Thursday, February 26, 2009

Artist puts Royal Mail to the test

...with a series of 130 progressively more trickily addressed envelopes, all but 10 of which were successfully delivered.

Monday, February 09, 2009

Amusements for the day

What do news anchors do during the commercial breaks?

Nice music video.

Monday, February 02, 2009

The Numbers behind NUMB3RS

From Cosmic Variance:
"The show's creators, Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, had a goal from the beginning of creating an entertaining hour of television that would involve science in an intimate way. As part of the effort, they've partnered with Wolfram Research to follow each episode with a web page delving into the various mathematical concepts that were discussed, including Mathematica notebooks to illustrate the various ideas."

And here's the website.