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Thursday, January 01, 2004

Herb Khaury Nice short profile of Herbert Khaury, aka Tiny Tim, via Expecting Rain. 5:51:20 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Long Now Foundation Seminar Friday the 9th Fort Mason. Happy new year to all of you. Let's work on creating the future we and our children want. One post at a time.   Interesting Event coming up: "There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing" by George Dyson (Brother of Esther Dyson sun of Freeman J. Dyson) Check out the interesting articles from him at The Edge: "Darwin Among the Machines; or, The Origins of Artificial Life" "CODE - George Dyson & John Brockman: A Dialogue" "Goldsmith vs. Zimmerman" [mark finnern: Future Salon] 2:21:49 PM  Permalink  comment []

The list of lists for 2003. [More Like This WebLog] 1:12:02 PM  Permalink  comment []

Interview: Skeptic Michael Shermer Answers (Part I). Part II SciScoop has a couple of nice long interviews with Michael Shermer, editor and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, and author of a couple of very interesting books. In the responses there are plenty of the expected ad hominem attacks from those who want to believe, it seems, anything. But there's also a link to CSICOP's review of the Skeptical Environmentalist. 1:11:10 PM  Permalink  comment []

Pulp Fiction by Women With Protofeminist Roots. The Feminist Press is issuing a series of classic pulp fiction written by women, beginning with three delicious examples of the genre. By Dinitia Smith. [New York Times: Arts] 12:46:59 PM  Permalink  comment []

Atheism is the most irrational and illogical religion on the planet [FARK] Alas, the link, as I write, doesn't bring up anything. But two answers for this one: 1) except for all the others and 2) atheism isn't a religion. 12:36:14 PM  Permalink  comment []

One tenth of stars may support life [New Scientist] 12:31:41 PM  Permalink  comment []

ADC looks at best practices for Web development. The Apple Developer Connection's (ADC) Internet Developer site has published a new technical article titled "Web Page Development: Best Practices."... [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-minute Mac news -- around the clock, around the world.] 11:50:02 AM  Permalink  comment []

100 Suns [Scientific American] Here's a nice short review of the new Michael Light book. His Full Moon of a few years ago is a gorgeous compendium of photos from the various missions in the 60s; it's the first time these photos have received the attention they deserve, and is very highly recommended. This collection of photos of early A-tests looks very striking, too. It's also nice to see Philip Morrison writing book reviews, even though they're very short. His long reviews used to be a staple of Scientific American and were always worth a good study. I knew him as a book reviewer long before I knew about his contributions to science. 11:46:54 AM  Permalink  comment []

Top ten stories of 2003 [New Scientist] 11:27:46 AM  Permalink  comment []

Bits of Cover Art. More bizarre paperback covers. [The Cartoonist] I love these old paperback covers. I have a copy of the paperback of Gresham's great Nightmare Alley that's shown on this site, and several others as well. 11:23:23 AM  Permalink  comment []

Alphaville Caution. Godard's Alphaville: here, here and here. [The Cartoonist] 11:21:25 AM  Permalink  comment []

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