If only I'd known graph coloring was so cool!

"The steps are: 1. Permute the array randomly using a quantum process, 2. If the array is not sorted, destroy the universe (checking that the list is sorted requires O(n) time). Implementation of step 2 is left as an exercise for the reader."

google maps bug: type in Florida, Michigan, Maryland or Hawaii, and you get points outside of the state. Gmaps looks for the centroid, but it's outside of those convex shapes

Farthest point in lower 48 from an interstate. (appx 225 miles) (Lake Superior)

Hungarians using quantum physics to serve true random numbers! rad. thx 18b.

Smoot became president of the ISO! hilarious

averaged baking process. tasty & hilarious.

Google search for sites with OS X's placeholder page.

so fucking true [does anyone know a way i can automatically bookmark every new cat & girl cartoon?]

"Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?"

About 30,000 photos tagged with the empty set.

In 2D; the polygon of points closer to x than any other point. "John Snow used a Voronoi diagram in [uberfamous] 1854 [map] to illustrate how ... the Soho cholera epidemic [clusted around] the infected Broad Street pump"

go here for an easy hand-out

City parks historical signs on the web! 100% Playground and Yak Playground are highlights

Technically a wild sphere. The outer complement is not simply connected (!) (via Cabinet 20).

"The Biblically possible shapes of the Earth"

"Otlet imagined users accessing the database from great distances via an 'electric telescope' connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image then projected on a flat screen."

via Tom Moody on Best of the Internet

toggle between Map and Satellite views to see the part of DE that google refuses to recognize!