Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: Taxonomic Data of the Breadties of the World. Did you know that there were so many genera and species of breadties?

A bit of a black eye for the IEEE. I suspect it's one of those conferences that's merely published by IEEE rather than actually sponsored by IEEE, but that distinction will be lost on many. Via Slashdot.

ETA: It's since been taken down by the IEEE, but I expected that to happen and saved a copy. It's a paper by Herbert Schlangemann in the 2008 Int. Conf. on Computer Science and Software Engineering, December 12-14, in Wuhan, China, titled Towards the Simulation of E-commerce. Abstract: “Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bit architectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering [19]. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce.”

The phrase I chose to title this posting is part of the first paragraph. There's also a footnote: “This work was supported by the automatic CS Paper Generator.” So you can try it yourself and get something that, while not identical, is equally deep and meaningful.

More information and a copy of the paper itself can be found at Schlangemann's blog.

Reference. Some self-referential humor pointed out by the denizens of Fark.

Erik, Marty, and Bettina will recall from our Wednesday night red bean popsicle expedition that the Koreans are no strangers to odd animation. So here's another one: singing carrots!

Who doesn't like Venn diagrams? And here's a fun one: politics, stupidity, and religion. Via Pharyngula.

Intelligent-design based sorting algorithm. The key idea: it's so unlikely to be in its current state that it must have been put there by an intelligent designer; consequently, it's already in the optimal order and no reordering need be done. Via Pharangula.

From Monday's Ph.D. comics:

Lego webcomic for topology nerds. Syndicated here as irregular_comic. Time to augment my flist...

Via grandiva1968: Math for Believers.

While critics decry the entry of religion into math class, fans of the new teaching method maintain that by giving God a primary role in geometry and other fields of mathematics, they are merely restoring balance to an area that has sought to remove all vestiges of religion from the public polygon.

I know it's a year old, but Google blog search only turned it up today...

Amazing New Hyperbolic Chamber Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Ever.

So where's my share of the "Jesus-kabillion dollars" of federal funds used for this research, huh?

Via alkal's mother, who made the same discovery a year too late.

"Math is delicious" T-shirts! Now with more integers. I must have one.

Euclid's 14th book discovered.
Via Chromium Sequarium.

Via TNH: q_pheevr provides the view from the North on Wrathful Dispersion Theory.

A chat with God about Intelligent Design.

Mother Goose and the scientific peer review process.

Via Tyler H.: Hamster Sudoku. Or neon Sudoku. Or Cthulhu Sudoku. Or whatever other flickr keyword you prefer...