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neener neener

“Professor Michael Bellesiles will be on paid leave from his teaching duties at Emory University during the fall semester.”

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served him right

Some say a woman ought not to try to defend herself with a gun, because her attacker will just take it away from her and shoot her with it. Ha ha ha!

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remember the Beethoven beetle?

Programming tool makes bugs sing. (Link from GirlHacker.) Interesting if it works. There’s a similar idea in Bruce Sterling’s early novel Schismatrix: the control panel of the ship Red Consensus makes a sonic pattern designed to fade from conscious perception … Continue reading

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“a pack, not a herd”

Duncan Frissell: On September 11th, our president could have gone on national TV and said, “I call upon all armed citizens to load their weapons, and go outside to secure their communities against terrorists. Under the emergency powers granted to … Continue reading

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call me primitive

Teresa Nielsen Hayden greets me with: Hi there. Looks like you’re using barfy ol’ Netscape 4.x. I don’t want to seem unkind or rejecting, but it’s a real pain to design a web page that’ll work with Netscape 4. . . . … Continue reading

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next: nucleonic memory

Single-atom bits. (Link from Eric Hall.)

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as I lay awake

I was thinking about telephone area code splits. How do they decide where to draw the line, if there is no ‘natural’ boundary (mountains, water, a highway, a county line)? How would I do it?

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