Edna O'Brien on Beckett
What a great writer she is—this is like prose crack.
Edsel Turns 50
It's funny, but everybody knows the Edsel was a flop and a wretched car. Everybody that is, except people who own one. I've known four people who were proud Edsel owners and their cars were all great rides.
Edumacate Yourself
"Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
Edward Tufte's New Book
Here's a chapter from Tufte's upcoming Beautiful Evidence. Some of the graphics are pretty blurry on the computer screen, but they look great if you print this out.
EFF Names Names
The EFF lists all of the root kit DRMed Sony BMG titles it can identify and tells you how to spot 'em.
Effin' Fast!
Take an F1 track and race a Fiat, Ferrari 360 Modena, and an F1 car for one lap. Who wins? Nah, let's make it interesting: Give the Fiat a 30-second head start over the Ferrari and don't even start the F1 until one minute and twenty-one seconds have passed. Yeah, same result, but a lot more interesting this way.
Eightfold Monomania
My buddy Jeff Wong and I were talking about the collector's mentality on one of our bike rides recently. Jeff observed that there are two major strategies for collectors who have it bad: Try to collect everything and the other is mine a tightly defined subgenre.
Einstein and the Old One
Mark Mortimer's review of Einstein and the Old One makes an interesting point—just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.
Einstein On the Beach—In Lego
Via wonkosane.
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Einstein Was Wrong
No, not when he said that there was a cosmological constant in his expanding universe calculation, but later when he took it back.