Bouvard and Pecuchet
Gustave Flaubert

financial ruin threatened

3000
3000 (number)

following 2999 and preceding 3001

a recurring conflict between Fyodor Pavlovich and his eldest son Dmitri Fyodorovich involves the sum of 3000 roubles

Public library

accessible by the general public

Paraprofessional
A to z
Gilles Deleuze
Animal

animalis, meaning "having breath

A

the letter A currently represents six different vowel sounds

Great Vowel Shift
Donkey
African wild ass

this usage is erroneous since the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved the name Equus africanus in Opinion 2027

correct scientific name of the donkey is E. africanus asinus

As beasts of burden and companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia

Working animal
Domestication
B
Bitcoin
Anonymous
Anonymous (group)

The group is also associated with the satirical open wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica

Currency
Efficiency (economics)
Fraud
Money
Satoshi Nakamoto
Silk road

trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction

Silk road marketplace

Characterized as humanitarian, idealist, and criminal, alleged mastermind and founder, Ulbricht, plead not guilty

Memory

process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved

King
Governments
Banks
Bank
Trust
Cryptography

constructing and analyzing protocols that overcome the influence of adversaries

Abstraction
C

C in copyright symbol

Catalog
Volcanos
Flamingo

the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae

Chinese people

Race (hereditary reasons), nationality, citizenship, place of residence (geographical factors), and ancestry (historical and genealogical factors) can be used to define someone as Chinese

List of ethnic groups in China
Map
Colonialist
Victor mclaglen
The informer (film)
Advertising

a category called affective labor

The Informer (1912 film)

Prints of the film survive at the film archive of the Library of Congress

Axel
Axle
Differential (automobile)

a differential couples the drive shaft to half-shafts

In the 20th Century, large assemblies of many differentials were used as analog computers

Analog computer

Analog computers do not suffer

Spokes
Drive shaft

drive shafts frequently incorporate one or more universal joints

Universal joint
Gimbal

rocket engines are generally mounted on a pair of gimbals to allow a single engine to vector thrust about both the pitch and yaw axes

F
Fork bomb
Gustav Metzger
Destruction in Art Symposium

representatives of the counter-cultural underground who were there to speak on the theme of destruction in art

Jodi.org

no human could be in control of such chaos. As graphics exploded across the screen, the viewer gradually realized that what had initially appeared to be a computer glitch was really the work of an irrational, playful, or crazed human

"Wabbit" redirects here

For the disease used in an attempt to exterminate rabbits in Australia, see Myxomatosis.

:(){ :|: & };:

bomb() { bomb | bomb & }; bomb

Infinite loop
Infinite Loop (street)

Infinite Loop is at the southeast corner of De Anza Boulevard and Interstate 280

Jaromil
Execute

a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state

It may have descended from a similar attack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington

Burroughs large systems

in contrast to the COBOL-optimized Medium Systems or the flexible-architecture Small Systems

G
Good
Good and evil

Philosophers inquire into what sorts of things are good

Apple
Apple & Eve

Apple & Eve L.L.C. is a privately held New York-based company specializing in 100 percent juice and organic juice products

Specially marked Apple & Eve Sesame Street products contained a trial code, redeemable online for access to the Sesame Street eBooks bookshelf

Hero

Not to be confused with heroin

Main article: Greek hero cult

Aaron Swartz

he authored RFC 3870, Application/RDF+XML Media Type Registration

In 2002, Swartz had stated that when he died he wanted all the contents of his hard drives made publicly available.

heritage ... is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations

Swartz's Guerilla Open Access Manifesto played a role in prosecutorial decision-making

Some are reported to have been left with the impression

Moral
Moral ABC

In 1947, while promoting his "Moral ABC" at the University of Chicago, Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois

the labels he wrote will not change except when required by government regulations

Open Access
E
I
Palochka

literally "a stick") is a letter of the Cyrillic script

Not to be confused

Icon
Aniconism

a particular case of representation (the absence of images) and taboo (the prohibition of images)

Icon (disambiguation)
ICon: Steve Jobs

Con, as in a con man

Confidence trick

A short con is a fast swindle which takes just minutes

A long or big con is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks and involves a team of swindlers

J
Juxtaposition
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud

Idea/Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, Surface

Those who emphasize the second step "are often pioneers and revolutionaries

This is not a pipe
This is not a love song

The painting is sometimes given as an example of meta message conveyed by paralanguage

Paralanguage

"gasp" and "sigh" redirect here

studies have used the fMRI paradigm to observe brain states brought about by adjustments of paralinguistic information

a sigh is usually represented with the word itself, 'sigh', possibly within asterisks

Asterisk
Capture

only the stronger of two signals near the same FM frequency will be demodulated

M

'm' represents the bilabial consonant

Eternity

Eternity is endless time

L
Library
Fantasy
Scientific Method
Digital book

US Libraries began providing free e-books to the public in 1998

Apple Inc. launched a multi-function device called the iPad[34] and announced agreements with five of the six largest publishers

IPad

Steve Jobs said in a 1983 speech[15] that Apple's strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes

Monk
Postulant

Their rules forbid the use of money

The Bhikkhus are only allowed 4 items (other than their robes): a razor, a needle, an alms bowl and a water strainer.

