Henry Hagnäs

This reminds me of an anecdote about a formal dinner at Buckingham Palace attended by the ex-cabinet minister Norman Tebbit and his wife Margaret, who was badly disabled in the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing. It wasn't long after the bombing and they found themselves seated alongside Prince Charles and having big trouble negotiating the salad course due to her inability to manage the cutlery. Charles noticed this and, continuing the conversation without breaking stride, started eating his own salad with his hands. Class.

Can't find any reference for this, but want to believe it's true.

Lovely anecdote. The rest of the discussions are also quite interesting and inspiring in a way.

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.

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

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.

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).

"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?"

This is one awesome rant, we need more angry mathematicians :D