Tids & Bits¶
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Take a look at this screenshot and guess whether I have connected my iPod or not and whether it is mounted or not. The kind of fun that a bit of symlinking and renaming will bring you in conjunction with poorly written software. Poorly written probably referring to both difficulties with non-ASCII characters and the vain hope to reliably identify something in the filesystem by its path.
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Enjoy Unintelligent design. I like this way of rendering weirdos' 'arguments' ad absurdum. In a way reminds me of the text on the 'catholics problem' which basically took up all the right wing xenophobic 'arguments' and replaced 'immigrant' by 'catholic'.
Catholics have their own country. So why don't they go and live there?
- Mike Shaver mentions marinating things in miso using this recipe. Chiho recommended that to me as well a while ago. Perhaps I should take this as cue to finally go ahead.
- When searching for things in my area of maths on the web, you frequently come across John Baez' site. He writes an instructive weekly column on mathematical physics that can be quite helpful at times. While it wasn't too much yesterday, as his text on torsors doesn't go far enough for my taste, I stumbled across a curious page on distances.
- That in turn reminded me of the planet walk they opened in Göttingen last year: Basically they put signs for every planet across town in a way that all the sizes and distances are to scale. In my opinion that's a good way to grasp those sizes. It also makes pretty clear that the wildly hyped Mars is just a little and close neighbour.
- Looks like I am not the only one who's sceptical about the ramifications of GarageBand. (via 2lmc)
