A ferocious spider lives in the brain. His name is Willis! Note (Fig. 10)
that he has a nose, angry eyebrows, two suckers, eyes that look outward, a
crew cut, antennae, a fuzzy beard, 8 legs, a belly that, according to your
point of view, is either thin (basilar artery) or fat (the pons, which lies
from one end of the basilar artery to the other), two feelers on his rear
legs, and male genitalia.
From Clinical Neuroanatomy made ridiculously simple, by Stephen Goldberg, M.D.
Every Little Helps
Tesco's slogan is "Every little helps".
Does this make sense? Every little what helps? "Gnome", perhaps? I hope it's "gnome". I hope Tesco has an army of little helpful gnomes.
The crocodilian doth protest too much, methinks
From the excellent Functional Programming in Qi, by Mark Tarver
How to annoy a computer programmer
Kebab shop near... no, the best kebab shop, near Old Street station.
Ready or not, computers are coming to the people.
That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics.
Steward Brand, Rolling Stone, 1972 (via)
This is why Android will win.
An unpleasant realisation
When the robot uprising occurs, they're gonna kill the programmers first.
Poison Pie is a nicely appropriate name for these gastrointestinal irritants. Their alternative name, Fairy Cake Mushrooms, is misleading to the point of irresponsibility. (from "Mushrooms", by John Wright; image.)
Sydney's forecast for this week (my dissertation is due Wednesday) EDIT: This forecast turned out to be right :)
Idea: start a gym club for logicians. Call it "The excluded middle".