Making Light :: The Bloggies :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Thu, 24 May 2007 20:59:24 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 The Bloggies Nominations are now open for the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards (the Bloggies). Anyone can nominate their favorite blog(s). There's a... Nominations are now open for the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards (the Bloggies). Anyone can nominate their favorite blog(s). There's a... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html The Bloggies -- comment #1 from Epacris comment from Epacris on 5.Jan.06 I thought that would get a mention around here. <ahem> (The measure of my envy of your being able to get superscriptish HTML working on this site is possibly a large prime, but nowhere near that large.)

Just adding that you can get your own copy of the 9,152,052-digit text file! And the fairly-official info, with links to useful places, is at www.mersenne.org

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 1:26 AM by Epacris</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109011 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109011 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:26:33 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #2 from Mike comment from Mike on 5.Jan.06 Can I recommend my own weblog to those struggling for a third submission for "best kept secret" or "humor?" Thanks.

http://www.chickensoup4thedamned.com/frames.html

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 8:59 AM by Mike</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109028 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109028 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:59:34 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #3 from Janni comment from Janni on 5.Jan.06 Well, that's quite a bit larger than the prime number my computer has been working on the past year for GIMPS.

Still, having put some months into it so far, I want to know whether 228025029-1 is prime. (The odds being no, very probably not.)

Distributed computing for prime numbers is cool stuff.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 10:43 AM by Janni</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109040 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109040 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:52 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #4 from J Crowley comment from J Crowley on 5.Jan.06 Epacris: You can do it pretty easily with CSS, by just decreasing the size of the text, making it position:relative, and scooting it up a little.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 12:20 PM by J Crowley</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109058 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109058 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:20:58 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #5 from Janni comment from Janni on 5.Jan.06 Oops, should have read more carefully and seen that the superscript HTML wasn't working.

That should have been 2 to the power of 28025029, minus one.

228025029-1 is almost certainly not prime. :-)

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 12:37 PM by Janni</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109064 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109064 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:37:09 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #6 from Matt comment from Matt on 5.Jan.06 I had the poster of an earlier, smaller Mersenne prime on the wall of my office. Along with a magnifying glass-- so it looked like a gray field from a normal distance and a lotta little numbers from close up through the glass. One could verify that the last digit was not 0,2,4,5,6, or 8.

I haven't gotten the posters of more recent primes-- the newer posters are significantly more expensive. Also, it dawned on me, eventually, that the binary form of the prime (a series of 28025029 ones) is more informative.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 2:36 PM by Matt</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109091 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109091 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:36:12 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #7 from Serge comment from Serge on 5.Jan.06 Since this thread has taken a turn toward maths, there's a question I have to ask...

Where the heck is Jonathan vos Post?

There were plenty of times when a thread's subject was definitely within his field of expertise, but he never posted anything. I do hope this doesn't mean something bad happened to him.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 2:57 PM by Serge</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109097 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109097 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:57:56 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #8 from J Crowley comment from J Crowley on 5.Jan.06 Epacris: Yeah, usually sites have much greater restrictions on comment HTML than on actual posts.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 3:01 PM by J Crowley</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109098 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109098 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:01:52 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #9 from J Crowley comment from J Crowley on 5.Jan.06 Er, sorry, I meant Janni. My apologies.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 3:02 PM by J Crowley</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109099 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109099 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:02:36 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #10 from P J Evans comment from P J Evans on 5.Jan.06 There's the 'in-line' form of exponents, where the power is either ^ or ** (depending on what computer language you like to think in).

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 3:05 PM by P J Evans</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109100 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109100 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:05:19 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #11 from Sandy comment from Sandy on 5.Jan.06 Instead of 28025029 1's, may I suggest 1 followed by 7006257 F's?

It soothes the hexadecimal beast within me.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 4:14 PM by Sandy</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109118 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109118 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:14:54 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #12 from Epacris comment from Epacris on 5.Jan.06 A question merging the Bloggies portion with the more-number-related part of the thread: If the Bloggies (NTBCW the Logies = Oz TV awards) are for blogs published during 2005, why is the prize 2006 cents instead of 2005 ones?

J Crowley: Thanks for the advice on superscript, which I'll tuck away to try on my own online places, but as others grok(k)ed, the comment HTML restrictions are tighter. Next time I might remember the 'online' protocol.

]]> <p>Posted January 5, 2006 10:09 PM by Epacris</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109157 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109157 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:09:55 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #13 from Julie L. comment from Julie L. on 6.Jan.06 You'd think there might be some way to color-code digits in large displays, but perhaps there isn't a set of ten hues that remain distinct from one another under conditions of incomplete color vision, bad lighting, gradual photobleaching, and who knows what-all.

