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QOTD: Sweaty code

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From Diesel Sweeties: “I used to have an amazing rack, but I gave it to my administrator.” :D

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April 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

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Geek death match

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Sort of. Two philosophy professors (from MIT and Princeton) dueled to write the largest possible finite number on a chalkboard. Guess who won?

The number: “The smallest number bigger than any number that can be named by an expression in the language of first order set-theory with less than a googol (10^100) symbols.”

Written by Ian Dexter

March 15th, 2007 at 9:30 am

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Behold what God hath wrought

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LISP, er, Perl, er...

Way back in high school and early college, all I know of Lisp was that it stood for “Lots of irritating stupid parentheses”.

Written by Ian Dexter

February 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

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Bad-ass Millennium Falcon

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By Lego. Take a look, drool and weep:

Lego Millennium Falcon

Oh, and it will only set you back US$500.

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February 13th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

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MacGyver multitool

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MacGyver multitool

Via Gizmodo.

Written by Ian Dexter

January 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am

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