This is the best t-shirt I have ever seen. I wish I’d gotten one of those, instead of the Threadless shirt that arrived today.

From BBC News: Hunger dictates who men fancy.

I already knew that you could put dots in a Gmail address without changing it (i.e. example@gmail.com and ex.amp.le@gmail.com are the same address) but there is more! Yes! Even email sent to example@googlemail.com will have the desired effect. So this is all very nice.

Spent some time on Jumpcut today. It’s a video-editing website, sort of Youtube-plus, and it made Time’s list of the 50 Coolest Websites. Also my cousin works there (the one who makes Opera-elitist comments on this blog) and he’s kind of awesome. Anyway, Jumpcut’s video editing capabilities are impressive, but the website itself is rife with boring home-video nonsense. How to get the crazies to migrate over from Youtube? I think the Jumpcut admins should start offering referrer incentives — i.e. give the popular video blogs a cut if they start using Jumpcut instead of Youtube hosting. How does Jumpcut make money anyway? I don’t see any ads.

Everyone knows by now that you can’t bring liquids on planes, because they might be explosive liquids. It’s also common knowledge that any self-respecting terrorist wouldn’t stash their explosives in a ziploc baggie somewhere on their person, but instead would keep them in small tubes of perfume and chapstick in my backpack. So of course it made perfect sense for Security Woman Lacking Imagination to threaten to confiscate my Jamba Juice chapstick (estimated retail value: $1.25). Failing to anticipate this, I ended up transferring all deadly moisturizer to my backpack and checking up. The upshot of this is that I spent six hours in airports today with my laptop, Ipod, and C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity in a plastic bag I’d begged from a sympathic newsstand clerk.

I’m all for the productive use of my time, so the other day instead of working I calculated that the volume of the core of the earth is approximately 1.67425165 × 10²⁰ cubic meters, which means that about 25 x 10²⁰ people could fit in the core of the earth.

Firefox mouse gestures: I like them.

666 is described as “the Number of the Beast” in Revelations 13:18:

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

It was also the number of U.S. Route 666 before Gov. Richardson took action in 2003. The Devil’s Highway was renamed “because of the fear that the devil controls events along United States route 666.” Also, people kept stealing the road signs. 666 is pretty neat: it can be written as the sum of the first seven prime numbers, and is speculated to have originated in Babylonian mythology. A common interpretation is that 666 is the number of the Antichrist. Unfortunately, the Bible is vague on how to convert it into a name or mailing address, though several translations have been proposed.

If the letters in “Anush Emelianova” are assigned to their corresponding numbers on a phone’s keys, the result is:

2 + 6 + 8 + 7 + 4 + 3 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 6 + 6 + 8 + 2 = 72

72 is the atomic number of hafnium. Clearly, it is necessary to take “half” of 72, which is 36. Egads! The sum of the first 36 numbers is 666!

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + 31 + 32 + 33 + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666

I am the Antichrist. QED.

I am so excited about the launch of Internet Explorer 7. It’s planned as an automatic update for Windows XP, which is perfect, because it means that most of the 85% that use IE currently will probably switch over to a browser that at least attempts to be standards-compatible. Unfortunately, it does mean the spread of Firefox is likely to slow down, as most of its selling points have been aped by IE.

Speaking of Firefox, I can’t understand why there are so few attractive Firefox themes out there. So far, I am making do with Breeze.