]]> <p>Posted January 6, 2006 5:21 AM by Julie L.</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109180 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109180 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:21:30 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #14 from John M. Ford comment from John M. Ford on 6.Jan.06 I have a really big prime number right here, but the margin-script HTML has too small a buffer to hold it.

]]> <p>Posted January 6, 2006 1:49 PM by John M. Ford</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109216 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#109216 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:49:32 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #15 from Carrie S. spots comment spam comment from Carrie S. spots comment spam on 12.Feb.07 Currently #15.

]]> <p>Posted February 12, 2007 9:28 AM by Carrie S. spots comment spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#171418 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#171418 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:28:36 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #16 from John Houghton spots spam comment from John Houghton spots spam on 12.Feb.07 Soon to be invisible spam above this post. Mike's margin-script HTML buffer could no longer contain it.

]]> <p>Posted February 12, 2007 9:34 AM by John Houghton spots spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#171421 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#171421 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:34:42 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #17 from ethan sees more trammy spammy spam comment from ethan sees more trammy spammy spam on 30.Mar.07 Why won't it go away?

]]> <p>Posted March 30, 2007 12:38 AM by ethan sees more trammy spammy spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#178524 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#178524 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:38:48 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #18 from abi sees comment spam comment from abi sees comment spam on 24.May.07 In the version of Cinderella that I first heard, the wicked stepmother casts a bowl of beans and peas into the ashes of the fireplace, and tells Cinderella that she can go to the ball if she picks them all out in time (she lies, of course). Cinderella uses a rhyme to summon the birds of the air to come and help her in this task.

In that spirit, I summon someone to clean up this thread, and use the following cantrip:

Vowels to the left
Consonants to the right
Soon we'll be bereft
Of spam and then, good night.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 5:34 AM by abi sees comment spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188958 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188958 Thu, 24 May 2007 05:34:41 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #19 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 24.May.07 Abi, you're solid gold.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 7:51 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188971 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188971 Thu, 24 May 2007 07:51:03 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #20 from abi comment from abi on 24.May.07 I knew I shouldn't have shaken hands with Midas.

(OK, really, I'm blushing. But I should work on the scansion. All good cantrips scan.)

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:07 AM by abi</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188978 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188978 Thu, 24 May 2007 08:07:23 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #21 from Serge comment from Serge on 24.May.07 abi... Catnip scan? Oh, 'cantrip'.... Nevermind.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:15 AM by Serge</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188980 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188980 Thu, 24 May 2007 08:15:36 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #22 from abi comment from abi on 24.May.07 Serge @21:
Catnip scan?

The TSA plans to introduce this as a supplementary security step for selected passengers (a substantial number of ML posters will probably fit the profile). It'll be just after the ritual fluid and gel purge and just before the metal detectors.

Don't resist. It's for your own security, and we don't want the terrorists to win.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:53 AM by abi</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188987 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#188987 Thu, 24 May 2007 08:53:43 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #23 from Serge comment from Serge on 24.May.07 abi @ 22... It'll be just after the ritual fluid and gel purge

Goodness. Is that what Pamela Anderson goes thru every time she flies?

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 10:24 AM by Serge</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189015 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189015 Thu, 24 May 2007 10:24:57 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #24 from ethan comment from ethan on 24.May.07 abi, does that mean that they have classified information indicating terrorists were planning to make catnip-based explosives? Or were they going to smuggle aboard a bunch of cats, feed them the catnip, and let them loose in the cockpit?

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 12:00 PM by ethan</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189045 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189045 Thu, 24 May 2007 12:00:13 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #25 from abi comment from abi on 24.May.07 ethan,

It means they've been leaving the sniffer dogs alone in rooms with logged-on computers.

As they say in Scotland, gonnae nae dae that.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 12:04 PM by abi</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189046 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189046 Thu, 24 May 2007 12:04:13 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #26 from Tye sees spam comment from Tye sees spam on 24.May.07 Insurance salesperson spam. Oh my.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:55 PM by Tye sees spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189244 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189244 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:55:53 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #27 from Tye sees spam comment from Tye sees spam on 24.May.07 Insurance salesperson spam. Oh my.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:56 PM by Tye sees spam</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189247 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189247 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:56:44 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #28 from tye comment from tye on 24.May.07 Ooops. Sorry.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:58 PM by tye</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189251 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189251 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:58:58 -0500 The Bloggies -- comment #29 from tye comment from tye on 24.May.07 Ooops. Sorry.

]]> <p>Posted May 24, 2007 8:59 PM by tye</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189252 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007147.html#189252 Thu, 24 May 2007 20:59:24 -0500