This is horrible. Hundreds of dolphins have been rounded up in a cove in Taiji, Japan and are either being killed for meat or enslaved for life after being sold for large sums of money to marine parks and aquariums. If it were not for the demand from marine parks and aquariums and the exhorbitant…

Found out that the type of coffee table I visualize having with my new Ikea Tidafors tullinge-grey loveseat is a mid-century or danish design. One can view Google Images for these keywords and see many different, interesting examples of types of coffee tables with these designs. The main features I like/want are: rectangular top with…

I’ve been using a YYYY.MM.DD naming format for data for a long time but never actually thought about using YY.MM.DD. There’s something cool about it. In addition, the dimensions and size of the bank register she is holding are perfect. Even the line spacing is exactly perfect. Here is another beatiful Japanese interior. I looks…

Complex types of scattering of electromagnetic radiation called “B modes” may reveal clues about the early Universe. Scientists have just managed to detect one type of B-mode scattering associated with gravitational lensing, which is leading them closer to being able to detect inflationary B-modes. Basically complex polarization patterns of Cosmic Microwave Background energy are like…

Often we feel thankful or grateful for something yet we do not take the time to express it. More and more and more I strongly feel that we should. If we feel grateful about things we should express that gratitude. There is a saying “The meek shall inherit the Earth” which comes from the Beatitudes,…

One thing I like about Iceweasel with Debian (currently using the stable distribution “Wheezy”) is that it is 64-bit (if you’re running the 64-bit version of Wheezy). To me, the buttons do not look as classy and svelte as the Windows version of Firefox, but I’m slowly adjusting to that. One annoyance which I can’t…

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“Ideally it should be 36 degrees” according to video Calligraphy Tools by Professor Santosh Kshrisagar. “Left oblique” nibs are made for left-handers, and also for right-handed people doing calligraphy in Devanagari or Arabic. from A Few Notes about Fountain Pens In summary: Nib should be left oblique Angle should be 36 degrees It may be…

…a telecommunications consulting engineer who was inspired by the incredible advances in CPU speeds that the computer industry has now come to take for granted. Dixon’s belief was that far more economical telephony systems could be created if a card existed that had nothing more on it than the basic electronic components required to interface…

Reading articles earlier and ended up at a page What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like. There was another site with audio of people reading short stories in reconstructed proto-indo-european but I wonder if they got the phonology right because many of the words sounded harsh and not natural, like something some overly-theoretical linguists would come…