Via: A Gentleman's C: Apparently this was unexpected.
Finalist dies at world sauna championships.

Russian Vladimir Ladyzhenskiy died Saturday after taking part in the final of a competition in which contestants are required to withstand rising temperatures for as long as possible.

Finnish finalist Timo Kaukonen was also taken to hospital for treatment, organizer Ossi Arvela said in a statement posted on the event's website.

Comment pouvons-nous toujours subventionner les ecoles confessionnelles au Quebec? Il suffit de regarder les absurdites generees en Angleterre par un systeme public tres semblable a celui du Quebec, sauf pour la proportion beaucoup plus grande d'ecoles confessionnelles.

Via: slashdot.org: Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound

Well take a look at the millions in fake, and thus illegal, bids demonstrated below and tell us just how any of this manipulation is "providing liquidity" - the second the patterns break, the algos responsible for the churn pattern disappear, thus eliminating numerous levels of so called bid liquidity below the NBBO: break enough patterns and you have another flash crash as the market once again goes bidless.

Allez voir les algos a l'action. Pas mal les petits graphes. En voici un exemple:

07-29-10
BATS "Flag Repeater". 15,000 quotes in 11 seconds, dropping the ASK price 1 penny each quote from $9.36 to $8.58 and back up again.

On est quand meme un peu loin du principe d'acheter des parts d'une compagnie pour en devenir actionnaire

Le making-of.

Slow motion soda explosion from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

Interessant a regarder non pas pour la vulgarisation du probleme, mais plutot l'histoire derriere le travail de Wiles et les interactions avec les autres mathematiciens.

First of all, that's five standard deviations off of the expected value. On a practical level, that means that of all the variability in every single measurement made of the size of the proton in the history of time, this new measurement is so damned far off that the guys doing the experiment didn't even notice it the first two times (2003 and 2007) they measured it.

Anyhow, something is amiss. Most likely, this is not the sign that everything we know is wrong, or that the powerful equations of quantum mechanics are all wrong (as evidenced by the 20th century). Rather, this is probably a sign of some new interaction between muons and protons we haven't seen before. That means new particles, and new physics. Wahoo!

Note: I can't link you directly to the report from Nature, because you can't access the information because we live in a stupid, fucked up world.

Hehe. J'avoue.

Vezi mai multe din Funny pe 220.ro

photo.net: Nikon Coolscan 5000 Slide Scanner

Au moment ou j'ecris ca, la compagnie a fait 1718.00$ pour vendre l'equivaleur de 150.00$ (i.e. 150 bidous). Et ce n'est pas fini! C'est que chaque click d'usager donne un dollar a la compagnie (en supposant que ce ne soit pas de l'argent prealablement gagne... lol) et monte le prix d'une cenne. Nous verrons jusqu'ou l'insanite des usagers peut aller.

Super pack 150 bidous

P.S. Maintenant 1748.00$

Edit: Et evidemment, plus il y a de bidous en circulation, plus le monde est pret a clicker.... donc la compagnie va faire encore plus d'argent dans le futur!

Edit: Wow, finalement bidou.ca a fait: 2666.00$ - 150.00$ + 26.67$ = 2542.67$ !!!! J'ai un seul mot qui me vient a l'esprit.... Ca-le-ve-re.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary, The Blues Brothers continue on their “mission from Gahd,” but now with Vatican approval.

Hahaha, ils sont tellement ridicules. Mais disons-le, c'est probablement la chose la plus sensee sortie du Vatican depuis quelques annees.... heu... siecles

Via: digg.com: Keanu Reeves Gives £50 Million to Unsung Heroes of 'Matrix'

Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.

Keanu is expected to make a total of £70 million from the films, thanks to a deal which guarantees him a 15 per cent profit-share, so he will still net around £20 million. Asked about his prodigious act of generosity, the actor said he already had enough cash. "Money is the last thing I think about. I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries," he declared.

And it's not the first time the Beirut-born star has shown his jaw-dropping benevolence. While shooting the films in Australia he amazed the team of stuntmen by giving them each a £6,000 Harley Davidson motorcycle. And the actor, whose sister has leukaemia, has also channelled millions into cancer research.

His gift to the Matrix series' 29 behind-the-scenes whiz-kids will see each of them receiving £1.75 million.

On dira ce qu'on voudra, on a beau avoir des tonnes d'argent, donner £50,000,000.00 sur £70,000,000.00 est absolument incroyable. On lui souhaite de ne jamais manquer d'argent par la suite! Et que dire des personnes qui recoivent.... une legere augmentation de salaire peut-etre?

This week Wal-Mart received final approval to offer retail banking services in Canada. Their official launch is on June 15, and they've been tight lipped about it so far. I'm hoping that we will see something like the convenient online access provided by Ally along with savings rates to match. Maybe this will finally light a fire under the likes of ING Direct and PC Financial whose rates have been very sadly lacking of late.

Une autre chose a surveiller sera de savoir si ca sera disponible pour les residents du Quebec. Plusieurs banques ne sont pas enregistrees au Quebec a cause des regles differentes imposees par l'AMF.

Via: canadiancapitalist.com: This and That: Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford and more…

Difficile de ne pas rire

KNUCKLES | BLAKE - WHAT I LIKE from Paul Bryan on Vimeo.

Explanation: A new comet is brightening and is now expected to become visible to the unaided eye later this month. C/2009 R1 (McNaught) is already showing an impressive tail and is currently visible through binoculars. The above image, taken yesterday from the Altamira Observatory in the Canary Islands and spanning about five degrees, shows an impressive green coma and a long ion tail in front of distant star trails. Although predicting the brightness of comets is notoriously difficult, current estimates place Comet McNaught as becoming visible to unaided northern hemisphere observers in late June, before sunrise, and in early July, after sunset. Discovered by Robert McNaught last year, the sun-orbiting iceberg will pass the Earth next week and will continue to melt and shed debris as it closes in on the Sun until early July. After reaching about half of the Earth-Sun distance from the Sun, the comet should fade rapidly as it then heads out of the inner Solar System.

Je ne sais pas si ce upload sur youtube est legal ou non. Mais si vous regardez quelquechose a la TV qui n'est que partiellement interessant, prenez plutot le temps de regarder ce film documentaire. Il vaut la peine d'etre regarder d'un bout a l'autre.

J'aime bien la fin

J'adore le choix d'exposition de cette photo.

Impressionnant! C'est fou ce que le monde reussit a faire avec des Legos.

thechive.com: Photo of the Day

Wow, parlez-moi d'une publicite retroactivement ironique.

Kevin’s wife just left him. She left one thing – her wedding dress (25 Photos)

And just as Hendry sees deflation first, then hyperinflation (and watch this clip for some more brilliant insight), so it shall be.

Morningstar Canada's direct ownership data reveal that the number of Canadian ETFs held by mutual funds has been growing recently, analyst Esko Mickels said. "By far the most popular Canadian ETF among mutual funds is iShares S&P/TSX 60 ETF."

Autrement dit, chargeons des frais demesures sur des produits de competiteurs avec des frais minimes. Cut the middle man!!! >:-)

Rendez-vous au moins a 1:00... et meme 2:00... incroyable.

P.S. Assez incroyable que les gifs animes soient encore utilises en 2010

Via: digg.com: After a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.

That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

Fantastique a l'ecran. J'aimerais bien voir ca en personne.