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Calculated happiness

Who knew that math could be so much fun?

It's true that the humor is sophomoric and, yes, derivative. But hey, that's my kind of humor, an inspired combination of Bollywood and Cambridgeshire. Ramanujan would be proud. (Ht to Ezra Klein.)

The medieval helpdesk

New technologies are rarely intuitive. And that's where the helpdesk comes in. Oh, yes, and the manual. This familiar, timeless scene is from the Norwegian TV show Øystein og jeg (hat tip to JoAnne at Cosmic Variance).