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31 July 2002 ::
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You look like an angel. Welcome to earth.
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Son of updated information: My wife is out of the hospital. Regular posting will now resume.
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While I was busy, A Miracle of Science was updated.
Benjamin meets Mars, and fires a really cool gun.
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Sun Myung Moon, the addled leader of the Moonies,
attempted to place
an advertisement in several American newspapers but was rebuffed by at least two.
My own local Philadelphia Inquirer ran the ad, which the New York Times describes thusly:
If a newspaper's policy requires advertisements to be verifiable and accurate, what does a publisher do when presented with a full-page ad presenting the text of a Christmas Day meeting "in the spirit world" attended by Jesus, Muhammad, Confucius, Buddha, Martin Luther and John Harvard?
According to the ad, which was presented to newspapers around the country this month, these men and hundreds of others in attendance proclaimed their allegiance to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church. At the spirit meeting, the ad said, Jesus hailed Mr. Moon as the Messiah, proclaiming, "You are the Second Coming who inaugurated the Completed Testament Age." Muhammad then led everyone in three cheers of victory.
God didn't attend, but sent a letter Dec. 28 seconding Jesus's remarks. Lenin and other leading communists also sent messages. Lenin said that he was in "unimaginable suffering and agony" for his earthly mistakes, and Stalin added, "We live in the bottom of Hell here."
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There are low-energy
pathways through the Solar System created by the gravitational tug-of-war among the various
objects orbiting the Sun. Spacecraft moving along these pathways would use little or no fuel.
Mars Express coming up!
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25 July 2002 ::
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Clumsy and random's got my name all over it!
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23 July 2002 ::
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After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music
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Updated update: My wife is still in the hospital. Posting to this page will continue to be
sporadic for a few more days.
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Make your own UFO!
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I have a question: Those libertarian idiots who don't want to pay taxes state that
public services can be paid for by a subscription service, or via a pay-as-you-go
system. My question is: How are we to expect these selfsame idiot libertarians to pay
the subscription when they are unwilling to pay taxes? On that note, read this
list of things people who want to abolish taxes
should stop doing right now.
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20 July 2002 ::
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You are no longer merely human. You have become your own, weird demographic.
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Update: My wife is still in the hospital. Posting to this page will continue to be
sporadic for the next couple of days.
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A new
light-emitting polymer
allows the creation of flexible televisions and Dick Tracy two-way wristwatches!
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16 July 2002 ::
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And the unholy image of Sean Connery in a sequined jumpsuit
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My wife is in the hospital - and is still being prescribed the warfarin I referred to earlier - so posting to this site is on hold temporarily. Please stand by.
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Argh argh argh. The idiots in the right wing of the Republican party are
attempting to pass a law
to allow churches to use tax-exempt moneys to fund political campaigns. This is a
very bad idea which both goes against the will of the people (the article states that
"the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life found that 70 per cent of respondents said churches should not endorse political candidates")
and is almost certainly a deliberate attack on the wall separating church and state.
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15 July 2002 ::
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The war was won by monkey jesus using his laser eyes
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There's a new page of
A Miracle of Science up today.
It takes place on the Moon! In the Future!
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Enjoy this refreshing little
impression of Dragonball Z in twelve panels.
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I challenge any Republicans in the audience to tell me again why Bush's tax cut for the rich is good for the
nation. And this time try not to lie to me. The debt clock in Manhattan has
started ticking upwards again.
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14 July 2002 ::
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I'll bet you have lymph nodes the size of cats!
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I am currently looking at a pharmacy vial full of
warfarin. Warfarin is a blood thinner
that can be used as rat poison. The warning sheet that
came with the medicine is scary. (Although not as scary as the antibiotic I once took that
included "death" as one of the possible side effects.)
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12 July 2002 ::
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France France Revolution
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11 July 2002 ::
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Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier from Xur and the Kodan Armada.
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There's a new page of
A Miracle of Science up today.
Go read it, or you will be visited at night by three ghosts who will show you your happy past,
your drab present, and your awful, terrible future!
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I can only claim brain damage as the reason that I have not yet put up a link to
Radioactive Fanboys, which is Bernhard Warg's
foray into online comics. Of course, it seems that Bernhard has abandoned it. More's the pity.
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The US Army has a new recruitment tool,
America's Army: Operations, which is a
first-person shooter chock full of guns and teamwork. It has a great price tag (completely free)
and sounds to me like a very clever use of the Army's recruiting budget. The
quote in Wired from Lt. Col.
Wardynski, one of the Army's consultants on the project, makes me think of the plotline of
The Last Starfighter:
"This isn't in the works right now, but in the future, suppose you played extremely well. And you
stayed in the game an extremely long time. You might just get an e-mail seeing if you'd like any
additional information on the Army."
