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Last link for the morning, I swear:

Tuesday, July 30th, 2002

Last link for the morning, I swear: another Times article, this time based on the thesis that a Bush-instigated attack on Iraq won’t just distract from the country’s economic problems, it will actually exacerbate them. “Eleven years ago, the Persian Gulf war … cost the United States and its allies $60 billion and helped set off an economic recession caused in part by a spike in oil prices. For that war, the allies picked up almost 80 percent of the bill. Today, however, as the Bush administration works on plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the United States is confronting the likelihood that this time around it would have to pick up the tab largely by itself …”

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This NY Times article describes the discovery of these mathematicians that elliptic-curve math could be used to generate a rigorous mathematical model for what M.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2002

This NY Times article describes the discovery of these mathematicians that elliptic-curve math could be used to generate a rigorous mathematical model for what M. C. Escher intuitively designed in his self-repeating “Print Gallery” drawing. Using a mathematical reconstruction of the original work, the mathematicians were able to complete the drawing where Escher left the original blank (either for artistic or computational reasons).

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It’s too bad I don’t have my camera.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2002

It’s too bad I don’t have my camera. On the office junk pile (Motto: “Have some junk? Leave some junk. Need some junk? Take some junk.”) there can be found:

  1. One bag with a couple of hundred stylus tips;
  2. One bag with a similar number of stylus ends (complete with pointy reset poker);
  3. A stack of trays, each tray containing 8 or so grooves, each groove containing 10 so stylus barrels, laid end-to-end.

They seem to be raw stylus parts for the Palm V. I guess some oldtimer’s cleaning out his/her cubicle in preparation for the move.

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Hmm.

Monday, July 29th, 2002

Hmm. A highly-entertaining collection of anecdotes from a girl taking a $6.50/hr job in a bad economy, True Porn Clerk Stories is not exactly safe for work. (You’d think this would have been apparent to me by the title alone). [from mike via wendy]

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In case you missed it:

Monday, July 29th, 2002

In case you missed it: Erin has posted her synopsis of last night’s episode of Sex and the City.

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Playing To Win:

Monday, July 29th, 2002

Playing To Win: if your goal is to play Street Fighter “fairly”, you’ll lose every time.

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An unidentified flying object was observed Friday night in Washington, D.C, pursued by two Air Force F-16 fighters.

Monday, July 29th, 2002

An unidentified flying object was observed Friday night in Washington, D.C, pursued by two Air Force F-16 fighters.

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