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Reflections on the Announcement that Osama bin Laden Has Been Located and Killed
I stayed up much later than I intended to, streaming C-SPAN, so I could watch the President announce something historic. For reference, here is the video.
I’m still parsing what I think about this, but I have some initial responses.
- I cannot agree with the President when he says that “justice has been done.” Justice is not and can never be merely ( Read more... )
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Thoughts on SOURCE CODE
I just finished viewing Duncan Jones’s second movie, SOURCE CODE. Stop reading now if you don’t want spoilers.
Overall: enjoyable movie that posits the reality of Many Worlds QM. What I find myself most struck by leaving the theater, though, is that at the end of the movie there is a reality in which Colter Stevens has, essentially, murdered Sean ( Read more... ) -
Tabclosing
- LGBTQ Newsblog Revel & Riot - I like the layout of this news/culture aggregator. Two side by side columns, one for things to celebrate and one for things to decry.
- Manqué - Useful word. I sometimes think of myself as a physicist manqué.
- A blog post on botanical “fascination”
- “Omega and why Math has no TOEs” - Article by Gregory Chaitin on his ( Read more... )
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I Have No Idea If This Is Real
And I don’t care. It’s supposedly the intro to a Russian knockoff of MST3K, and I love it unreservedly.
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Kickstarter Documentary on Texas State Board of Education
I’ve written before about how the Texas State Board of Education has been hijacked by ideologue fundamentalist Christians, and how this has repercussions for the entire country. (See here and here.) There is currently a project on Kickstarter to fund the editing of a documentary about creationist Don McLeroy, longtime chair of the TSBOE. In the ( Read more... ) -
Synesthesia
Director Terri Timely’s short film of blurred sensory boundaries.
Originally published at EugeneFischer.com
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The Continuing Adventures of My Haiku
Remember how I wrote a haiku last week for a contest to have my name given to a character in John Scalzi’s next novel?
I won.
That’ll do, haiku. That’ll do.
Originally published at EugeneFischer.com
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Video Distraction
Work is consuming my days and rehearsal for the sketch show I’m going to be in come February is consuming my nights, leaving me largely offline. To kill some time, please enjoy a favorite cartoon from my childhood, “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.” It’s a collaboration between Chuck Jones (of Looney Tunes fame) and Norton ( Read more... ) -
Repost: My Path to Differential Equations Success
This is not my first blog. There have been others, some euthanized and some abandoned. The ruins of my former blogs are filled with rotten links and gutted by expired hosting. There is, though, an occasional post worth saving. This was originally posted on May 14, 2008.
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Rhawn Joseph Update
Remember Rhawn Joseph, the misogynist creationist crackpot who runs with the wolves? His paper on concubine husbandry for Our Men in Space has just been given a highly credulous writeup by the science and tech news aggregator, Slashdot. Shame on you, Slashdot. I’d encourage others who typically enjoy the site to comment against it being turned ( Read more... )
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