Not sure why but I read the title of that post as "Store the energy in a massive virgin".

Agreed. Someone once told me about one of John Ellis's students asking them to do a Monte Carlo simulation, and sending the results back saying "it's not random enough". Ignorance about random number generators is everywhere.

Good post. As far as I'm aware, the guy 'who invented matrix theory' you refer to was in fact G. H Hardy, who was actually famous for his work in number theory. This really was a subject without practical applications, at least until RSA came along. Matrices have always been a useful calculational tool.

I like it. Maybe I'm alone here, but note in the article that Shuttleworth says that some notifications are important and should be treated differently (as "persistent panel indicators") - but there's no reason why you should have to click on "Wifi stopped working" and "Wifi started working", hence distracting you from what you're doing. Exploring new ideas is more important than whether they're good or bad, especially four months ahead of release.