Interesting Perspective on Respect

Go here and then use your browser function to search for "Mocking Mom".

Reading the article, I noticed arguments, defenses, and denials coming up from time to time. Notice them, let them go, and keep reading.

Human Nature 1; Technology 0

Isn't it interesting how we keep expecting technology to change human nature, and keep being surprised when it doesn't?

Clever Idea

A restaurant that serves just beverages and desserts called 'Cut to the Chase'. Somebody open it.

Oxymoron

Why would a store called "Outdoor World" be *inside* a building?

Euclid and Diophantes(?)

http://www.math.mtu.edu/mathlab/COURSES/holt/dnt/ describes how to apply Euclid's algorithm to Diophantine equations. Something from CSMN 614 (Algorithms and Data Structures) at Univerisity of Maryland.

Computing dates in your head

http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html is an interesting site that teaches you how to figure out which day of the week of a particular date falls on... using the calendar in your head. You'll also be able to calculate the date of, say, the third Friday in March or the second Wednesday in June.