Book Reviews
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
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STOPPROT - Protection system to prevent stopping of music: "The new Finnish copyright law forbids circumvention of technical measures, but doesn't draw a line towards what these measures are allowed to do. As a demonstration I've implemented a protection system that lets the music play, but prevents stopping it. If you stop the music, you're breaking the law."
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What is your Eddinton number? "When not doing astrophysics, Eddington was an avid cyclist, taking long tours of England each spring and fall. He kept track of all his routes by tracing them on a large map, and devised a criterion for tracking lifetime cycling progress. This criterion was the largest integer n such that one had cycled at least n miles on n different days." My Eddington number is somewhere between 25 and 30, so I'm really a beginner. Eddington was doing 80-mile tours by bicycle at the age of 61.
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Cool visual illusion -- Comment()
Rotating and disappearing dot: "If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky!"
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Cows make fuel for biogas train: "The world's first biogas-powered passenger train is taking its first passengers between the Swedish cities of Linkoping and Vastervik. And the biogas comes from the entrails of dead cows."
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Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog': "The search giant's Blogger blog-creation tool and BlogSpot hosting service, together the most popular free blogging service on the Web, fell victim this past weekend to the biggest splog attack yet--an assault that led to clogged RSS readers and overflowing in-boxes, and that may have manipulated search engine rankings."
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All-time best 100 novels -- Comment()
Time has published a list of all-time 100 best English-language novels. I don't think all of these should be on this list - although I like science fiction, most of the sf books don't merit their place on the list. And why limit to English? What about Dostojevski? Or Mann? Or Hesse? Or Hamsun? In any case, here are the 33 novels I have read from the list:
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