was used, ~15s before the end of last track. There's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums:_Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Making_of_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon"]a DVD[/URL] that accompanied the 2003 30 year release which is great for extra facts.)[/QUOTE]

Interesting site, that Hooks, as well as the analysis of "New Day Yesterday." Tull remains a favorite in this household, though Floyd probably has been getting more play of late.

As long as strange signatures are the topic, let's not forget St. Frank of Zappa. I can't come up with any specific examples, but I remember things with 13ths, or maybe 17ths (as in triplets which grew.) Actually, now that I reflect, there is a live number called "The Blue Light." It begins [QUOTE]
Your Ethos
Your Pathos
Your Porthos
Your Aramis
Your Brut Cologne
You're writing home
You are hopeless
Your hopelessness
Is rising around you, rising around you
You like it
It gives you something to do
In the day time[/QUOTE]More here-
[URL]http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/The_Blue_Light[/URL]

It has some pretty weird times in it.

Science!
[YOUTUBE]jrje73EyKag[/YOUTUBE]

[QUOTE]Science![/QUOTE]That would be a real pane to haul around.

:razz:

[QUOTE=cheesehead;333700]
[QUOTE=petrw1;333602][URL]http://en.webfail.com/54c20e3658b[/URL][/QUOTE]
Is that Batman playing Black?

... and missing his bat-ear hood and face mask because he's lost the first two rounds of strip chess?[/QUOTE]

Speaking of two projections on top of the head ...

[URL]http://en.webfail.com/7d629a6ab7a[/URL]

[url]http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;333816][url]http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html[/url][/QUOTE]I am a Christian that has never believed in 'heaven going'.
The reward promised to the faithful is always a bodily life here on earth.
"The meek shall inherit the earth", Jesus quoting King David.
"And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet [U]in my flesh[/U] shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and [U]mine eyes[/U] shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me." Job 19:26-27 (That speaks of a fleshly resurrection.)
"And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to [U]thee[/U] will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." Gen13:14-15 (Sounds like he is being promised land on earth and that he as a person will be in it.)

[url]http://phrontistery.info/favourite.html[/url]

[url]http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/[/url]

Oddly, a Yahoo! search on

define "caboose papoose"

returned exactly 1 result: [URL]http://www.coursehero.com/file/5238390/words/[/URL]

which seems to be about study guides for SUNY computer science courses. :-)

Why does the legal system care about descriptiveness?
 

Apple has been denied a copyright claim on "Ipad Mini" because it's not descriptive enough. I'd like to know why the US legal system thinks that part of their duty is to determine if a name is descriptive enough. Their purpose is to determine whether or not there will be any brand confusion and deal with THAT. There are other duties, but that's the main one.

In my mind, Apple's defense should be the US legal system equivalent of,"Wtf are you talking about? It's not your job to give a damn about descriptiveness. Just do your job, you dumbasses." Plus, the name is Ipad Mini, so I think everyone's conclusion is that it's a smaller Apple tablet. The people that are confused by that name probably aren't customers to begin with.

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21987831[/url]

[QUOTE=jasong;335627]Apple has been denied a copyright claim on "Ipad Mini" because it's not descriptive enough. I'd like to know why the US legal system thinks that part of their duty is to determine if a name is descriptive enough. Their purpose is to determine whether or not there will be any brand confusion and deal with THAT. There are other duties, but that's the main one.

In my mind, Apple's defense should be the US legal system equivalent of,"Wtf are you talking about? It's not your job to give a damn about descriptiveness. Just do your job, you dumbasses."

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21987831[/url][/QUOTE]

The last thing Apple needs is more encouragement.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;335628]The last thing Apple needs is more encouragement.[/QUOTE]
Well, I don't intend to be a cheerleader for them, but I try to be fair-minded about stuff.

[QUOTE=jasong;335632]Well, I don't intend to be a cheerleader for them, but I try to be fair-minded about stuff.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough :razz: But for every case where the government wrongs Apple, there are 10 cases where Apple wronged the people.

[QUOTE=jasong;335632]Well, I don't intend to be a cheerleader for them, but I try to be fair-minded about stuff.[/QUOTE]
Copyright is not the same as trademark. This concerns a trademark.
Read the linked article again, along with the letter from the USPTO explaining the rejection.

It's "iPad Mini". Capitalization does matter in this case.

Dear China: Apple is exploiting Western citizens as much as Chinese citizens, but it seems that you at least can be bothered to do something about it. Love, Me

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21996134[/url]

[url]https://plus.google.com/118305017739304520831/about?gl=CA&hl=en-CA[/url]
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Overall Excellent
Stayed there for a year, great staff, great food.
Helpful? Yes No
15 out of 16 found this review helpful[/QUOTE]
h/t [url]http://leasthelpful.com/[/url] Mar 24, 2013

[URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html"]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html
[/URL]
Hmm, would make a interesting...

[QUOTE=kracker;335968][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html"]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html
[/URL]
Hmm, would make a interesting...[/QUOTE]Does look nice. Although the review doesn't say so, it appears that there are 8 RAM slots which is also rather attractive to some.

[QUOTE=xilman;335979]Does look nice. Although the review doesn't say so, it appears that there are 8 RAM slots which is also rather attractive to some.[/QUOTE]
Yup, 4 way gpu, lots of potential ram=PROFIT!

(-price probably)

[QUOTE=kracker;335968][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html"]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/P9X79-E-WS-Asus-Motherboard-X79,21782.html
[/URL]
Hmm, would make a interesting...[/QUOTE]

I'm envious of the 8 DRAM slots. I already have more PCIe capacity than I can deal with.

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[url]http://agnesgalore.tumblr.com/post/46709012222/why-i-almost-defriended-everyone-who-had-an-hrc-logo-as[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;336068][url]http://twistedsifter.com/2013/03/mustang-wanted-extreme-rooftopping-skywalking-photos/[/url][/QUOTE]

Somewhat related: [URL="http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365"]Free-climbing for a living....[/URL]

[QUOTE=jasong;335627]Apple has been denied a copyright claim on "Ipad Mini" because it's not descriptive enough. I'd like to know why the US legal system thinks that part of their duty is to determine if a name is descriptive enough. Their purpose is to determine whether or not there will be any brand confusion and deal with THAT. There are other duties, but that's the main one.

In my mind, Apple's defense should be the US legal system equivalent of,"Wtf are you talking about? It's not your job to give a damn about descriptiveness. Just do your job, you dumbasses." Plus, the name is Ipad Mini, so I think everyone's conclusion is that it's a smaller Apple tablet. The people that are confused by that name probably aren't customers to begin with.

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21987831[/url][/QUOTE]

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/04/uspto-backtracks-on-ipad-mini-trademark-being-merely-descriptive/"]USPTO reconsiders[/URL]