links for 2006-12-28

Everybody loves a math joke Judging by the facebook group “I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!” with 42,000 members, everybody loves a math joke. (tags: mathematics humor geek) 100 things we didn’t know last year Each week, the Magazine chronicles interesting and sometimes downright unexpected facts from …

Tony Blair – Troops should be out of Iraq by 2008

Tony Blair set a 16-month limit for keeping British troops in Iraq yesterday as he admitted for the first time that they would be a “provocation” if they stayed too long. It was British policy to “withdraw progressively” when Iraq’s own security forces were able to take over. Quoting from a statement by Gen George …