rglovejoy

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Searching for ZAP's fleet of no-show green cars(wired.com)
2 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|1 comments
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If your GPS device told you to drive off a cliff, would you do it?(online.wsj.com)
11 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|12 comments
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Why Spider Silk is so Strong(web.mit.edu)
4 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|0 comments
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Book Review: Gusher of Lies by Robert Bryce(nytimes.com)
3 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|2 comments
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
Like Dianetics. Oh, wait, L. Ron was trying to be serious in that one.
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
Inherit the Stars by James Hogan Like a lot of people, by the time I got to the end of the book, I just wanted to fling it across the room. -----Here be spoilers-------- The entire premise of the book is that humans evolved on a planet call
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Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90(nytimes.com)
5 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
You must be referring to "Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd" performed by the London Philharmonic. It's pretty good, but there was an even better disc that came out around 1989, "Objects of Fantasy: The Music of Pink Floyd" performed by Da
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
The bongos were only a small part of what made him Feynman. When The Feynman Lectures were published, a picture of him playing the bongos appeared in the preface. Feynman was a bit mystified as to why they used that picture, but he let i
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Xkcd: Mythbusters and Zombie Feynman(xkcd.com)
24 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|36 comments
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Vanguard 1 turns 50(eurekalert.org)
3 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
AutoCAD also uses Lisp.
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The Hydrogen Economy: Savior of Humanity or Economic Black Hole?(skeptic.com)
1 points by rglovejoy 19y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
Will they be running Quaero on a fifth-generation computer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
I think that the guys who were able to hack into cardiac pacemakers would be a lot more dangerous: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/...
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
MIT is a private institution. It's their endowment, so they should be able to support Canadians or anyone else if they choose to.
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
It would have been nice for the Institute to have done this when I was an undergrad there. I only wish that it didn't have to require a Senate investigation to get them to open up the pursestrings.
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
The author probably did read Paul's essay, but it looks like most of it went over his head and flew right out of the window. The comment manvsmachine cited, "The relationship of C and Unix is unclear to me", just proves that he is a silly
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
So, were HTML character codes disabled here?
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by rglovejoy 19y ago
Es posible: ¡Feliz año nuevo!