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Wes Phillips
Last Friday's Cephalopod Blogging
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  1 comments
I missed Pharyngula's picture of planktonic octopus paralarva from last Friday. It's not cat-blogging, but it sure is pretty.
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How to Price Merchandise Incorrectly—Just Like the Big Guys
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  1 comments
I'm not an economist, so I can't vouch for how accurate this is, but I loved the wild ride. First it teaches classic B-school pricing philosophy and then it tells you that everything you just learned is wrong. It does seem to explain a lot.
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The Seed Oscars
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  0 comments
Seed rates 2005's science-based movies. It's a tough room.
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What Is It That's You?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  4 comments
If you answered "my consciousness," then what happens if you wake up one day and it's not the same? This is a strange and frightening essay.
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Here's Your Problem
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  0 comments
The biggest problem with many consumer products these days is that the people who make 'em never figured out what they needed to be. That's why I have an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax machine I have never figured out how to send a fax with. I could read the manual I suppose, if I ever figure out which pile of papers it's under.
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It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  0 comments
John Atkinson just sent out a very strange e-mail:
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About Last Night
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  0 comments
Apparently there was some sort of awards ceremony in LA last night, but news of it has only just reached Brooklyn. I stopped caring about the Oscars years ago (pretty much around the time I became a voting member of NARAS and realized how little the Grammies had to do with musical quality), but I never cease to be amazed by how much they seem to matter to other non-film-industry people. Mark Evanier has a nice essay about the post-ceremony media frenzy—and he totally pwns Tom Shales.
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"Motion Denied Because You're an Idiot!"
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  0 comments
I do so love The Smoking Gun.
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Eating Tea With Chopsticks
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  0 comments
In zero-G, doesn't everybody?
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The Aural Equivalent of Trainspotting?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  4 comments
My friend Jeff Wong sends this "Beatles Anomalies List," suggesting that it's the audio analog to other obsessions for geeks who need a life—people like me, in other words.
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