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Designer "Sagredo" built circular thermometers
with 360 divisions, an idea he borrowed from the
ancient Babylonians ... it's why today we measure
temperature in degrees.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AlignmentMap.html
http://prezi.com/aww2hjfyil0u/math-is-not-linear/
http://maxwelldemon.com/2011/09/03/the-academy-axiom-1/
http://www.evernote.com/
http://www.elasticsearch.org/
https://launchpad.net/rem2ics/
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt
http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933514
http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/html/index.html
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/hosting.html
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dambusters-building-the-bouncing-bomb/4od#3186574
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0016568
http://republicofmath.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/why-exactly-is-the-square-root-of-2-not-a-rational-number/
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/13320/cool-problems-to-impress-students-with-group-theory
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218447
http://jacquesmattheij.com/idea+dump,+December+edition
http://jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+dump+January+2011+edition
http://jacquesmattheij.com/Idea+dump+February+2011+edition
http://openendedgroup.com/field
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality/UPDATE
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_drori_on_what_we_think_we_know.html

http://www.hotwire.com
tiddlywiki HEn1Cvcjw3
http://www.miktex.org/about
http://qchu.wordpress.com/
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
http://www.mathblogging.org/bychoice
http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2010/02/on_karma.html
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1010/1010.5023v1.pdf
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf
http://notational.net/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1933198
http://news.usethesource.com/newest
http://arclanguage.org/forum
http://wufoo.com/
http://jsomers.net/blog/deskotron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
Study of a proof: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1154.PDF
http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/blog/whypython.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/KoutisApproaching-2010.pdf
Graph Theory reading: Trudeau, "Dots and Lines"
HN recommendation: read "Pop Co" by Scarlet Thomas
http://mathtourist.blogspot.com/2010/10/martin-gardners-mobius-surprise.html
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/the-wonderful-martin-gardner/
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=10173

http://sfh10.wordpress.com/
http://nrich.maths.org/7060
http://www.startupbook.net/
http://www.deathgetsawebsite.com
http://www.evernote.com/
http://www.codeanthem.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ww0gwEszo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
http://us.akinator.com/
http://twitpic.com/2cam8p
http://twitpic.com/2cam0p
http://www.segerman.org/dodecahedron4g4g9.pdf
http://www.esmerel.com/circle/wordlore/hello.html
http://www.zenmachine.co.uk/events10.html
http://www.thebrain.com/
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
http://betterexplained.com/
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/esta.html
http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/superman.pdf
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2339.html
http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/gt.html (Group Theory)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911961 - e^(i.pi)
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/stream/nasa.php
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/07/10/a_nerd_in_a_cave.html
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-language/
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/index.html
http://www.jugglewiki.org/wiki/Basic_Siteswap_Notation
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/textogif/textogif.html
http://letuscode.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-management.html
Leonhard Euler's Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite (1748)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804101
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797778
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/07/simple-code-for-entering-latitude-and.html
http://links.betterexplained.com/ / http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=81
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html?cal=2012#skycal
http://www.clovercottage.com.au
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
http://inspire.blufra.me/big-data-visualization-review-of-the-20-best-tools/
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2009/4/the-best-bits
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/bushfires/
http://htmldog.com/
http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/01/25/the-myth-of-the-big-break/
http://pingswept.org/2009/01/24/least-squares-polynomial-fitting-in-python/
http://www.burlaca.com/2009/01/graph-visualization-apache-logs/
http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/io-monad-for-people-who-simply-dont.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7832000/7832355.stm
http://www.dabbleboard.com/
http://www.shapeways.com/
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12847128
http://www.jugglingdb.com/news/thread.php?id=211074&group=1
http://fora.tv/2008/10/09/John_Barrow_Not_Just_About_the_Numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_map_algorithm
http://www.h3rald.com/articles/10-programming-languages
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~numb3rs/samuelson/last2/num112.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
http://www.bearcave.com/links.htm
http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5141140002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7687000/7687750.stm
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/leino/puzzles.html
http://bytes.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3428191#post3428191
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7729010.stm
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/11/how-to-make-mon.html
http://advanced34.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/color-web-site-choose/
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~theussl/DA/node34.html
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
http://www.knowhi.org
http://tipjoy.com/
http://wepay.com/
http://fexl.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow
http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/
http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/tools/visual_git_tutorial_1/
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html
http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
http://www.malcolmpryce.com/
http://www.basho.com/Riak.html

Scissors cuts paper,
Paper covers rock,
Rock crushes lizard,
Lizard poisons Spock,
Spock smashes scissors,
Scissors decapitates lizard,
Lizard eats paper,
Paper disproves Spock,
Spock vaporises rock,
And, as it always has,
Rock crushes scissors.

Woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still,
When suddenly a tiny bird,
Perched on my window sill,

It sang a song so lovely,
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles,
Began to slip away,

It sang of far off places,
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very song,
Brought out the morning sun,

I pulled back the covers,
And crept slowly out of bed,
And gently shut the window,
And crushed its little head,

Because I'm not a morning person.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the
wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today
because they pissed me off.

It appears that oral examinations in GCSE modern languages are going to be dropped. Apparently they're too stressful. It feels more and more like the attitude in schools is:

Thanks for turning up, here's your A.
- Now bugger off, we're busy.

All really sensible men agree that the prudent course is to be neither bigoted in our attachment to the old nor rash and unpractical in keeping an open mind for the new, but to make the best of both dispensations.

The Emperor in Androcles and the Lion, by G.B.Shaw.

I'm not going to watch the Clone Wars TV series until I've seen the Clone Wars movie. I prefer to let George Lucas disappoint me in the order he intended.