nameandnature

Heresy Corner: Equality before the law: "If Harriet Harman's odious Equality Bill reaches the statute book in anything like its current form (in other words, if the House of Lords doesn't manage to delay it before a general election intervenes) then there may well be social and legal chaos in this country. There will also be a lot more work for lawyers. A lot." - Heresiarch reckons the Equality Bill is a bad thing.
(tags: law politics equality)
Killing In The Climb - rathergood.com: Why have them vying for the Christmas number one when you can combine them?
(tags: music video rathergood funny mashup)
DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine: "David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire." - Vice Magazine interview him.
(tags: vicemagazine the-wire tv-programmes tv television wire crime drugs politics journalism)
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
(tags: religion funny onion history creationism)
IEEE Spectrum: Math Quiz: Why Do Men Predominate?: "among top math performers, the gender gap doesn’t exist in some ethnic groups and in some countries. The researchers conclude that culture is the main reason more men excel at the highest math levels in most countries."
(tags: maths mathematics gender feminism equality)
The C Programming Language: 4.10 by Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft: "C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak little to outsiders but much among themselves.

Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the events of the winter of 1927-28, the abnormally large number of calls placed upon the stack, the swiftness with which that list was sorted, the disturbing lack of heap allocation throughout the proceedings, and the secrecy surrounding the affair."
(tags: funny humour parody C programming lovecraft horror)