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What’s Special About This Number?
lovely website [www.stetson.edu] 0 is the additive identity. 1 is the multiplicative identity. 2 is the only even prime. 3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in. 4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps. 5 is the number of Platonic solids. 6 is the smallest perfect number.…
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essential calvin
[www.angelfire.com]
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i have used this so often in the past month, i have to plug it.
[en.wikipedia.org] — Wikipedia. Somewhere between Britannica, Encarta and the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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personally i consider this a gross idea, but i am sure…
…that some will like it. http://jellybath.com/index.htm
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pathetic motorways
[www.niamh-sian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk]
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seen at ian’s birthday party
[17:59] <alecm> i saw something bizzare at a birthday party this weekend [17:59] <alecm> “sigmund freud pose-able action figure” [18:00] <alecm> “contains small parts.”
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ever wonder how big a lunar crater is?
http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/images/hatwood-moon01.jpg
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weekend
okay – a brief recap of past few days: thursday 0500h heathrow, fly edinburgh, meetings with crazy norwegians, dutch, and assorted other europeans, talk security. nice hotel linlithgow. posh dinner with rest of team, dinner pictures at: [www.crypticide.org] discover that norwegians especially are total party monsters, including crowberry liqueur and akvavit starters. very generous folk,…
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busy…
busy weekend. commentary later. pictures: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/fun-13dec03/ but be warned that there are pictures of a food market, containing pictures of non-vegetarian food.
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vital latin phrases for librarians
[warriorlibrarian.com] Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
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10 megabytes, 15 minutes and 2 seconds of geek lullaby…
Radio 4 listeners will befamiliar with the content, but I felt some of my non-UK friends might like to take in the soporific tones and structure of the 6-part shutdown… http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/tmp/radio4.mp3
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bizzare…
There’s a programme on the BBC I am watching, about Operation Shiloh – http://www.opshiloh.com/ – involving American Christians on tour in Israel with former/current Israeli Defense Force commandos, learning hand-to-hand combat, giving them big semi/automatic guns, sleeping on hard ground, keeping all-night watch and barely stopping them shooting each other. Very Boy Scout. Even Girl…