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Wed 13 Sep 2006

Slide Rule Porn

Posted by shaun under calculators , geek , nerd , rpn , science , sliderule
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Mark C. Chu-Carroll is competing in a Geekoff with some other highly qualified people over at http://scienceblogs.com. Romana was kind enough to send me a nice little article about slide rules explained by a true master of math education on his Good Math, Bad Math blog. He even has the same K&E rule as I recently bought on Ebay in it’s beautiful orange leather case. The blog entry is worth reading to get your head around some slide rule basics and explains how slide rules make math tactile. That is you get more of a feeling for what is going on.
Chu-Carroll even uses stack based calculators, so you know he is a smart man :)

Just in case he reads this though … What no Intercal?
Here are some photos of my new (well made in 1956) toy

K&E 4081-3

K&E 4081-3 Pic2

K&E 4081-3 Pic3

K&E 4081-3 Pic4

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Tue 22 Aug 2006

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day- FFSM

Posted by shaun under astronomy , fsm , pastafarian , science
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APOD: 2006 August 22 - A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares

Today’s NASA APOD photo is either of a smoke angel or more proof of the flying spaghetti monster. Take a look and make up your own mind.

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Tue 22 Aug 2006

Dark Matter Exists | Cosmic Variance

Posted by shaun under cool , cosmology , science
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Dark Matter Exists | Cosmic Variance

This is a really impressive article about how the existance of dark matter has now been proven. Infact if your brain parses the pictures and explanations better than mine you will even see it for yourself. Excuse me while I break in into Monty Python’s Galaxy song for a while …

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