May 2005

Simon Singh has the gift of scientific gab, the unique ability to explain difficult mathematical and scientific concepts in a manner that is both accessible to the layman and yet still interesting to the expert.

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What made--and makes--Star Wars such a unique series of films is none of the things the movie critic examines. Star Wars is foremost a mythology--a new universe, a new world, and a new metaphysics (the Force) with which all relate, both atheist and believer alike. It is bigger than the sum of its parts. And it will continue to make boatloads of cash independent of whether the movies are actually good or not.

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Dan informed me that http://ad.hominem.org is being filtered by the adblock extension installed on his browser.

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It's a deceptively simple task: how do you capture a string of characters between single or double quotes?

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Anyone who refers to himself as a rogue economist on the cover of their book has some issues, in my opinion.

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The government made me purchase a Nikon D70.

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The girl at the front counter needs to bring up my account before I get started.

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If I read another person use the phrase Ye Olde Whatever...

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I just created twenty-five square JPEG thumbnails, 50 pixels wide, using Adobe Photoshop CS. Rather than small images, each 4-5K tops, I ended up with twenty-five 40-50K images -- a folder nearly 1 MB in size as opposed to 125K.

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A bird took flight from the shoulder of the road on my left, and collided with my windshield right directly in front of me.

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Here's there one chance to finally NOT get a username with numbers after it -- and they pick it with numbers after it!

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I exited the office building for lunch just as a very attractive blonde passed me to enter. She wore a black T-shirt with the words "Due in August" across the chest.

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Daddy! The TV isn't working!

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