I've been having fun recently reading the wikipedia talk pages on disputed topics. One of these was about whether parapsychology should be a subclass of psychology or fruitloopery. Sorry, that last word should have been "fringe science".

However, I kind of take the point that the study of nonsense like ghosts can still be scientific, in a way. Well, for a while at least. Certainly a subject like cryptozoology that at least gets some results is surely a science.

(oh, and you could tone down the language just a little - I mean, I don't mind swearing, but fucking hell!)

Speaking as a molecular biologist? Wot.

If you were a zoologist - perhaps even a cryptozoologist - this might make sense. Yes it is very doubtful that some human (-like?) species is still alive - but then again, there was Homo floresiensis which may have been alive as little as 12,000 years ago. It's not impossible that some tiny population has hung on in the very large wild areas of Siberia.

Poured into cross-cap cups?

Or toilet tissue:

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/penrose.htm

Oh, and the main problem I found with Vietnamese notes was the exchange rate, like trying to pay for a 20,000 taxi fare with a 200,000 - quite different!

You're right about self-similarity, but I wonder whether quasicrystals don't have some statistical properties that are constant across scales... Actually, I've just googled it:

Self-similarity of Quasi-periodic lattice (Sun Jirong, 1996) : http://cpl.iphy.ac.cn/qikan/manage/wenzhang/0090419.pdf

Quite a mathematical paper. Oh, and this also looks interesting (nice pictures, also):

Wallpaper patterns with self-similar and graph-directed fractal lattice units (Deniz et al, 2011) : http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/ozdemirsept2011/Wallpaper.pdf

Me either; I don't even think that the higher order concept like monads or arrows are even relevant to most programming. Also, I find actual maths easier to read than Haskell or lisp - it's not just a question of not 'getting' the language; it's not very gettable.

(I hope no-one from lambda-the-ultimate comes across this comment thread or they'll be irritated.)

Oh please no - that proof ... it doesn't have to be written in Haskell, does it?

Fair point, but I'm guessing that authors who provide well formatted papers to a journal don't get discounts...

I liked the part where the directors name was parodied in such an effective way. "Jerk jerk A" - priceless!

Heh, that made me chuckle. What should the icon be, though? A double decker bus, a pint of real ale, a cup of tea and a cigarette? I'm struggling here to think of a symbol that represents all of us Brittanites.

Sayeth wikipedia:

So, probably okay unless Ultraman wants to look at a strong source in a vaccum.

Yeah, found them : http://slashdot.org/~ThatCopyrightMadow

Weird. It's like spam, but also like a high troll. Oh well.

Except don't use jQuery if your page is XHTML, as there is a bug in the latest version (bug id : #9479).

I didn't make any statements that required sources. Also, I wasn't rude to you, but you chose to be rude to me. Perhaps you are trolling, perhaps you are drunk, perhaps you are simply an idiot. Whatever, I'm not interested in anything else you have to say. Continue to piss into the wind if you like, you'll just get wet.