Monthly Archives: May 2009

Entering in the numbers every 108 minutes really makes you appreciate Desmond’s mental state when the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 discovered him inside the hatch. (via ‘Doomsday Terminal’ – How Long Can You Survive? | Touch Arcade) – The terminal featured in the Swan Dharma station, in LOST, as an iPhone app.

What this perl poem generator first gave me:


the hoar

hast at bunk
coar on tost
mall on mams
dibs no post


perl -le ‘sub b{@_=unpack"(A2)*“,pop;$_[rand@_]}
sub w{” “.b("cococacamamadebapabohamolaburatamihopodito”).
b(“estsnslldsckregspsstedbsnelengkemsattewsntarshnknd”)}
{$_=“nnthe”.w.“n”;$_=w.“ ”.b(“attoonnoof”).w if$l;
s/[au][ae]/a/;print;$l=0if$l++>rand 9;sleep 1;redo}’

MonaTweeta II (via Quasimondo) – “Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter.”

[Researchers at the University of Manchester] combined a laser scan of Acrocanthosaurus with known and inferred muscle positions to provide input parameters for a computer program which made the dinosaur walk in the most efficient manner using a genetic algorithm. (via LiveScience.com)

In a recent study, Bartolo Luque and Lucas Lacasa of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain have discovered a new pattern in primes that has surprisingly gone unnoticed until now. They found that the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of Benford’s law.