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eipimanon Peer-to-Peer, personal web platform: Tonido

You mention a business strategy, so presumably you intend Tonido to be a business. How do you plan to make money?

eipimanon Researchers say mankind is to blame for The Little Ice Age, too

The claim that "mankind" was responsible for the Little Age ignores the fact that one particular man, George Bush, was responsible. Now you know.

eipimanon The nicest math book I own

Another beautiful math book is Visual Complex Analysis, http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needha... Too many modern math texts are utterly alegebraic. VCA embraces geometry to great effect.

eipimanon Why can't we divide by zero?

Suppose 5/0 = infinity. What does it buy you?

At the very least, one would expect that 5/0 = infinity implies that 5 = 0 * infinity, but that is not the case. And if you insist that it is, does 4/0 = infinity then imply that 4 = 0 * infinity, and hence 4 = 5?

eipimanon Study: The Pill Causes Women to Like Different Men

Beer causes me to like different women.