Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-12-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Google counts the worlds books - all 129,864,880 of them.
  (tags: google books statistics library googlebooks)
• Apple not patenting third-party apps. All resolved.
  (tags: apple patents)
• How To Live In A Comic
  (tags: funny comics)
• US using evidence extracted from child soldiers with rape threats.
  (tags: afghanistan cia military obama torture)
• The Mathematics of Minesweeper
  (tags: mathematics algorithms science complexity minesweeper)
• Pope rejects resignation of Dublin bishops who did nothing about child abuse
  (tags: religion catholicism Child_abuse ireland)
• Graphing Briget Jones' weight
  (tags: books diet visualization)

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

If there is any justice there will be police waiting to arrest the Pope the second he lands so that they can question him at length on exactly what he knew, when, and the extent to which he personally covered it up.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/Soon-Will-Be-Invincible-Novel/dp/0375424865

[andrewducker]

Read it when <lj user="erindubitably" lent it to me. Loved the first 2/3, merely liked the final third.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yes, IIRC I felt it flagged a bit at the end.