Primordial Soup's On!
Revisiting Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment about the creation of life on Earth.
Wes Phillips
Oh, Please!
Bagheera tires of Huckleberry's theatrics.
A Big Hunk o' Love
I got wishbone in my pocket
I got a rabbit's foot 'round my wrist
You know I'd have all the things these lucky charms could bring
If you'd give me just one sweet kiss, rowr, rowr, rowr
Baby, I ain't askin' much of you
Just a big-a big-a hunk o' love will do.
I got a rabbit's foot 'round my wrist
You know I'd have all the things these lucky charms could bring
If you'd give me just one sweet kiss, rowr, rowr, rowr
Baby, I ain't askin' much of you
Just a big-a big-a hunk o' love will do.
Audio Porn
John Atkinson sends along this link to The Vintage Knob, which shows the naughty bits of some classic '70s gear.
The Red Hot Chili Pipers
More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
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RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix
BBspot claims to have obtained the super-duper-secretest-ever legal decision flowchart used by the RIAA. Everything now makes so much sense!
Yet Another Reality-Based Review of 300
It's funny, but one of the topics Jeff Wong and I have been discussing, seemingly on a daily basis, has been the endless barrage of negative reviews of 300. I have my misgivings—principally the film's depiction of Hoplite warfare that completely ignores the existence of hoplon armor or Hoplite tactics.
Which Philip K. Dick Story Are We Living Now?
Philip K. Dick, far from being too paranoid to be prophetic, might not have been paranoid enough. After all, even my comments section makes you prove you're not a robot (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and there really are cameras everywhere for our protection (Through a Scanner Darkly). Oh yes, and legislation aimed at protecting us from terror may have invaded our privacy (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said).
A Failure of Intelligence
Somehow, the November issue of Technology Review made it to the top of my Empire State Building pile of unread magazines and I happened upon this fascinating recollection by Freeman Dyson about working for the Operational Research Section during WWII.
Give Me That Ol' Time Aviation
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