Chipping the web – recursion
August 30th, 2007 11:14:58 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
A piece of foam that damaged the heat shield on the leading edge of the wing led to the re-entry destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS-107. The recent Endeavour mission also experienced heat shield damage from foam-shedding, but thankfully STS-118 returned safely to Earth.
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Phillip Su on mistakes even Microsofties make with Office products. My favorite question that he gets from non-Microsofties:
“I don’t understand the thing in Excel where you [verb] the [noun] with your [relative/neighbor] using [ctrl/alt/shift][F7/Enter/NumLock]…” It’s a veritable MadLib of questions of the pattern, “In [Microsoft product of choice], how do I [some important thing that should be easy to do but isn't at all obvious]?”
I, too, thought she was taller.
A list of unusual deaths (via Mercola).
The diary of a Microsoft marketing man.
Stop Sitting on the Type Fence (via Reg).
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Hehe… not sure what it is. I guess I don’t act like I’m short, or something.
Off to read about unusual deaths, because what’s life without a morbid streak of humor?
I’m confused. STS-120 isn’t scheduled to launch until October 23, 2007. How could “STS-120 returned safely to Earth.” Are you talking STS-118?
My mistake — I copied the wrong number. Corrected. Thanks for catching my error.
When you get to 110, Sterling, you
might like to do an in-depth blog for the layman on the unique Rule 110 finite state automaton; unique because it is the only 1 byte state automaton which is
a universal machine
Fascinating, Stu. I’ll have to read up on this before I say anything about it, though. I’ve always been intrigued by the game of Life and the patterns it generates. Douglas Hofstadter had a chapter on it in Metamagical Themas, as I recall.
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