"Hold on cause the world will turn whether you're ready or not"

[larryhammer]

We interrupt this journal with an important announcement: the high temperature will be 80F again today and there's a giant yellow crane outside my office window. But first a word from our sponsors:

• PowerPoint Karaoke. (via)
  
  
• Supposedly, this is a Klein bottle house, but I'm not seeing enough of the geometry to convince me it's really non-orientable. And speaking of deep math, there's the mystery of why 10¹²² keeps popping up all over. Not as much as π does, but just as interesting. (both via)
  
  
• Minus et Cortex sing the Fromage song in French, of course. (via)
  
  
• Wired tries to anatomize what happens when things are free, or close enough to it. (via)
  
  
• Beware of National Grammar Day, this Tuesday the 4th. And speaking of late-breaking language news, "a crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle." Thank you, The Onion. (via)

In short, it is Spring. We now return you to our regularly scheduled posts.

---L.