Chipping the web – P(11)

Duration of double 5′s: the U.S. national 55 mph speed limit was imposed in 1974 and repealed 21 years later in 1995.

Put this one on my reading list: Algorithms, written by three professors at UC’s Berkeley and San Diego. Covers everything from simple factoring up to quantum computing (thanks, Doug).

Gender differences in grammar caused by estrogen to the brain (thanks, Armchair Anarchist). The way I read this article, the researchers got the opposite result of what they were expecting, then devised an interpretation of those results in terms of their theory.

Also from AA: 20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings.

Technorati search is confusing me:

“No posts link to that URL yet”, so apparently the 264 links from 31 blogs are all in the future.

UPDATE: as I expected, it was a temporary glitch.