Exactly, since Julius Caesar was never crowned emperor.

Si te placet, "videtur"

The whole "1970s computer graphics technique" thing is sort of silly anyway. If anything, it's surprising that the technique was invented so recently. "Area under curve in Second Life calculated by 1600s mathematics technique..."

It's not the radiation pressure from the sun that they're calculating, it's thermal effects from the on-board plutonium on the back of the antenna. So the source of the slowing is a very short distance away.

"quite obviously"... or is coincidental. Does "gddmn" mean "goddamn", or is that coincidental too? Maybe "se" means the characters before it are either plaintext ("nearse") or abbreviated plaintext ("gddmnse" => "goddamn"? "nptnse" => "and put in"? "inputing"? "and put on"?)

Love that dirty water... Boston, you're my home!

If New York City were hit by a 9.0 earthquake [...] Then if there's a Tsunami to follow, there could be another 10 million (at least) killed from that. Because DC, Baltimore, Phildelphia Newark, and Boston would also be affected. Tsunamis are frightfully destructive, but they don't turn sharp corners. Look at http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/indo20041226/Figure_1_sign.jpg. DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston would all be fine, as the tsunami from a NYC earthquake would do little to water levels in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac (Cape Charles is in the way), the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River (Cape May is in the way), and the Massachusetts Bay (Cape Cod is in the way).

Johnny-come-lately here, but mod parent up!

The counterpunch.org page on the other side of that link is fearmongering. Its tone in a microcosm: "[...] there is no safe dose of radiation, and none will ever be found."

Isn't it the case that the iPad YouTube app gives access to only a subset of YouTube? It seems to be the subset of videos that are most popular, true, but it seems to me that there are times I can find an unpopular video on YouTube that I can't find on my iPad. Checking online, though, it appears I should just be going to m.youtube.com on my iPad anyway instead of using the app -- good to know.

Well, Ono can't win the Fields medal for it -- he's too old. (Born in 1968; you can't win the Fields medal after 40.)

Congratulations, you just solved the shortest-path problem, which is also solved by several known polynomial-time algorithms.

On the other hand, I can't fault anyone who can speak Mandarin for the boilerplate nature of his or her remarks in English. What exactly could I say in Mandarin about the success of this train? Not much more than "We go to Hangzhou." The phrase "I want chopsticks", while useful in other contexts, falls short here...

Here's the end of game 7 of the 1960 World Series. One of the two greatest moments in Pittsburgh sports history; the other is of course the one at this link. (Not to sell any of the Super Bowl moments short, especially not this one.)