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A ferocious spider lives in the brain. His name is Willis

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:28:46 +1000

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

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:07:45 +1000

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

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:53:43 +1000

From the excellent Functional Programming in Qi, by Mark Tarver

How to annoy a computer programmer

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:47:05 +1000

Kebab shop near... no, the best kebab shop, near Old Street station.

Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. Th

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:21:04 +1000

Ready or not, computers are coming to the people.

That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics.

Steward Brand, Rolling Stone, 1972 (via)

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Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:09:12 +1000

This is why Android will win.

An unpleasant realisation

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:43:22 +1000

When the robot uprising occurs, they're gonna kill the programmers first.

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Sun, 02 May 2010 13:40:49 +1000

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.)

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Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:01:42 +1000

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

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:31:25 +1000

Idea: start a gym club for logicians. Call it "The excluded middle".