Henry Hagnäs

 

Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage's speech to Harvard Humanism Society

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
via boingboing.net

I'm continually amazed over how eloquent Adam Savage, from the Mythbusters for those of you living in a cave, is.

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Posted April 21, 2010
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Quote of the month from article on iPhone's rise and "fall"

What if Microsoft took a 30% tax for all of those (not made by Microsoft) that were sold? They'd have so much money they'd have to burn it just to store it.
via communities-dominate.blogs.com

The article itself is a long-winded but thoughtful analysis and history of the iPhone. Tommi Ahonen is fun to read if you care about the mobile industry but uses too many words. Basically he argues that the iPhone market-share is currently peaking or has peaked (doesn't mean that iPhone will die, or that he hates the iPhone, just that while Apple will continue to be extremely profitable it still is a small luxury niche player in the mobile market).

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Posted April 11, 2010
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Pseudomathematics @ Things Of Interest

"I'm sorry. Did you just argue back? Perhaps you mistook mathematics for one of your airy-fairy grey-area subjects? Literary analysis? Philosophy, maybe?"
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This is one awesome rant, we need more angry mathematicians :D

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Posted November 29, 2009
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