Happy Holidays (It's All Relative)

We'll leave you with a chuckle from xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language:



Happy Holidays, whichever ones you celebrate!

Antikythera: The Google Calendar of Ancient Greece

Via Comp Sci's Bill Manaris (via Wired via New Scientist) comes this story of the reconstruction of the Antikythera, which is what it might look like if an ancient Mediterranean Apple improved on the Astrolabe.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, London curator Michael Wright has completed the work of scholars going back to the 1950s to create a functioning replica of this relic from the 2nd Century B.C.E.: