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  1. new brain cells on Bone Marrow Can Grow New Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    You know, I read this as "Bone marrow can grow Bush new brain cells". I think it was because of the "Bush" like shape of the word "Bone" and the "Gore" like shape of the word "grow", coupled with way too many election stories of late. Or maybe it is I who need to grow new brain cells.

  2. Re:The metric inch on Soviet Computing Technology? · · Score: 1
    One inch *is* 2.54 centimetres exactly. It used to be 2.5399977 centimentres, but the definition was changed (sometime around 1990, I think).

    Of course, this story may be apocraphyl. I wonder what the consequences of having inches differ by 23nm are, if any.

  3. Re:Quantum computing? on Can Ten Billion Gigs Fit In A Test Tube? · · Score: 1

    You don't really need quantum computing to do this sort of search. With an inverted index, search time can be approximately log time in the amount of stored data. Creating the index is something like log linear. Storing it is something like linear in the amount of stuff to be stored. So, no great worries about searching.