Abstruse Goose (yet another XKCD ripoff, but a particularly good one, once again illustrating the principle that only math people have anything meaningful to say: besides, "Rite of Passage" feels kinda familiar)Alpha Status: "Indirect Effects of...

Among the pile of books that I caught during my last library run, I picked up two collections of Manhunter, a DC comics superheroine previously unknown to me. Both its execution and premise are excellent and original in how it subtly lampshades many...

In principle, the halting problem would also be simple enough to explain in a first programming course, it's just that the tools needed to express it are not that straightforward in imperative languages. But the basic idea is just as simple as with the...

In a comment to a previous post, "Secret Asian Man" noted that "My indigenous culture opposes homosexuality" is the Gödel sentence of liberalism. I am actually angry that I didn't think to coin that one, just like another great term "Green Man's...

Two news articles about women's sports in Canada. First, the ice rinks of Toronto will from now on give equal time to girls' teams. Second, the female ski jumpers are demanding that women's ski jump be included as an olympic event in Vancouver, taking...