No! Come on! He doesn’t even have his eyes open and his skin looks like it’s made of bubble gum and ham.
— Rob Ford Has a Terrible Photographer | VICE Canada *knotesy
Comrade Airship. Poster by the Stenberg brothers.
It’s as if in the middle of The Dark Knight, Batman suddenly turns out to be able to melt people with his brain.
— The Central Problem With Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who *knotesy
The woman was Alice Kober, an overworked, underpaid classics professor at Brooklyn College. In the mid-20th century, though hardly anyone knew it, Dr. Kober, working quietly and methodically at her dining table in Flatbush, helped solve one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the modern age.
— Alice E. Kober, 43 - Lost to History No More - NYTimes.com *knotesy
My Internet is not only the Mark Zuckerberg Internet, or the Kleiner Perkins Internet; it’s the Internet of Michael Hart and Brewster Kahle, Aaron Swartz and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science and the new Digital Public Library of America, JSTOR and countless public archives and library and museum sites all over the world. It’s the Internet of preservationists and digital humanitarians, of scholars and intellectuals of all kinds.
— Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective | The Awl *knotesy
Kali & the Kaleidoscope: The Billiards Of Chaos →
….from Silent Running (1972), dystopian sci-fi film set on a bioreserve forest aboard a spaceship.
This circular pool table has an off centred hole which makes the the game way more difficult. Incidentally, the mathematical version of this problem is known to be very complicated. In the…
And I don’t believe that the NSA could save every domestic phone call, not at this time. Possibly after the Utah data center is finished, but not now. They could be saving the all the metadata now, but I’m skeptical about that too.
— Schneier on Security: Is the U.S. Government Recording and Saving All Domestic Telephone Calls? *knotesy
Because of its simplicity, the ABC Conjecture is well-known by all mathematicians. CUNY professor Lucien Szpiro says that “every professional has tried at least one night” to theorize about a proof. Yet few people have seriously attempted to crack it.
— The Paradox of the Proof | Project Wordsworth *knotesy
Wetting surfaces to wipe it off only made the dust stick more firmly. It’s like the silicate minerals all over Mars’ surface — if they mix with water in human lungs, they will become more damaging, combining to create dangerous chemicals.
— We need to tackle Mars dust before launching manned mission (Wired UK) *knotesy
Disunion - The guillotine simulator for Oculus Rift. (by André Berlemont)
