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Chickens, turkeys and raptors, oh my! | Fublag
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Chickens, turkeys and raptors, oh my! November 29, 2009 at 2:15 pm. Take a look at this graph: (via Google: Insights for Search, slightly modified). Well, the chicken (red) has the best overall search volume, but Thanksgiving pushes turkeys (blue) right up to the top. This makes sense. Thanksgiving is more closely associated with turkey than with gratitude. But what of that yellow line? Raptors deserve more attention. I tell ya, birds these days got no respect for their heritage. Entry filed under: xkcd.
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Google Calculator via Python | Fublag
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Google Calculator via Python. April 7, 2009 at 7:47 pm. Wow, a month? Sorry, guys.). Randall Munroe of xkcd. Fantastic comic by the way) requested a command-line interface to Google Calculator (which is a fantastic tool if you don’t use it), and I delivered. Radius of Earth * 2 * pi) / the speed of light = 0.133675091 seconds. Of course, nobody wants to fire up a big, slow web browser just to do some calculations. The solution, thanks to my modest Python skillz:. C: Python26 googcalc googcalc.py. In prac...
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Bizarre Fact About Factors | Fublag
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Bizarre Fact About Factors. March 6, 2010 at 2:50 pm. Integers B and x greater than 1, where B is not a multiple of any factors of x: There exists a positive integer n such that (B n)-1 is divisible by x. In other words: 999….9999 is a multiple of any given number, except for evens and multiples of 5 (base 10). You just need the right number of nines. In binary, 1111…111 has the same property. I won’t write out a formal proof, but here’s a simple explanation:. Therefore, it’s a fraction over B n-1. You a...
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April | 2009 | Fublag
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Archive for April, 2009. Fublag has a Twitter. There are several reasons for this:. 1 I use Facebook in a very Twitteresque way, and often about impersonal things I could say anonymously. 2 I have random ideas that don’t make it onto the site, and I’d hate to deprive my dozens of readers of the thoughts that occur to me at 1 in the morning. 3 Much like CNN, I figured I might as well see what the buzz is about. April 22, 2009 at 8:07 am. Further reading: “Escape Artist”. By our good friend xkcd. Http:/ ww...
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‘Tis the season (for Google Live Updates) | Fublag
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8216;Tis the season (for Google Live Updates). December 14, 2009 at 4:48 pm. 8216;Tis also the season for Christmas carols on the radio (already? And animated snow on WordPress’s login page. (I swear to God I’ll switch over to Blogger if they pull that next year.). Google recently unveiled their Updates feature, which is pretty if not spectacularly useful. An impressive demonstration is the results for Christmas. Is a big number (thanks, Discover! Fun fact: I’m actually Jewish, but Hanukkah. Has everythi...
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SI units: because 9,192,631,770 is such a round number | Fublag
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SI units: because 9,192,631,770 is such a round number. December 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm. Click for full 1024×768 image). Note: The kilogram is technically defined only from the ridiculous lump of metal in a vault in France. The thing with water is the traditional, imprecise definition, but I included it for the sake of explanation (maybe the second’s definition as a fraction of a day should be in there, but ah well.) I used the American spelling of. What’s the matter, guys? Entry filed under: Uncategorized.
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February | 2010 | Fublag
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Archive for February, 2010. The computer mouse is not, as many people assume, named after the similar-looking rodent. In fact, the term derives from the original model number Douglas Engelbart used: J-97. History was made when he accidentally typed the first word with his fingers a row too far down on the keyboard: “Mouse device ready for patent.”. February 9, 2010 at 2:58 pm. I’m shameless, but at least I can use LaTeX. (My renderer of choice is the Wikipedia sandbox.). February 1, 2010 at 11:20 pm.
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Chess Variants — Triangle Chess and Donut Chess | Fublag
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Chess Variants — Triangle Chess and Donut Chess. November 9, 2008 at 9:15 pm. I’ve been doodling lots of chess boards today:. I 3 the Wikipedia Sandbox. Before the details, here’s an xkcd chess set I designed:. Not much to say about it, really. If I ever get a 3D printer…. Now for the interesting part:. Triangle Chess: Pawns can only move forward along diagonals, and attack one square directly ahead. All other pieces move as usual. Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Applications of the Buttered Cat Paradox.
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November | 2008 | Fublag
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Archive for November, 2008. An ‘A’ made out of ‘B’s made out of ‘C’s made out of ‘D’s. First: note to xkcdling readers: it’ll be easiest to follow my blag from my sig. I’ll update for each new post, so you can just click over here :D. And now, your feature presentation:. It’s a bit large (768×768), but I made a 192×192 preview:. Time: 2/3 of a Simpsons episode). November 30, 2008 at 9:22 pm. Go ‘way and lemme read. Wow, a week? By Stephanie Meyer. Yes, author-of-Twilight Stephanie Meyer. In my defense, T...
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