Stolen from allanh

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR ( Read more... )

I don't understand modern marketing ( Read more... )

I finished Season 5 of ST-TNG about three weeks ago. Perhaps the worst cliff hanger ever. Three weeks later, and I haven't bothered watching to see how the story concludes.

My pediatrician died on Friday at age 92 ( Read more... )

For my nerdier friends, I offer the following recent paper from the ACM on the current state of the P = NP question.  What would it mean if P = NP? What would it mean if it doesn't. Will quantum computing destroy public-key cryptography. Though it gets a bit technical in places, it's a surprisingly almost readable paper.

For the romantic minded, I ( Read more... )

From the BBC.  So it's got to be true:

The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologised for using them.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary".

He told the Times newspaper that he ( Read more... )

 I just found a new wonderful web site.  http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/.  Each year they hold a contest for best new optical illusion.  Here is my favorite, which won third prize this year:


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I was horrified until I realized that it was The Onion.


New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens 'It's Gay To Smoke'

As Andrew Sullivan points out, the truly awful thing is that such an advertisement probably would work.

Alas, we don't get cable, so we won't be able to watch it until it appears on Hulu or iTunes.  My husband was interviewed quite extensively for this show. We have no idea how much made it into the final cut.

The Universe : The Hunt for Ringed Planets Airs on Tuesday September 15 09:00 PM

They are breathtaking, lethal and a constant source of ( Read more... )

Just finished Season 4 of ST-TNG.  I guess we won't be seeing Worf any more.