LANGUAGE PORN ALERT!!!
You know, I used to think the world was pretty awesome. But today I discovered this, which blows ‘awesome’ right out of the water. It’s a newspaper. A newspaper in a dead language. Gaahhhhhh it makes me so happy I want to chew all my fingers off.
On a related note (i.e., linked from the above site), check this shit out. Wunderground was already my favorite weather site, but now they’re my FAVORITE favorite. Click the ‘Select Language’ link in the sidebar to see all the nifty languages they support. Tagalog. Afrikaans. Cherokee. Omg make out with me.
P.S. In other nerdy news, the discovery of the largest known prime number was announced today. Now that they’ve got banks and banks of computers churning away at these numbers for years at a time, prime-hunting has become a little less of a mathematical endeavor than a computer-sciencey, algorithmical* one. Still, I join one of the professors involved in being “super excited.”
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*I have a way with words.
Tags: math & puzzles