Saturday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• Today is the last day to get free shipping on SC's art!


• What happens when you take the most fertile land on Earth and grow corn on it? This. The population crash can't happen soon enough.


• When I worked on my MS in computer science, I spent most of my time looking at the edgier side of things, such as emergent phenomena - basically, simple rules that generate beautiful, complex behavior. For example, this is what happens when you run one specific line of BASIC on a Commodore 64.


• Joe Scarborough really doesn't Nate Silver or anything he stands for.


• Surely there are more effective ways to satisfy one's urges as a creepy old man than this?


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