Yeah, baby! 8-) But, this sucker’s got 390 Calories in six ounces (21g fat; 51g carbs), which is practically a diet compared to a Cold Stone milkshake (3200 Calories) but still not something you want to be imbibing very often. Nonetheless, I’ll be at Starbucks on Jan 8; count on it.
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Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics | Publications | 2004 | Abstract of preprint 2004.3
This paper explains how one can crochet the Lorenz manifold, the two-dimensional stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system
We capitalist pigs like to think that we have the corner on soul crushing Malls, but it looks like Communist China has us beat:
With 230 escalators, more than 1,000 shops, restaurant space the size of two football fields, and a skating rink – the Art Deco mall is a testament in glass and steel [...]
Wow. I didn’t expect to be on the list at all, but still I find myself disappointed to have fallen from position 1,150,012 to 1,331,301 in the space of the last 24 hours! Merry *sniff* Christmas. ;-)
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Chocolate has more holidays than any other candy. Can’t argue with that, heh.
Candy USA!
Need a reason to celebrate your favorite candy item? Check out this list of fun candy holidays.
Fed up with television executives and studios, the star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers set up the website last month as a vehicle for his humour and personal philosophy. Cleese is promising to update the site every day with new sketches, pictures of his home life and biographical information.
From 43 Folders: Hack your way out of writer’s block. Lots of useful tips. While it’s geared towards fiction, many of them would apply to non-fiction as well.
…excerpt from: http://www.backupbrain.com/2004_11_14_archive.html#a004276
I got the following from a family member today:
Starting Jan 1, 2005, all cell phone numbers will be made public to telemarketing firms. So this means as of Jan 1, your cell phone may start ringing off the hook with telemarketers, but unlike your home phone, most of you pay for your incoming calls. These [...]
BBC NEWS | UK | 1914 ‘football truce’ anniversary
This Christmas is the 90th anniversary of the World War I truce when British troops took on the Germans at football.
The soldiers sang Christmas carols before leaving their trenches to play a match in sub-zero temperatures in no-man’s land near Armentieres, France.
Excerpt:
Salon Arts & Entertainment | “Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists, by David Brin
Anyway, I make a good living writing science-fiction novels and movies. So “Star Wars” ought to be a great busman’s holiday, right?
One of the problems with so-called light entertainment today is that somehow, amid all the gaudy special effects, people tend [...]