Into Great Silence
Voice

The tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions

Speech Recognition
N
Nature

The development of technology by the human race has allowed the greater exploitation of natural resources and has helped to alleviate some of the risk from natural hazards

The beautiful is the root of science and the goal of art, the highest possibility that humanity can ever hope to see

Horizontal gene transfer
Human Body Model

model for characterizing the susceptibility of an electronic device to damage from electrostatic discharge

Electrostatic discharge
Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
Solidarity

Solidarity (disambiguation).

A connection between the biological and the social was of principal importance for the idea of solidarity as expressed by the anarchist ideologist Prince Peter Kropotkin

Solidarity is an emerging concept in contemporary philosophy

O
Open
Open (process)
Open (system call)
Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act

OPEN Act was proposed as an alternative to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA

The OPEN draft is backed by Web companies such as Google and Facebook, whereas SOPA and PIPA are backed by the movie and music industries

Rocket docket
P

NATO phonetic

Mind your Ps and Qs

"mind your manners", "mind your language", "be on your best behaviour"

T
Turing Machine
Alan Turing

versity and work on computability

Entscheidungsproblem

asks for an algorithm that takes as input a statement of a first-order logic (possibly with a finite number of axioms beyond the usual axioms of first-order logic) and answers "Yes" or "No" according to whether the statement is universally valid

Least significant bit
Busy beaver
Paper machine
Continuous production
Random access
Self-balancing binary search tree
Card catalog

The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations, but it has been effectively replaced by the online public access catalog

Online public access catalog
Dynix (software)
Integrated library system
Jacques Ranciere

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (2010)

Joseph Jacotot

everything is in everything.

Dignity
R
Elektron SidStation
Depeche Mode
MOS Technology SID

Programmable Sound Generator chip of Commodore's CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore MAX Machine home computers

Robert Yannes

I thought the sound chips on the market, including those in the Atari computers, were primitive and obviously had been designed by people who knew nothing about music.

Commodore 64
S

voiceless postalveolar fricative

Sublime
Sublimation (psychology)

sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior

Sublime (philosophy)
Sublimity (disambiguation)

Kant officially says that there are two forms of the sublime, the mathematical and the dynamical

We call that sublime which is absolutely great

The World as Will and Representation
Teleology

final causes exist in nature

SMSMS (SMS Mediated Sublime)

U
Universalism
Universal (metaphysics)

Ness-Ity-Hood Principle

Hypostatic abstraction
Sortal

The simplest property of a sortal is that it can be counted

Timbuktu
Marco Polo
V

In Roman numerals, the letter 'V' is used to represent the number 5. It was used because it resembled the convention of counting by notches carved in wood, with every fifth notch double-cut to form a 'V'.

Virtual Machine

efficient, isolated duplicate of a real machine

Fabrice Bellard
JavaScript
Brendan Eich
Sandbox (software development)
Glulx
Full virtualization
Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements
Trap (computing)
Simple Network Management Protocol
Protocol data unit
Hardware-assisted virtualization
Tiny C Compiler

Although the TCC compiler itself is exceptionally fast, there is an inherent trade off between this size of the compiler and the performance of the code which TCC produces

W

The shift from the digraph (VV) to the distinct ligature (W) is thus gradual

Abecedarium
Walk

only one foot at a time leaves contact with the ground

Scrambling

The first successful attempts at walking robots tended to have six legs

Tomotaka Takahashi

the PF01 uses an accelerometer and other sensors in order to maintain its balance and avoid obstacles, and is capable of balancing on one foot and righting itself from a resting position

As Vladimir Nabokov discussed in his famous lecture series:[16] The greatest literary influence upon Kafka was Flaubert's. Flaubert who loathed pretty-pretty prose would have applauded Kafka's attitude towards his tool.

Bellata
XKCD
Randall Munroe
Fixed width
Xkcd

Based on "Packages", programmers set up programs to automatically find an item for sale on the Internet for $1.00 every day

Drupal's command-line utility Drush has a make-me-a-sandwich command, which requires sudo access

OCD
Y
Yugoslavia
Z
Ray Eames
Zoom
Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond
Powers of Ten

A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

Cosmic View
Philip Morrison

continuing to zoom out to a field of view of 1024 meters, or the size of the observable universe

Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
Cosmic Voyage
IBM