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Jul 9, 2012 (6 days ago)

United Shapes

from xkcd.com

That eggplant is in something of a flaccid state.

Jul 10, 2012 (5 days ago)

What If?

from xkcd.com

I get a lot of strange hypothetical science questions in my email. People get in debates with their friends - stuff like "what would happen if someone threw a baseball at nearly the speed of light?" or "how many velociraptors would it take to kill <fictional creature>" - and for whatever reason, they decide to email me about it. Puzzling over these questions is a lot of fun, and so I've decided to set up a blog to collect and try to answer them.

You can find it at what-if.xkcd.com. I'll put up a new question and answer every Tuesday. To start things off, I've got two entries disucssing questions I've received-one about relativistic baseball and one about guessing on the SAT.

Jul 11, 2012 (4 days ago)

VIM 101: a quick-and-dirty guide to our favorite free file editor

from Engadget by John Browning

In the world of text editors, there's a plethora of options out there. If you've ever Googled "how to edit HTML sites" or some such, you know what we mean. Allow us, then, to introduce you to VIM, a free website editor that offers many of the same features as Adobe Dreamweaver, and runs on just about every desktop platform. Specifically, it comes by default on the vast majority of Linux distributions, OS X and commercial Unix systems. (It's available to install on Windows, too.) And did we mention it's free? That command line UI isn't necessarily self-explanatory, though, so join us after the break for a quick crash course to help you get started.
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