Miscellaneous Stuff

You might be interested in:

• aesop.html, Aesop Inside Out: a childhood misreading of one of Aesop's fables;
• Dongarra and Sullivan's list of the top 10 algorithms;
• Givoli's list of the top 10 algorithms;
• astronomy.html, Man's search for lifeless, waterless astronomy article;
• brain.html, a visualization of brain scan data;
• butterfly.html, the Butterfly Tempest Weather Bulletin;
• chain.html, an essay on chain letters;
• the Darkbulb - "Let There Be Dark", an intriguing new consumer electronics product;
• Can the Prosperity of Britain Continue?;
• the Four O'Clock plant;
• the Giant Brains of 1949;
• Indispensable Inventions;
• the Jim Rose Circus Side Show;
• what people say about your job;
• ladyzhenskaya.png a picture of Olga Ladyzhenskaya with Junior, the alligator.
• The Curious Case of the New York Times;
• patents granted in 2006;
• polly_nomial.html The Perils of Polly Nomial, a mathematical spoof by Richard Gibbs;
• Presidential Timber, a new and sensible system for measuring age and categorizing the generations;
• quotes.html, a small collection of quotes;
• rogue_science.html, peculiar explanations of physical phenomena from the back of the classroom;
• rumpelstiltskin.pdf, a verse retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin;
• The Bride of Dr Schlockenstein;
• The Demented Delights of Dr Schlockenstein;
• the SCIgen Automatic CS Paper Generator;
• sherlock.html, a review of SHERLOCK, one of a family of puzzle games by Everett Kaser;

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