This headline sounds like something I might make up:

Scientists To Tape Magnets To Crocodiles To Confuse Them

(This link is to the HuffPost summary. The actual headline is less fun.)

This is depressing: Shiller: House Prices Still Way Too High

I'm suspect of a one variable index. House sizes have been increasing for one thing. That has to factor in as well. Not to say the bottom has been reached, but I don't know that national median is going fall as much as the chart shows.

Ya gotta love crazy math people....

Hilarious crypto-gibberish

Bruce Schneier's irregular "Doghouse" column features security companies making risible, redonkulous claims about their technology; the latest gang is from Singularics, who sound like unbalanced saucer-cultists who've spent too much time near the math department of their college:

Our advances in Prime Number Theory have led to a new branch of mathematics called Neutronics. Neutronic functions make possible for the first time the ability to analyze regions of mathematics commonly thought to be undefined, such as the point where one is divided by zero. In short, we have developed a new way to analyze the undefined point at the singularity which appears throughout higher mathematics.

This new analytic technique has given us profound insight into the way that prime numbers are distributed throughout the integers. According to RSA's website, there are over 1 billion licensed instances of RSA public-key encryption in use in the world today. Each of these instances of the prime number based RSA algorithm can now be deciphered using Neutronic analysis. Unlike RSA, Neutronic Encryption is not based on two large prime numbers but rather on the Neutronic forces that govern the distribution of the primes themselves. The encryption that results from Singularic's Neutronic public-key algorithm is theoretically impossible to break.

Um... no.

Plus, wtf is up with the name? Are they fans of Jimmy Neutron?

I've never coordinated an office move, but my department has moved twice since I've been here. I second Trudy's suggestion about numbering the rooms and all the stuff.

I second Trudy's suggestion about numbering the rooms and all the stuff.

Use Neutronics!

Mermaid’s Dream Comes True

When she was a child, Nadya Vessey’s legs were amputated below the knee due to illness. One time, another child asked what happened to her legs, and she replied that she was a mermaid.

She couldn’t get the mermaid idea out of her head, so she wrote to the company that created the special effects for the Lord of the Rings movies as well as King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Her request: Will you make me a mermaid tail?

The company, Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, agreed.

Two years later, she now has a fully functioning mermaid tail with an attached suit, making her look like a real mermaid.

Better picture here: Effects shop fulfills amputee's mermaid dream

Timelies all!

Sleepy now...

It's going to be a long night. I just did what msbelle did this morning. Except I'm not terribly congested and don't have a sore throat. Just this tiny drip.

My mother sent me a book called Your Cat's Just Not That Into You. Ha ha. Of course, my cat IS that into me!

Well sara, I hope you don't progress to where I am. I got worse throughout the day, finally went to the dr. They think strep. The fever is causing the naseua and might be caused by the strep, but might also be something I ate. I am shakey and weak when the fever jacks up and I have only kept down 2 pieces of bread all day. Drinking water kinda doesn't work and yet I have to keep at it because I am so dehydrated. I'll be home from work at least one more day.