A strange bright yellow thing beyond the blue bit in the sky
at the Castle this morn, loads of lack of warm, little ex skywater and lavish
amounts of atmospheric movement, the butler is stuffing fat, carbon neutral
teenagers into the furnace at more than a rate of knots and the interweb thingy
has caught a cold and keeps fading in and out, hence the late start.
Whilst dahn at the snotty, vomiting brat infested general medic’s
surgery I had my flu jab and yes (I don’t care what “science” says) I have a
temperature, aching limbs, a cough and the sneezes.
Has finally tipped over the divide between “normality” and
politics, reckoning that his “new” post as monster without portfolio will give
him the chance to “roam Whitehall, bestowing upon his younger colleagues “the
benefits of my wisdom on a much wider range of subjects”, as “an elder
statesman … I’m able to advise, put my oar in and contribute to a whole lot of
policymaking, particularly the economy, particularly trade, particularly
national security”.
And reckons that “If the economy comes right, we’ll sail
home”.
And if we had some ham we could have ham and eggs-if we had
some eggs....
According to physicists the universe may be a computer
simulation, and to prove it they made a computer simulation of the universe and
it looks sort of like us.
A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and
popular culture, points out that any civilisation of sufficient size and
intelligence would eventually create a simulation universe if such a thing were
possible.And since there would therefore be many more simulations (within simulations, within simulations) than real universes, it is therefore more likely than not that our world is artificial.
Now a team of researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany led by Silas Beane say they have evidence this may be true.
In a paper named ‘Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation’, they point out that current simulations of the universe – which do exist, but which are extremely weak and small – naturally put limits on physical laws.
For instance, something known as the
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin, or GZK cut off, is an apparent boundary of the energy
that cosmic ray particles can have. This is caused by interaction with cosmic
background radiation. But Beane and co’s paper argues that the pattern of this
rule mirrors what you might expect from a computer simulation.
In that case...can we have a reboot please? Must be
something to do with penguins being black and white TVs...
Your wish could be fulfilled, just go to the Wayback Machine who are offering about 80 terabytes of WARC files containing captures of about 2.7 billion URIs. The
files contain text content and any media that we were able to capture,
including images, flash, videos, etc.and ask nicely.
You could get:
Crawl start date:
09 March, 2011
Crawl end date: 23
December, 2011
Number of captures:
2,713,676,341
Number of unique
URLs: 2,273,840,159
Number of hosts:
29,032,069
If you would like access to this set of crawl data, please
contact Wayback Machine at info at archive dot org and let us know
who you are and what you’re hoping to do with it. They may not be able to say
“yes” to all requests, since they are just figuring out whether this is a good
idea, but everyone will be considered.
Or; you could just get a life....
And the prospect of gangs of badly dressed snotty nosed
begging brats about to descend on unsuspecting householders, you might like to
invest in one of these...
Or better still some boiling oil, a baseball bat and a Taser.
And finally:
Over in the backwoods of one of the United States someone
called Hickok45 shows us how to kill a pumpkin.
You could add a bit of C4 to the list above...
And today’s thought:
Are we in Paris yet?
Angus
