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Scott Adams Gives Grads Advice

Wes Phillips Feb 21, 2006 First Published: Feb 21, 2006

Yeah, yeah, I know—it's not cool to dig Dilbert now that it's huge. So sue me. I like Scot Adams' work ethic, the fact that he still corresponds with his readers, and his schtick. I think the strip continues to be the high point of the daily three-panel gag strips. Also, a lot is this is sadly true.

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Who You Callin' Ungrammatical?

Wes Phillips Feb 21, 2006 First Published: Feb 21, 2006

Whom are you calling a pedant? (Two guesses.)

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A History of Brain Transplantaton

Wes Phillips Feb 21, 2006 First Published: Feb 21, 2006

In case that device for perfusing your head doesn't work, there's always transplantation. How has this been kept so quiet?

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Invention I'm Not in a Hurry to Use

Wes Phillips Feb 21, 2006 First Published: Feb 21, 2006

A "device for perfusing an animal head." Wonder if the patent was granted.

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The End of the Line

Wes Phillips Feb 20, 2006 First Published: Feb 20, 2006

Foreign Policy posts a photo essay to accompany "The">http://www.wesjones.com/shipbreakers.htm">"The Shipbreakers".

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Hearing Isn't Believing

Wes Phillips Feb 19, 2006 First Published: Feb 19, 2006

It's starting to seem like Columbia Records had a difficult time with that whole "live recording" as a paradigm for authenticity thing. First, we discovered that Duke Ellington's Live at Newport was faked, now Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom Prison turns out to be less than authentic, too. Is nothing sacred?

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Quantum Lectures

Wes Phillips Feb 19, 2006 First Published: Feb 19, 2006

Hans Berthe gave three lectures on quantum theory to a retirement village near Cornell. Cornell is streaming them on the web for those of us who need an expert interpretation—and who doesn't? As Richard Feynman so famously said, "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

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