Note: I suspect this code does not work.

Found this online, because it was out in public I’m assuming its okay to reshare.

Vector Vector::cross(const Vector *const v, u_int n_vectors)
{
	Vector r(n_vectors+1);
	SquareMatrix m(n_vectors);
	for (u_int i=0; i<r.N; ++i)
	{
		for (u_int j=0; j<r.N; ++j)
		{
			for (u_int k=0; k<m.N; ++k)
			{
				if (j < i)
				{
					m[k][j] = v[k][j];
				}
				else if (j > i)
				{
					m[k][j-1] = v[k][j-1];
				}
			}
		}
		r.X[i] = m.determinant();
	}
	return r;
}

THE GIST: New research suggests that dolphins are second only to humans in smarts. MRI scans indicate that these marine mammals are self-aware. Researchers think dolphins are especially vulnerable to suffering and trauma.

via Discovery News.

Disappointment sometimes seems the natural state of mind for science-fiction fans, but it's because we have so much hope. We raise our hopes again and again, only to suffer crushing disappointment. Here are the 10 worst letdowns of the 2000s.Note: I'm not including the Star Wars prequels here, because the big letdown was The Phantom Menace in 1999. After that, the other two movies couldn't really be letdowns.

via io9.

A History Channel Documentary from the Future: Beatles 30001000 years ago today, the Beatles roamed the earth.

via Cracked.com.

There is also some noise that a new protection agency could stifle innovation. But is an over-the-limit fee really an innovation, or just a cheap trick designed to fool customers into believing a product costs one price when the majority of customers actually pay far more?

via Marketplace From American Public Media.

But Rand, who preached the notion of absolute personal freedom and individualism, was a study in contradictions.Among her acolytes, she did not tolerate dissent.”What she would tell you, basically, is that she was right and you were not thinking properly if you did not agree with her,” Heller says.Rand’s longtime lover and student Nathaniel Branden circulated a list of rules for her followers to absorb. One read: “Ayn Rand, by virtue of her philosophical genius, is the supreme arbiter in any issue pertaining to what is rational or moral.”

via NPR.

A large number of web services are geographically restricted, such as Hulu, Pandora and Spotify. The reasons are usually to do with content licensing restrictions, or because US visitors or visitors from other advanced economies are of a higher value from a monetization perspective. A web application can only guess at the location of a visitor based on an IP address and other information, such as browser language and regional settings.

via On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not In The USA – washingtonpost.com.

A new study finds that popping a multivitamin pill everyday will not prevent cancer or heart disease. NPR’s Allison Aubrey joins me now to explain the study. And Allison, this was a long-term research project involving lots and lots of people. What did the scientists do?

For 50 or 60 years, we have let ourselves believe that as long as we have money we will have food. That is a mistake. If we continue our offenses against the land and the labor by which we are fed, the food supply will decline, and we will have a problem far more complex than the failure of our paper economy. The government will bring forth no food by providing hundreds of billons of dollars to the agribusiness corporations.

via NYTimes.com.

public class CircularIterator implements Iterator {

via Javalobby.