July 1, 2008
June 27, 2008
What books have changed your life? [LifeHacker]
A great users’ poll, best understood in earnest rather than in our usual cynicism.
I’ll post my own list here at some point, but the comments’ books (as well as those in the Cool Tools link) are not half bad.
June 17, 2008
Where do we come from? Where are we going?
Science tackles the first question: recent studies indicate that the amino acids and nucleic acids we see in every single living creature on earth may have come from outer space via meteorites.
One study found amino acids; another, precursor compounds to the nucleic acids.
May 31, 2008
Die Hard … the 80s vengeance!
Just before turning my craptastic DVR over to Comcast, I turned on the original “Die Hard.” The anachronisms made it impossible to not laugh.
1. John McClane has a gun on a plane.
2. He lights up a cigarette in the airport terminal.
3. His wife works for the rapidly expanding “Nakatomi” corporation.
4. Pilot-style wireframe glasses. I used to have those.
5. The front desk exhibits Das Blinkenlights.
6. Big hair on all the ladies.
7. Alan Rickman refers to Arafat buying suits at a particular tailor.
8. The “CEO Workstation” has a monochrome monitor and requests the user to enter the “Ultra Cypher.”
9. The sweet handphone in the limo.
10. Reginald VelJohnson, aka Carl Winslow.
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