"Participants in the 300 Club wait for a day when the temperature drops to −100°F (-73°C) for more than a few minutes, generally in the winter. The persons first warm up in a sauna heated to 200°F (93°C) for as long as 10 minutes. Then they run naked in the snow to the Ceremonial Pole itself in the −100-degree weather, and run around the Pole. After this, they usually warm themselves back in the sauna again, often with the aid of alcoholic drinks."
- JoeCamel
"Horse ebooks (account name: @Horse_ebooks) is a widely followed spam Twitter account and Internet phenomenon. The account is intended to promote low-quality e-books, but is known for its amusing non sequiturs, an apparent effort to evade spam detection."
- JoeCamel
"This essay, originally published in the Sept 1990 Notices of the AMS, discusses problems of our mathematical education system that often stem from widespread misconceptions by well-meaning people of the process of learning mathematics. The essay also discusses ideas for fixing some of the problems. Most of what I wrote in 1990 remains equally applicable today."
- JoeCamel
"Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed."
- JoeCamel
"The archipelago of Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet throughout the year it has temperatures which belie its position. This is because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude. It makes Lofoten an unexpected delight – its early settlers must have thought they had stumbled across an arctic paradise. Prepare to have your breath taken away."
- JoeCamel
"What happens now? This project moves from the Idea stage to the Review stage. A "LEGO Jury" composed of designers, product managers, and other key team members will examine the idea. We'll build concept models, put them in our test chamber, bake them, and determine if the concept meets our high standards for what it takes to be a LEGO product. This includes factors such as playability, safety, and fit with the LEGO brand. Every potential LEGO product goes through a process like this and must meet the same standards."
- JoeCamel
"Increasingly,
the computers of the very near future will be the private property
of individuals, and this will gradually return to the individual the
power to determine patterns of education. Education will become
more of a private act, and people with good ideas, different ideas,
exciting ideas will no longer be faced with a dilemma where they
either have to ,,sell" their ideas to a conservative bureaucracy or
shelve them. They will be able to offer them in an open marketplace
directly to consumers. There will be new opportunities for
imagination and originality. There might be a renaissance of thinking
about education."
- JoeCamel