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Math with Cohen and Groening
An anonymous reader writes "While
math on The Simpsons and
math on Futurama has been covered by Slashdot before, new background on some of the scientific references is covered in a long transcription of A Futurama Math Conversation with David X Cohen and a short summary of a math club talk to Matt Groening and a number of writers from both shows. Some amusing tidbits are on these pages - for example, when the Simpsons writers contacted NASA for the 40,000th digit of pi, NASA actually sent them a printout of all 40,000 digits."
Really been scraping the bottom of the barrel... Pi is now funny?
What devilry could have caused them to commit such a deed? What vile, underhanded trick could have persuaded them to take such a course? Not only did they vote for Satan Himself and His Terrifying Cadre of Evil Minions, but they were giddy with glee as they put him back in power!
Maybe it was that horrid conservative media who filled their minds with images of purple-fingered Iraqis. Or it was those vile priests who told them abortion is wrong AND bad public policy. Or maybe it was that filthy lucre that corrupted their souls and caused them to vote for tax breaks.
The shame you must feel!
But hark! In yonder silver screen is a beacon of hope! Clothed in utter humility itself - a sweatshop-animated, 22-minute television sitcom - is God's own shining truth, come to brighten our homes with its glory! It WILL prevail!
Ahem.
You know you're on Slashdot when this kind of trash is valued.
Or maybe you're on democraticunderground.com. Whatever. I'm nearly sick of this place, just from snarky, flamebait comments like that.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
It's just that the conservatives are a _much_ bigger target, in terms of hipocrisy particularly.
I mean, Clinton lied about a few blow jobs, whereas Bush lied about the reasons he went to war.
What a long, strange trip it's been.