Wednesday, November 08, 2000
Atwood wins Booker Prize for Blind Assassin
Monday, September 11, 2000
The Magic 8-Ball
Thursday, September 07, 2000
Shall I compare thee to a bunsen's flame?
Shall I compare thee to a bunsen's flame?
Thou art more lovely and have higher temperature:
Carcinogens do shake your Darling threads of DNA,
And the butter substitute is past it's Best Before Date,
Sometimes too loud the transgenic mouse whines,
and often is his third ear trimmed:
And every electron's glare sometime declines,
by chance or a giant atomic particle accelerator, unrimmed.
But thy eternal plutonium shall not degrade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou glowest;
Nor shall Gore brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in ISDN lines to time thou goest:
So long as men can PCR or HPLC,
So long tests this, and this gives Science to thee.
Monday, August 28, 2000
What Mad Pursuit
- Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit
Koyaanisqatsi
ko-yaa-nis-qa-tsi (from the Hopi Indian language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. Life out of balance.
Saturday, August 26, 2000
Not the Dead Parrot Sketch
WebCollage picked up a fragment (an ear, in fact) of the homepage of William H. Press, one of the authors of Numerical Recipes.
Melmoth's homepage includes a selection of poems from Soundings.
The Hunley, a Confederate submarine that sank a Union ship off Charleston in 1864 and then itself mysteriously sank, has been recovered. Coincidentally, there was some discussion of John Holland on s.c.i. a while ago.
Friday, August 25, 2000
Nuclear Blast Mapper
The Nuclear Blast Mapper lets you map the effect of a nuclear explosion on a location of your choice. Fallout can kill people up to 90 miles from the bomb site, depending on the direction of the wind. A large (25 megaton) bomb exploded in the air would wipe Dublin off the map.
Thursday, August 24, 2000
UNIX history
I now have an entirely unearned blue on Advogato, thanks to all of two people deciding that I deserved to be a Journeyman. I suspect the trust metric isn't quite as stringent as it should be.
Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Faster than a speeding bullet
Wednesday, August 09, 2000
Friday, July 28, 2000
Design Yes, Intelligent No
Tuesday, July 25, 2000
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite
Monday, July 24, 2000
Famous Dead Non-theists
Famous Dead Non-theists has a quote from Isaac Asimov that pretty much sums up my own position:
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was
intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was
better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly
suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."