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Friday, December 7, 2007

One of my favorite comedians

Bill Burr on Letterman - June 2007

Bill Burr Tells Philly The Truth

Bill Burr Live at The DC Improv

Six degrees of separation

I like the ide of this, makes me all warm and fuzzy inside :)

Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one "step" away from each person he or she knows and two "steps" away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is no more than six "steps" away from each person on Earth. Several studies, such as Milgram's small world experiment, have been conducted to empirically measure this connectedness. While the exact number of links between people differs depending on the population measured, it is generally found to be relatively small. Hence, six degrees of separation is somewhat synonymous with the idea of the "small world" phenomenon.

Detractors argue that Milgram's experiment did not demonstrate such a link, and the "six degrees" claim has been decried as an "academic urban myth". (too bad)

Thursday, December 6, 2007

In the end nature always wins

Monster bike is world's heaviest

It’s been dubbed the Led Zeppelin by creator Tilo Nieber, 39, who said: “You don’t get much more heavy metal than this.”

The four-and-a-half tonne machine has driven into the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest motorbike in the world.

It is 17ft 4ins long and 7ft 6ins tall and the engine alone weighs 1.8 tonnes after the armour plating tank cover has been stripped off.

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