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A Norwegian professor compiles a list of eleven reasons why high schoolers should study math. So get cracking on your calculus already!

Can’t stay long — Fred and I have company coming over tonight. I will mention, however, that I have spent much of the last two weeks either working or writing an April Fool’s RFC (which I just submitted). More on the RFC when I hear back. Oh, and I’ve been helping answer Wikipedia’s e-mail, and [...]

A few miscellaneous things while I’m pressed for time. It’s sort of old news, but I still think this WiFi access point turned music player is genius. As is this fully functional air conditioner made of LEGO. And this song, which came up while I had iTunes going on “shuffle”. I cannot get it out [...]

No time to elaborate too much — watching the Wikipedia odometer too closely — but think the rest of y’all all should enjoy this. Please note: Transamerica plot spoilers abound at this next link. charliegrrrl: TransAmerica synopsis… In the discussion section we also learn about the common Hollywood plot device of the “Magical Negro” and [...]

So it looks like the English Wikipedia will have its millionth article posted today. In the meantime, I just can’t stop going back to Special:Statistics and hitting “refresh”. 999,131 at this post… more by the time any of you read it. <boggle> UPDATE: the millionth article was created at 23:09 UTC 1 March 2006. Looks [...]