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True
or false — From ”Calculus for Dummies”: Regarding the infinite, if
you consider the series 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001, etc., and if you go out far
enough, you’ll find a number with [...]

Incoming President Brands Silber "Paranoid Megalomaniac"
If
I didn’t actually work for the bastards I would think this is the funniest
story to come out of higher education in years.  On the eve of his
[...]

"That’s like looking for the Playboy centerfold who also holds a degree
from MIT and loves to cook."
Jackboot libertarian and talk-show host Jay
Severin on the job
[...]

One of the most powerful solar flares in years erupted from giant
sunspot 486 this morning at approximately 1110 UT. The blast measured X17
on the
Richter scale of solar flares . As a [...]

Who
knew there were fish on Mars?  And we should distrust their efforts
to be counted? I’ll have to start keeping a closer watch on the news….
On land the demand is to know, with certainty, how many fish are left
[...]

SAN
FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Prosecutors looking to throw the book at accused
computer hackers have come across a legal defence expected to become
even more widespread in an era of hijacked PCs and laptops [...]

Undergraduates
with time on their hands are the Mother’s of Invention, as the history
of Napster clearly shows. Now a pair of 20ish MIT students have come
up with a workaround for the RIAA’s [...]

SAN
FRANCISCO–They can turn brown eyes blue or human eyes to monster eyes.
Decorative, or costume, contact lenses can be a fun way to change one’s
looks, especially for Halloween. However, the American Academy [...]

from Despair.com

Here is a story which features ESL, another American Blogger in Korea (where do they all come from?), international relations, irrational hatred and baseball. How could I resist?
“Mr. Lee:

Wow! It must have looked like a commuter’s
version of Usama’s Martyr’s Paradise. What an idea for a FlashMob – now
that one I would go to.
Hundreds of women have stripped naked at New York’s [...]

I
knew there must be some logical explanation as to why my Summer students
gave me such low evaluations. It couldn’t have been just because
I taught the class largely by remote control fron an [...]