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.

Nowhere at all. You're absolutely right that there are rapid changes (or 'phase changes' in the jargon of some fields). However, if those happened to ice sheets, we might reasonably expect to have seen them before, right?

Sorry to say this, but this statement is nonsense. Yes, ice melts - that much is obvious - but the observation is that it is melting faster than records show. We can't conclusively prove it is humans except by removing everyone from the planet and watching what happens. Since (thankfully) we're not going to do that, the next best proof is to check what happened before we arrived. If there is no other cause - like massive new volcanoes in the pacific or penguins inventing explosives - I think it makes sense to at least look in humanities direction, if not point the finger at us.

I don't believe in the existence of this 'Tea Party'. It's all an invention of 'Big Tea Party'.

Well, but they might reasonably object that little ice ages are not the same as melting ice shelves? A short term drop in temperature is different to a rapid rise in temperature - assuming that the shelves are breaking up due to increased temperatures