Quaternion Julia Fractals
These beautiful shapes are three dimensional slices of four dimensional objects known as quaternion Julia sets.
I See Sierpinski Shapes by the Sea Shore
The patterns on this sea shell appear to be very similar to that of a mathematical structure called a Sierpinski triangle.
Great Moments in Bat Science
Shuttle Discovery was launched this Sunday. If you look at a picture of liftoff, there appears to be something on the side of the external fuel tank.
Going Out With A Bang
“The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking.”
Waterloo Engineering Welcoming Committee
This is probably the last thing you want to see if you’re dropping your daughter off at her new dorm.
Great Signs of Europe
Last year I traveled around Europe in search of the greatest signs known to humanity. Here’s the cream of the crop.
Wain’s Kalideoscope Cats
Lous Wain was an artist popular for his paintings of cats in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The following pictures of cats are typically interpreted as illustrating the increasing effects of his schizophrenia.
Fermilab’s Strange Letter – Interlude
The “BASSE” misspelling is explained – and unfortunately, not much else. CSV of transcribed code available for download.
Fermilab’s Strange Letter – Progress
Well, now we’re getting somewhere with the strange letter Fermilab received. For context, Fermilab (a theoretical physics laboratory) recieved a strange letter in code a year ago that they’ve now released to the public.
Fermilab’s Strange Letter
Fermilab PR just released a scan of a coded message they received a year ago, and are asking for help decoding it.
