The title of this post is the title of this post, which is...

Yeah, yeah... I know... "what happened to all the blogging, Mike? Bored already..?" Well I was out of town, and then I got busy with work, and then there's a lot of stuff to do to get ready for the holidays, and OK I'm finished now.

Here's something that is both fun and is NOT a political diatribe. Recursion!

What is recursion? Well, it's something that is recursive. Hehehe...that's a little linguistics joke there. Here's another one, by Andrew Plotkin, and cited in the recursion entry in wikipedia.com: "If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is."

Recursion has also been cited by the patron saint of geek humor. Dilbert once referred to joining TTP, which stands for "The TTP Project".

Anyway, recursion may be a difficult mathematical construct, but it makes for very amusing Web thingies. Here is one. And here is how to make one of these (thanks to Dave Pescovitz (BoingBoing.net), who seems to have found this on Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival). And finally, take a look at this beautiful recursive cruise through some very interesting artwork (hint: pick the "flash" option).