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10 July 2002 ::
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Joanie Loves Trotsky
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The Internet land grab is much like the grab of
radio bandwidth by commercial interests in the early twentieth century.
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9 July 2002 ::
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THIS IS GOD. IF YOU SEE MARGARET, TELL HER THE RESTRAINING ORDER IS STILL IN EFFECT. THANK YOU.
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Aerogels are immensely light substances that act as extremely good insulators and which
have many other properties which are useful to science and industry. Microgravity is
the state in which objects exist while in free fall.
Microgravity aerogels are an experimental
attempt to make clear aerogels that can be used as window insulation.
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And gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here: a
very short history of the Battle of Agincourt.
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8 July 2002 ::
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes hurtling down the highway
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This update of A Miracle of Science brings
the return of the mad scientist Doctor Haas.
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Dr. Takashi Yabe of the Tokyo Institute of Technology is experimenting with
powering airplanes
with ground-based lasers. The article, from the New York Times, also includes
some information regarding progress on the Lightcraft.
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If you ever get the hankering to write fan fiction, cure yourself of it by visiting the
Mary-Sue Generator, which will automatically
show you just how bad fan fiction can get. This is a brilliant little piece of satire.
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5 July 2002 ::
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Just your average, everyday common headless God of Death
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Yes, I will freely admit that Piku Piku Sentaro is distressingly cute. However,
it's distressingly cute and funny.
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New A Miracle of Science. Go read.
Before the pixels melt right off the screen.
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Just after 1 AM, and it is still 88 F outside. There is a
pool of heat near Philadelphia; it is cooler in
pretty much every direction, including a thousand miles to the south.
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4 July 2002 ::
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Just wondering why no one ever answers the emails she carefully crafts upon her Etch-a-Sketch
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3 July 2002 ::
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You just bought yourself some stock in the Whup-Ass Canning Company, boy! --Fred Coppersmith
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The Cartoon Network show Powerpuff Girls did a dead-on parody of manga aimed at children in the episode
"Super Zeroes":
Bubbles: (sarcastically) Ooooh, I’m all tormented! Where’s the magic? Where’s the funny? You need to read...
(Now we see a strip very much in the style of Hello Kitty, drawn in black and white. The panel shows a rabbit in a hood and cape and a sea creature, perhaps a seal, licking a lollipop. The two walk happily along a trail in the park.)
Bubbles: ...“Chiisai Banii-Banii no Kawaii Bouken Monogatari!”
Blossom, Buttercup: In English!
Bubbles: Oh. Sorry. “The Great Funtime Adventures of...Bunny-Bunny and Friend”!
(First panel: the rabbit, Bunny-Bunny, looking alarmed. Its words are in Japanese; Bubbles translates.)
Bubbles: “Waweras! An obstacle is evident!” (A rock in the path, also alarmed.) “Whoa!” (The other creature, Waweras, tripping over it, then both of them speaking.) “Why wasn’t shifting your decision?” (The rock addresses them.) “Being a rock, I am without movement.”
(Bunny-Bunny looks puzzled in the next panel; pan left slightly to show Waweras smiling. Now we see the rabbit lifting the rock.)
Bubbles: “I am filled with solutions!”
(Next panel: the rock being thrown away. It and Bunny-Bunny are smiling. Final: the rock sailing toward Waweras and shouting gleefully.)
Bubbles: “Whee!”
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Glenn has found a clock which is somehow
both restful and unsettling to watch.
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Glenn Juskiewicz
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I rather like the
trailer for The Two
Towers.
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2 July 2002 ::
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It isn't science, it's madness!
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Did you know you can melt metal in your
household microwave? Neither did I. If any of you feels like trying this out, feel free to detail your findings
over in the Discussion area. I'm not sacrificing the microwave to science.
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Mike Ryan
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It's a plot out of a bad spy novel: A
Lucite ball
containing lunar material is given to the government of Honduras as a present in
1973. It vanishes during a nasty series of dictatorships, then shows up in Florida in
1998. The government of the United States is now claiming that the rock isn't legally
owned by its last possessor, and has filed a court case called - and I am not making this
up - "United States v. Lucite ball containing lunar material."
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Glenn Juskiewicz
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1 July 2002 ::
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All beings must get down to the funky-ass sound
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Zod commands you to go forth and view the updated Web comic
A Miracle of Science, which is officially
approved by General Zod!
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The relatively new theory that a cataclysmic reflooding of the plain of the Black Sea
several millennia ago sparked the myth of Noah's Flood
is probably incorrect.
A study of the mud at the bottom of the sea points to continuous connection between the
Black Sea and the Mediterranean for at least the last ten thousand years.
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I can marshal only inchoate rage at the foolishness and holier-than-thou smugness of those opposed to removing
"under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. David Greenberg
marshals logical and historical arguments.
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