Laziness Toppled Sense
It's stupid because I stood there looking at the subwoofer, thinking to myself, "Now, how should I get this thing out of the box?"
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Free Molly Dowd
<I>The New York Times</I> is ending its TimesSelect program, which charged subscribers $50/year for access to "premium" content, meaning most of their regular columnists. We're going to hear a lot of piffle about how the <I>Times</I> only had about 250,000 subscribers because the content was so widely pirated, but I think that's horse-hockey.
Casting a Genetic Shadow
Mitochondrial DNA research reveals some interesting facts about the Black Death.
The Apprentice
S. L. Price writes about his initiation into the newspaper business. "I was, as everybody there can attest, an instant master—at overwriting, at missing deadlines, at trying to invest my stories with an importance they didn’t deserve. But with another daily paper in town, I had to hustle or lose, and fear of humiliation was only one reason I got better. The fact is, battling on a beat is one of life’s few, clear-cut, post-athletic competitive venues. Each morning, readers open up a newspaper to see who won the game. Each morning, sportswriters open up a newspaper to see which writers won the battle for the best lead, best quotes, best information, best kicker, best assessment of that game. I lost often and won some, too, and spent a bit of each day wondering if I’d be fired."
Is Time Travel Possible?
"Much of the science being done today in many fields will turn out to be wrong. Being wrong is an essential part of investigating the universe."
Probing Suspension Dynamics
Aka the physics of <A HREF="http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=2&too=100&eve=8&dat=8/1/2007… bubbles</A>.
The Sun in Motion
Gary Palmer shows us the Sun as we have never seen it before.
World Clock
Click on the "year" button to indicate the data from the beginning of this year.
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Click on the "month" button to indicate the data from the beginning of this month.
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Click on the "day" button to indicate the data for today.
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The "now" button shows data from a standing start.
Is "entry-level high-end" an oxymoron?
According to some, audiophile nirvana can be reached with only a few hundred dollars. But is "entry-level high-end" an oxymoron?
Arcam Alpha MCD 6-disc CD changer
Think about it for a second: If you could buy a six-disc CD changer that sounded every bit as good and was built just as well as a similarly priced single-disc player, would you be interested?