Hulleye Comes By!

feeling scholarly? think you can get into MIT. think you could have gotten in if it was 138 years ago? MIT just released scans of images of their entrance exams for algebra, arithmetic, geometry and english back from 1869. check it out. it’s rather amusing. and moreso the fact that most high school kids today would have this knowledge.

so i’ve blogged before about muslims in space and the conundrums that they will face. looks like there’s a dude from malaysia who’s about to head for the ISS, who will not only have to figure out where mecca is, but will also have to figure out how to fast while figuring out sunets and sunrises. good luck buddy is all i can say.

the olive ream just won the post of the day award.

He had been planning this attack for ages. He waited when she was at her most vulnerable and then raided her home with the intention of invading not just her privacy. He ripped off his scruples, gave into avarice and pounced on her. He tore up her country to usurp her bountiful resource(s). She screamed as he tried to massage her ego by saying this is what she wanted and then planted a big, wet puppet regime on her.

keep reading. it’s worth it.

The first quantum computer chips have been made by two US groups, New Scientist reports. Both NIST and Yale have demonstrated chips where information was transferred between two superconducting qubits using a ‘quantum bus’. The bus is made from a cavity that traps a single microwave photon as a standing wave — the NIST group also managed to use the bus to store data from one qubit for a short time. ‘After encoding information in one qubit, they transferred it into the cavity for 10 nanoseconds before transferring it to the other qubit. Yale’s chip used qubits around 1-micron square built on silicon, while NIST used larger 10-square-micron qubits on top of sapphire. In both prototypes, the bus between the qubits was between five and seven millimeters long.

So this guy recently decided to read the Bible in it’s entirety, and then follow every single rule within it. All 700 or so of them. And he did it for an entire year. This included rules such as the ten commandments to the less obscure living in huts and not cutting side hair, to strict diets. There is an interesting interview about him at Newsweek online. Go and read the answers to questions such as which was the hardest rule, to whether or not it made him any more religious or whether the Bible is a greater learning tool rather than the Encyclopaedia.