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Therefore, stop whatever you are doing right now and watch this beautifully abstract zombie invasion video. It will do your mind good.
(found via Federico Mena-Quintero)

So I run apt-get dist-upgrade, download a new version of apache, and suddenly going to http://www.tetromino.net/blog/ gives a 404 error. On closer examination, it seems that the new version of apache2.conf that came with the update does not have a DirectoryIndex directive, and as a result apache isn’t autoloading my blog’s index.php. Gotta tell you, […]

This weekend I’ve been looking at cars, trying to find something to replace my stolen Acura without breaking the bank. Frankly, it’s not encouraging. The cars that I like are a bit too expensive; and the cars that I find affordable are, well… hard to like. Consider a 1998 Saturn for $1900 which I looked […]

The BBC just did a survey on global attitudes to the use of torture.

country
No torture:
Some torture is OK:

USA
58%
36%

Britain
72%
24%

Russia
43%
37%

I thought that we had all concluded that torture was a fundamental evil back in the 18th century, right around the time we invented human rights and modern science. Yet here in the 2006, in the […]

One of my professors is from Greece. Unfortunately, it seems that over the thousands of years since the Greek alphabet was invented, the version of the Greek glyphs used by Greek-speaking Greeks has diverged quite a bit from the version inherited by LaTeX-speaking mathematicians. Thus, when a Greek-speaker writes on the board about a mathematical […]

Tonight, I drove over to my friend’s house for a party, and parked on a nice (well, as nice as it gets around the University) residential street right under a streetlight. Six hours later, I come out find that the car is gone. So I call the local non-emergency police line. They inform me that […]