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Remember " twisty maze of passages, all alike "?  From Rick Adams we have the origins of XYZZY, i.e., it was a mathematical in-joke.  To quote But Ron Hunsinger believes there is a more meaningful origin to the 'XYZZY' word: "[XYZZY is] taught by math teachers the world around as a mnemonic device to remember how to do cross products. "When I first played Adventure, finding 'xyzzy' in it was like finding an old friend in an unlikely place. Or an inside joke." — Ron Hunsinger "'Cross products?' you ask. "Indeed. The cross product of two three-dimensional vectors is the vector whose length is the area of the parallelogram with the two given vectors as adjacent sides, and direction perpendicular to the plane of that parallelogram. "There is a 'simple' formula for the cross product. If A = B x C, where A, B, and C are the vectors (Ax, Ay, Az), (Bx, By, Bz), and (Cx, Cy, Cz), then: A x   = B y   C z ...

The power of Visualization - used for Good (and never for #Evil) Foursquare Tweets (via Eric Fischer) and  New York Magazine (Picture Telling a Thousand Words Edition) and @puzza007 (view From Williamsburg directly across from 14th street. On the left you can see the W'burg bridge w/ no lights precisely half-way across. Everthing south of (to the left of) the power-plant at 14th street is dark)

From the ever excellent Bonker's World , comes this handy reference chart - Roles in the IT World

God is where the opportunistic believer wants him to be. via Ta-Nehisi Coates The rest of the section goes as follows... Theology is like any other ideology. If the scholars of your ideology profess its great wisdom, despite crucial moral problems; and if you then take up that ideology, in full knowledge of those problems; if you argue that it should be elevated to law of the land; if you assert that it should then be imposed on half the country (not your half), you are not a bystander to immorality. You are an accomplice.   Amen...

From Stephen Wildish - go there and root around for other such fun stuff... (click to embiggen)

From the ever amazing Paul Crowley , we have this amazing Margin Bargraph (click to embiggen) Note that this is just an image, go to the original for an interactive original ... (Additional Information via Paul)----> To make sense of any of this you must understand the   Electoral College . Red states   are states that went for   McCain in 2008 . Blue states   are states that went for   Obama in 2008 . States in the band with a pale blue background at the top of the diagram have been called by the networks for Obama. States in the band with a pale red background at the bottom of the diagram have been called by the networks for Romney. States to the left   of the line are   projected to go for Obama . States to the right   of the line are   projected to go for Romney . The further left or right they extend, the further the projected margin of victory. The vertical direction is measured in   electoral votes The thicke...

From the (Demented? Depraved? Diabolical? Definitely brilliant) mind of Jörg Sprave comes the definitive guide to Weaponizing your Office . (Click image below to embiggen. A lot.)