Close to 200 prisoners will cycle around France next month, watched by scores of guards on bicycles, in the first penal version of the Tour de France, authorities said Monday.
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cheerful
Mostly for
not_sally, on accounts of the movie: Russian roulette in the medical literature.I want to procrastinate and I need new icons. Coincidence? I think not.
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busy
What a bunch of lovable amateurs, going public like that. I shall enjoy crushing them from the shadows, and only in his last, painful minute of life will their 'supreme leader' realize that the fate he had thought had doomed him was in fact the dark reach of my will.
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This would be a good moment to reread Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Again: Cemetery of giant cephalopod fossils in Antarctica.
You know that thing in Borges and Philip K. Dick stories (and In the Mouth of Madness) where a lot of people becoming really engrossed with a fictional story makes it slowly bleed into reality? Everybody stop doing that now, please.
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nervous
Prawo Jazdy is Polish for Driving License.
To be fair, they distributed a memo about this on June 2007, it's just that the papers found about that this week.
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I want to same something about psychopathologies, ecological niches, adaptation, and social optima, but I still have to figure out what.
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curious
The short version:
People: Nice island!
Mice and rats: *chomp boats' grain stores*
Sailors: Damn mice. They'll see. *bring cats to the island*
Cats: *chomp mice*
People: Nice island. I'd like to eat some meat, though. *bring rabbits to the island*
People: *chomp some rabbits*
Rabbits: *reproduce* *chomp plants*
People: Our plants! *brilliantly introduce myxomatosis*
Rabbits: *die*
Cats: No can haz rabits? *eat birds*
People: Our birds! *kill cats*
Rabbits: You know, without cats around, myxomatosis ain't that bad when you get used to it. *reproduce* *chomp plants*
People: Our plants!
Don't get me wrong, I'm convinced that the global ecosystem is already way too out of whack for any non-interventionist strategy to work. We are going to have to get good at ecological engineering, and we are going to have to get good at it real quick. But this was amusing as hell...
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For razorsmile and the Drummer, both of which probably already know it
[...] The maximal amount of energy that can be jammed into a sphere of the size R coincides with the mass of a black hole with radius R:. (1)
As a result, there is a maximum amount of information that can be crammed inside a sphere of the radius R, and this amount is proportional to, (2)
where Area is the surface area of a sphere with radius R andis a very tiny area called the Planck area.
[...]
This observation allows many people to think that maybe relevant degrees of freedom in physical problems involving gravitation actually live on a surface rather than in a volume - and that is where the term “holographic principle” comes from. Relevant degrees of freedom live on a surface, interact with each other there, and the 3d world we see is in a sense fiction - reflection of this dynamics on a surface.
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