Monday Links from a Tight Deadline vol. CLX

[Platypus]

Ten Hundred Words of Science - Inspired by the recent Xkcd comic about the Saturn 5 Rocket Up Goer Five, Theo Sanderson has created The Up-Goer Five Text Editor, an online writing tool that restricts you to using the thousand most commonly used English words. Academics of many disciplines have taken to this with great delight, and this is a collection of some of the best pieces, explaining such things as quantum mechanics ("We know that everything is made of very little things...") and Godel's Incompletenes Theorem ("Mr Goedel then showed these people how he could build another problem just for them, which they could not answer using numbers together with their other stuff. No matter how much stuff people tried to use, he could always give them a problem which they could not find an answer to").

Wonderful stuff, thanks!

[wobbegong]

personally, I was looking at the ale

Is that a bottle of Bass on the counter?

[NickFitz]

Is that a bottle of Bass on the counter?

Indeed: "The beer bottles depicted are easily identified by the red triangle on the label as Bass Pale Ale, and the conspicuous presence of this English brand instead of German beer has been interpreted as documentation of anti-German sentiment in France in the decade after the Franco-Prussian War."

[EternalOptimist]

Indeed: "The beer bottles depicted are easily identified by the red triangle on the label as Bass Pale Ale, and the conspicuous presence of this English brand instead of German beer has been interpreted as documentation of anti-German sentiment in France in the decade after the Franco-Prussian War."

So much interpretation of that painting. but the whiteboard copy is amazing. to have such skill..

[NickFitz]

So much interpretation of that painting. but the whiteboard copy is amazing. to have such skill..

I know. It's also quite amazing that he can do something like that, then just clean the board and start all over again.