If newspapers are relying on paywalls to survive, then they really are the equivalent of walking dead men. Even more so than those of us who have watched this saga from the beginning realized. As this article points out, there’s no point to putting the papers online if only subscribers can see them or link …
From the always-interesting forgetomori site: […] But today I discovered at long last that there are natural lasers. This is quite a thing, as even if you already knew about that, I’ll say it also involves Martians! HG Wells! And Alien Abductions! […] If you’re at all interested in how science and science fiction go …
Ooh… if I had any artistic talent at all, I’d try to duplicate this on my iPod Touch. It just seems too right. 🙂
I thought they were scary enough already!
Hear, hear.
If this sort of thing appeared in a science fiction/fantasy novel, people might just blink and accept the premise. If it appeared in a history text, they’d shake their collective head over it and silently thank the deity of their choice that no one is that stupid anymore. But if it’s spouted by a modern-day …
The text I quoted above got me thinking. As many of my readers know, I’ve been working on an extremely difficult programming problem for the last seven years. Many really smart people have attempted to solve it before me, and so far, none have succeeded; many others, equally intelligent, believe that it simply can’t be …
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I’ve long been fascinated with human attempts at protecting bird food from squirrels, ever since seeing one at my grandparents’ place in Pennsylvania. Most such attempts are spectacular failures (as was theirs), though I’ve posted before about a few that work. Apparently there’s an extremely funny book on the subject now too. Maybe it will …
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Our new house has no air conditioning, and no ductwork that air conditioning could be vented through. We’ve bought a small air conditioner, but it’s only good for one room (we put it in the bedroom). We spend most of our time in the basement office during daylight hours (where it’s naturally cooler), but in …
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A whole five megabytes, and I’ve been inside bathrooms that weren’t much larger than that thing. There’s no mention of price, but I’m betting it’s in the six- or seven-figure range. (I didn’t click through to find out; the details of computer artifacts from before I was born just aren’t that interesting to me.)