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Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.

- carmen herrera

a chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing

time tree - “the timescale of life” - shows approximately how long ago two species diverged. it was maybe about 100 million years ago that the last ancestor i shared with my cat lived and produced offspring that would eventually become us.

previously

currently designing some sick software to aid next wednesday’s experiment…

The Beauty of Roots is a remarkable look into patterns that emerge from mathematics. The page has several amazing high-resolution plots of the roots of polynomials whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. I wish I understood more about this sort of stuff, because some of these images are profoundly interesting.

Above - the hole that appears around i (the √ of -1).

DOT Sandblasts 14 Blocks of Bike Lane Off Bedford Avenue in Hasidic Williamsburg

Outrageous!!! I propose “scantily clad” protests EVERY FUCKING SATURDAY until they put these bikelanes back. Or complaining nicely on this page or by calling the Brooklyn Borough Commissioner at (718) 222-7259.

An anonymous commenter on Vos Iz Neias? says

This is great news…for some reason, the bikers on Bedford Avenue typically dress in the most revealing clothing and raise really serious tzinius issues….moving them away to Kent will be a real gift to those of us who really don’t want to see this trashy dress, especially when walking to and from shul on shabbos…

I’ve never been more motivated to ride topless down bedford ave…

today, the golden gate bridge from a convertable