Thursday, August 31, 2006

Baseball hijinx

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There are a couple amusing things that happened in the world of baseball today. 1) Jim Leyland, the manager of the Tigers, was having a heat...
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More Google magic

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My site got hit from the search 'photo big buts holding hands'. Let's assume for a second that the author of that search spelled...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Grand Theft Amish

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Just how awesome is this t-shirt! Let me count the ways...

More media sluttage

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My work on Congress was recently highlighted by the American Mathematical Society as one of its Mathematical Moments . (Also, here is the s...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

I need to figure out how to write an entry about a movie I saw recently.

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Last night, I saw a movie at Lemming's place. Actually, I saw two of them, but this entry is about the first one and I'm not entir...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

Today's amusing google search

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Somebody in Australia got to one of my web pages (as the second entry, according to Google!) via googling 'i am pretending to do work...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Article on Perelman in The New Yorker

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Catalin Turc pointed me to this article in The New Yorker on Grigory Perelman, who this week declined a Fields Medal for proving the Poinc...
Friday, August 25, 2006

I am impressive: Exhibit A

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In an e-mail I sent today to a collaborator, I inadvertently made the following comment: "After that, it may make sense for me to go be...

Congrats to Mee Choi!

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My friend Mee, who some of you met (she is now living with her husband in Pittsburgh), just gave birth to a child. Well, it's her life. ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Don't tempt me.

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I have a vague recollection of mocking this abstract when the first version of the paper was posted to the arXiv, but I'm going to make ...

Fresh from the arXiv

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I just saw the following paper: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \Paper: physics/0608228 Date:...

Pluto is no longer a planet

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As reported here , Pluto has been demoted and is no longer considered a planet. There is no truth to the rumor that its name will soon be ch...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

2006 Fields Medals

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The 2006 Fields Medals . were announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The Fields Medal, awarded to some (small) num...
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Monday, August 21, 2006

When stick figures attack

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Courtesy Justin, this video shows what happens when one's own stick figure, drawn to play the role of an innocent victim, decides that ...

Zombies Protest the War in San Francisco

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Well, maybe not, but as Gazebo blogs , they did invade the San Francisco Apple Store . If you want to be apprised of further zombie activit...
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A network of network scientists

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This post is for those of you who like meta. (It's only a matter of time before its use as a noun becomes officially correct...) Here i...

Worldmapper (and Cartograms in general)

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One of my collaborators, Mark Newman , has done some work on cartograms over the last couple years. (This is a way to take a map, such as o...
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us

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Courtesy Kris K. (one of my students), here is a link to the video All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us . I guess these memes were meant to be m...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

A surprising factoid...

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As I write this, the Colorado Rockies lead the National League in ERA (4.08). They have also allowed the fewest runs in the NL. Losses in ...
Friday, August 18, 2006

2007 U. S. News college rankings

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The 2007 edition of the U. S. News and World Report college rankings are out. Not that it means anything, but I look at it out of curiosit...