a one-sided witty repartee.

Jan 31 2012 ∞
“ Erdős asks us to imagine an alien force, vastly more powerful than us, landing on Earth and demanding the value of R(5, 5) or they will destroy our planet. In that case, he claims, we should marshal all our computers and all our mathematicians and attempt to find the value. But suppose, instead, that they ask for R(6, 6). In that case, he believes, we should attempt to destroy the aliens.
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Joel Spencer, on Ramsey’s Theorem of graph coloring

I knew I loved Paul Erdös, the famously peripatetic mathematician who dubbed himself a “machine for turning coffee into theorems,” but this is totally my new favorite mathematical theorem.

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Jan 30 2012 ∞

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Jan 28 2012 ∞

It Was a Good Day.

Thanks to this young Sherlock’s deductive ninjitsu, you now know that the world just barely missed celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the day Ice Cube described in his 1993 hit “It Was A Good Day”: January 20, 1992. 

So, you know, don’t use your AK.

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Jan 26 2012 ∞
“

9. If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.

10. The next morning I get up early and edit the gush.

11. Then I take the train to New York and my secretary types a draft. (I cannot type, which is very inconvenient.)

12. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or five editings, it looks good enough to show to the client. If the client changes the copy, I get angry—because I took a lot of trouble writing it, and what I wrote I wrote on purpose.
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David Ogilvy, in a letter of note, describes his method for generating advertising.

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TIL. via Facts and Chicks, which is exactly what you think it is.

TIL.

via Facts and Chicks, which is exactly what you think it is.

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Jan 24 2012 ∞
“ It was some type of technical malfunction that caused the pilot to perform a crash landing at sea, a few miles off the coast of Point Reyes. It was October, and the water in Northern California in October is quite cold, usually in the mid-50s. Anderson and [Clint] Eastwood climbed out onto the wing of the plane […] With the plane going down, the pair jumped off and started swimming towards the shoreline, with the current pulling them north. They promised to try to stay together.
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Clint Eastwood Actually Is Bad-Ass In Real Life.

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Jan 23 2012 ∞

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." --Lewis Carroll

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Jan 20 2012 ∞
via the New Shelton wet/dry

via the New Shelton wet/dry

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Jan 19 2012 ∞
“ Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
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1 Corinthians 9:26-27, as tattooed across the back of Oscar Pistorius, set to be the first double amputee to compete in the 400 meters at the 2012 Olympics in London. Pistorius was prevented from competing in 2008 by the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing organization for track and field competitions, on the grounds that his carbon-fiber prostheses offered him an advantage over able-bodied runners, but new researchers on his side have demonstrated that the IAAF’s case was at best inconclusive; at worst a “kangaroo court” blackballing the differently-abled.

Now all that stands between the man and a medal are the 45.30 second qualifying time for the 400 (his best is 45.07); a strong field of South African sprinters among whom he must place top three; and that last four hundred meters to the finish with the world watching.

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via 20x200

via 20x200

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Jan 17 2012 ∞
the internet.

the internet.

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Jan 14 2012 ∞
I have been to Amsterdam and this is pretty accurate.

I have been to Amsterdam and this is pretty accurate.

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Jan 10 2012 ∞
“ The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication—the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in Mad Men. This maddening show is nothing more than a soap opera, set in a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffured secretaries, suck up martinis, and smoke themselves to death as they produce dumb, lifeless advertising—oblivious to the inspiring Civil Rights movement, the burgeoning Women’s Lib movement, the evil Vietnam war, and the other seismic changes during the turbulent, roller-coaster 1960s that altered America forever. The more I think about Mad Men, the more I take the show as a personal insult. So, fuck you Mad Men—you phony, “Gray Flannel Suit,” male-chauvinist, no-talent, WASP, white-shirted, racist, anti-semitic, Republican SOBs.
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George Lois, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book “Damn Good Advice”

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Jan 08 2012 ∞

That’s it, I’m going to start going to yoga classes.

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edit: This reminded me of you. If you’re reading this, know that I still think about you.

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Dec 19 2011 ∞

Christmas + Better than Christmas = this video.

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