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Favorite anagram for new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: Shit Enthrones. -> Traveling. Volunteers? RT @jholston: Can @pkedrosky read this and please translate for humanity? TIA. http://t.co/TlAQrvK5 -> Didier's finish at Kitzbuhel this weekend. Such a great moment. http://t.co/d2zG4qH6 -> Retiring Didier Cuche Sets Record at Kitzbühel – http://t.co/V9PwuZm2 -> Imagine if drastic change required. Whew....

Computing probabilities in the license plate game http://t.co/p4B6vOol -> How 1920s Auto Shows Sparked a Color Revolution: Echoes- http://t.co/b8Vmi77k -> Latest SSEC animation of the river of moisture hitting US west coast. Looks weirdly alive. http://t.co/KJIsG5fM -> Writer Michael Lewis in conversation with Graydon Carter, 1/8 – http://t.co/lCeDgtII ->

.@davidhfe Totally glad Wikipedia is back. Its absence on matters like electromagnetic weaponry was palpable. in reply to davidhfe -> You know you needed this: List of electromagnetic projectile devices in fiction – http://t.co/RPPfsjT2 -> Year ago, but … the mystery of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom/Schmitz – http://t.co/DPkuKmC6 -> Whoa, in retaliation for Megaupload bust,...

“Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.” - Leo Szilard via THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON | More Intelligent Life.

GRL: A recent and abrupt decline in the East African long rains http://t.co/B6wbooiw -> PNAS: Global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased http://t.co/ff1JcRwb -> Cheap Trick, Surrender. Live at Budokan. And you lovely people thought I didn't care about you. http://t.co/NA08N0aE -> Benford's Law, and worldwide illicit financial flows http://t.co/g6ppa5a5 -> Turntable For...

Intriguing new paper: The leading digit distribution of the worldwide illicit financial flows Benford’s law states that in many data sets the overall distribution of the significant digits tends to be logarithmic so that the occurrence of numbers beginning with smaller first significant digits is more often than those with larger ones. We investigate here...

Samsung: We are not buying RIM! Will you please listen? We are not buying RIM, do you understand? Honestly! RIM bull: Only someone buying RIM denies their buying.Samsung: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am buying RIM! RI...

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QotD: "If I had this [voice-controlled TV], I'd read a lot more books". http://t.co/j2WsxkHz /via @emilychangtv -> Oye. RT @Esquiremag: So this happened on Jeopardy just now: http://t.co/vrXosIOi -> .@boblesko No, it's for a presentation I'm working on. Don't ask. in reply to boblesko -> Reading that Klingons supplanted Romulans as foes in original Star...

Good reading from New Scientist on Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. Why was this massive ship so close to shallow rock outcrops? Mark Staunton-Lambert, technical director of the London-based Royal Institution of Naval Architects, says this is the main question investigators will want answering. GPS and sonar instruments should have warned of the danger, he...

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Unsettling new paper: Stochastic modeling of a serial killer We analyze the time pattern of the activity of a serial killer, who during twelve years had murdered 53 people. The plot of the cumulative number of murders as a function of time is of “Devils staircase” type. The distribution of the intervals between murders step...