Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
Samuel Clemens 1835 – 1910
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Month: November 2007
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Rejected iPod Engravings
Amazing Math trick with paper, scissors, and tape
Here’s something fun, not too heavy on the Math unless you want it to be, and quite remarkable to those who haven’t seen this before. You’re going to create a Moebius strip, and variations on it, and surprise yourself and others when you see what you get when you cut the Moebius strip in various ways. A Moebius strip is a strip of paper that you tape together at both ends, but before you do, you make a half twist in the strip. Your Moebius strip should look like the one in the picture…
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We’re tops in vanity plates
* Virginia, that is. I live in Maryland and work in Northern Virginia, so I see a bunch of vanity plates in traffic and parking lots, every day.
Virginia has the highest percentage of personalized, or vanity, license plates in the country, a first-of-its-kind survey shows.
One meets one’s destiny often in the road one takes to avoid it.
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Saving the Earth at 8 mpg
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Steelcase
I need this.
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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