Flatland: A book I still think about 30 years on:
#^A Guide to Flatland: What It’s Like to Live in Two Dimensions | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2014/11/geometry-of-flatland

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Mathematician Ian Stewart wants us to see what he sees. Which is kind of a problem, because he’s accustomed to envisioning some pretty impossible shapes: snowflakes in fractional dimensions, hypercubes in 4-D, 11-dimensional superstrings. So when the University of Warwick professor and author writes about these freaky geometries, he relies on an analogy—a way for us blockheads to understand realities above, below, and in between our three dimensions. His guide is a little mathematical fantasy he read over half a century ago: the cult classic Flatland.

Flatland is available free in the Roth Library as an epub.

This is the generic one http://quitter.no/doc/faq, do they use something different?

Felicitations!

@zoowar Sadly, well.red was taken.

Breaking News:
so .red is now a thing.

Stay tuned for parlementum.red

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I’ll be going silent for a few days, with the exception of quotes from whatever I’m reading.

The point is the countries with 0. A further statistic: Ofcr Wilson fired his gun 12 times at Michael Brown. That’s more times than the entire police force of the UK discharged their weapons in 2012.

Cool! “Try a reverse DNS on @duckduckgo. One of our newest instant answers! “ iplookup 123.45.678.901, etc.

SInce I’m a word guy, I want to clarify something re: ‪#‎Ferguson‬.
“The jury has spoken.” No, actually, it has not. This is confusing a trial jury finding (to which jeopardy attaches) and the refusal of a grand jury to indict (to which no jeopardy attaches). The prosecutor could go to another grand jury and seek an indictment again. He could do so 3 times, or a dozen.

This is the stat I can’t get over: http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/707

Tea and Germans. #amreading Germania by Simon Winder http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429024675

Tamburlaine’s Seductive Terror by Geoffrey O’Brien | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books http://ur1.ca/ivva8

Tamburlaine was in the first place a history lesson, whatever its reliability: a synopsis for London theatergoers of earthshaking events not all that distant in place or time. The historic Tamerlane died at the beginning of the fifteenth century, after carving out an immense empire stretching from Turkey to India and embracing large swaths of Mesopotamia, Persia, and central Asia. An inevitable eerie accompaniment to a modern production is the sense of a war begun long ago that continues to unfold. The geographic names with which the text is dotted—Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Gaza, Arabia, the Red Sea—provide their own form of commentary without any directorial intervention. The history of the present moment becomes a co-author, adding its own expressive footnotes. As death closes in, Tamburlaine studies a map of the world, tracing his victories and… http://ur1.ca/ivva9

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction”— Mark Twain

#cats

@galoisghost I’ve had that happen before. Usually, I just wipe and start again…

They need a private GnuSocial instance ;)

Twitter CFO tweeted when he meant to DM. #oops http://vox.a2c3.co/attachment/692

“Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, respond readily—like a good
many dull people—to the right contacts.” —The Joy of Cooking

Tom, Dick, & Harry by any other name… http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizio,_Caio_e_Sempronio?#Espressioni_simili_in_altre_lingue

I’m forgoing the work and the hoopla. Going to read and drink wine all day.

@lohang Great image! I can’t find an RSS feed for your ownstagram though :/