From Wired News:

If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant e. E, for those not blessed with a Ph.D. and a job at Google, is Euler’s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.

A nerd is a nerd is a nerd.

There seems to be no shortage of digital cornucopias. Here’s another one: Making of America, a collection of American magazines from the latter half of the 19th century. They’ve got Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, and stuff I’ve never heard of (which isn’t that suprising).

The decision has been made: I’m going to download all this, get an IV drip, and spend the rest of my days digging through the volumes upon volumes of free text the ’Net has to offer.

A music video/Hollywood director quiz (scored 6 out of 10), a Tarantino quiz (9 out of 10) and an article detailing the movies Kill Bill references.

So okay, it doesn’t just list the movies that are referenced but actually talks of volume 1.

Okay, here’s a bunch of stuff I’ve bookmarked but haven’t really had time to go through: $14 Steady-Cam (check out the first sample video), a series of articles on the Nobel-winner sperm bank, sports and blogging are a great match (both from Slate), In Our Time archives (BBC Radio 4’s popular science et al show), yet another piece on the relationship of blogging and journalism, what’s the deal with ebooks anyhow?, hypertext nonfiction, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Economic and Social Systems (This wide-ranging book is about how machines, the economy, and all large human-made inventions are becoming biological.), a review of two books about primates (from LRB), The Corpse (an online Dark Horse comic book, nay, graphic novel), The History of the DeCSS Haiku, the Skeptic Magazine and an article on ”the next Christianity” (from The Atlantic).

There.

Okay, I can’t resist adding these three: Why nerds are unpopular, five geek social fallacies (which are both sorta insta-classics and quite American as well) and Columbine, five years later (from Salon).

Here’s a Kill Bill game, made with Flash. Appropriate waste of time ’till Friday, when Volume Two hits the multiplex.

En minä taida ymmärtää Schrödingerin kissan merkitystä vieläkään, mutta maailmaa vahtiva chinchilla on hieno ajatus.

Apua, taas paljon luettavaa! Mikä Babylon 5:ssä oli väärin, mitä telkkuscifille voisi tapahtua B5:n jälkeen, onko scifillä enää tulevaisuutta ja sitten vielä ajan vääntely, xenolingvistiikka ja englanti tulevaisuudessa. Toivottavasti ovat edes hyviä.

Alex Jamesin juttu brittien rokkigaaloista sisältää lauseen I once caught fire at the Q awards. NERD:istä puolestaan kirjoitetaan A newly resurgent archetype: the black nerd, the hyper-smart and proud of it African-American geek. The smart ass who defies the laws of black cool/ macho by flaunting their love of white music. And sci fi. And comics.