Here’s what science fiction great Orson Scott Card had to say about Serenity
I walked into this movie reasonably aware of the advance word-of-mouth (though not obsessively so) and only as the film actually began this afternoon, the day of its premier, did it occur to me that I had not heard a whisper of a [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2005 by pwyll
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Every once in a while someone makes a commercial worth watching. Frequently that someone sells beer. This humorous and creative Carlton Draught ad has its own website, and is well worth the visit.
Posted on October 9th, 2005 by pwyll
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My daughter is in the third grade, and I am the one who helps her with her math homework. As a result I get to see some long familiar math through beginner’s eyes.
From my point of view, subtraction is simply a device used only until it can be disposed of. Once negative numbers [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2005 by pwyll
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I have been reading The Night Is Large, the collected essays of Martin Gardner. I will not review the book, which is outstanding, but instead offer this delicious excerpt.
John Cage’s 4′33″is a piano composition that calls for four minutes and thirty-three seconds of total silence as the player sits frozen on the piano stool. [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2005 by pwyll
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I get a lot of stock tip spam. Some enterprising person with the same problem decided to model the results of buying 1000 shares of every stock offered. Did he (hypothetically) make a bundle? Find out here.
Posted on October 5th, 2005 by pwyll
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Genetic research also offends egalitarians. They fear that the rich will benefit first or that money for research will come from social programs.
Virginia Postrel in Forbes
Of course the rich will benefit first. They can afford to pay through the nose, making it possible for expensive new technologies to enter the market. Economies of scale eventually [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2005 by pwyll
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