I read Nate Silver and follow him on Twitter. I have never before heard him refer to someone as an asshole.
Category: Crazy
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tronc
One of Daring Fireball’s better brief blog posts:
Somebody launched a major re-branding after a four-martini lunch. Jiminy.
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How Old Is That World Map?
From XKCD a completely brilliant flow chart helping you determine how old a map is. There are amusing references to Narnia and radioactive spiders mixed in with accurate historical changes (What’s the capital of Micronesia? Kolonia or Palikir?).
Click it to get the big version, and really look at it.
My favorite real question is:
(Number of Yemens) + (Number of Germanys)= ? (possible answers are 2-4).
Seriously, read the whole thing.
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Our company, Origami Risk, is sponsoring a rather unusual endeavor. Last summer we had a few interns from the University of Georgia. Some are now working for us full time.
One of them is planning to row from California to Hawaii.
Jacob Pope is a rower on the UGA rowing team. He’s also a hemophiliac. With his best friend and fellow rower Chris Lee, he is raising money and awareness for hemophilia by rowing for a month or so. Straight.
This is a real thing. The Great Pacific Race brings teams from around the world to row 2,400 miles. It takes from 30-80 days depending on the crew and the weather. You live in your boat. And these boats aren’t big.
If they pull it off, they will be the youngest team to do it, and Jacob will be the first hemophiliac to complete the journey. Of course, they don’t just want to finish, they want to win.
It’s crazy, dangerous, inspiring, all of the above. If you want to contribute, you can do so here. Origami Risk is in for $25K.
The race starts on June 4th. I wish them strength and luck, they’ll need both.
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Darth Trump
This tweet is from one of the judges Trump has on his Supreme Court list:
https://twitter.com/JusticeWillett/status/718280241752510465
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Naked Backdoor
From SMBC, of course…
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73
I’m partial to 42 but I like this article, referencing the possible record breaking 73 wins for the Warriors tonight:
In an episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” the character Sheldon Lee Cooper says that this is one of several properties that make seventy-three “the best number.” As for the other properties: “It is the twenty-first prime number. Its mirror, thirty-seven, is the twelfth. And its mirror, twenty-one, is the product of multiplying—hang onto your hats—seven and three.” He goes on to add, “In binary, seventy-three is a palindrome: 1001001.”
42 is merely the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything…
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Grammar Nerds Unite
Stephen Hawking is a Russian billionaire?
(Sorry, just trolling fans of the Oxford comma.)
bit.ly/1VkvFdG https://t.co/2UAaEjNJhH—
Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 13, 2016just trolling fans of the Oxford comma.
Classic.
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A Bad Day
H/T Barry Ritholtz:
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