Do you wanna be 008?

A friend forwarded this to me
Consider a career change...

Jamie Cullum is having his first concert in Asia in Hong Kong in June. Happy to see famous-but-not-quite-pop artist choosing Hong Kong to start. Despite of "unique" general culture, how Hong Kong people see musics definitely needs to change.

15:18 BST (British Summer Time, GMT +1, daylight saving)
Wikipedia is sooo wicked (I know I've said it before, but it really is!!!). I started looking at "Internet", then found some term that I wanted to look at, then another one in that page, and keep following links from pages to pages. Today I ended up with this which explains a particular episode of The Simpsons. I've watched this episode before, but then this entry also explains many trivial features in the cartoon e.g. the Utah teapot that appears, a lot of equations popped up to Homer's mind, etc...

Then this page contains the word "belch", which I didn't know what it meant. I googled it, and found this!!! A site containing tonnes of digital recordings of BURPS!!! Saying I'm strange, weird, disgusting?!?! I'm by far less strange than whoever created this site!!!

Buuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppp, oops.

Talking about in-jokes, if you've watched Monster Inc's and the making of it (including in VCD's or DVD version), it has explained a lot of pictures that appeared within the movie. I reckon there are reasons behind many many subtle things you see in cartoons. I think the reason is that when the artists draw the pictures, they have time to think about the details of each pictures. Rather in films, producers would just want the setup to look good, doesn't care too much what story is behind a painting in a room.

If you look at the equations that appeared in the episode of The Simpson I mentioned, you can see that every equation has a history. Particularly this:

1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12.
* Although a false statement, it appears to be true when evaluated on a typical calculator with 10 digits of precision. If it were true, it would disprove Fermat's Last Theorem, which had just been proved when this show first aired. Cohen generated this "Fermat near-miss" with a computer program.
* That the formula is false is apparent by inspection: the left side is the sum of odd and even numbers, which produces an odd result, but the right side is even.
* Using exact arithmetic, the left side equals 2,541,210,258,614,589,176,288,669,958,142,428,526,657 and the right side equals 2,541,210,259,314,801,410,819,278,649,643,651,567,616.

Fermat's Last Theorem

There are no non-zero integers x, y, and z such that x^n + y^n = z^n where n is an integer greater than 2.

(Note: a^b read "a to the power of b")

Andrew Wiles proved the Fermat's Last Theorem about 10 years ago. But many believe that there exist a much simpler proof to this theorem, because from notes by Fermat, he simply said "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." See here to learn more.