Why is this hard to understand?
As an Amazon.com employee, enthusiastic Mac user, and life-long lover of Marmite, this story in the Register about “Amazon’s offer of a 12-pot pack of… Read More »Why is this hard to understand?
November 2006
The wettest month on record
From The Seattle Times Puget Sound-area residents spent much of Wednesday bracing for another anticipated snowstorm…. But the predicted snow was interrupted off and on… Read More »The wettest month on record
This is a test. It is only a test. Please ignore this test.
Via Pharyngula: “Get on your blog, link to http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.html, and let’s see how quickly we can saturate the blogosphere.”
Massachusetts drivers may be notoriously bad, but at least they can drive in snow
Back in the north-east, a couple of inches of light snow would barely make the front page of the local section of the Globe. But… Read More »Massachusetts drivers may be notoriously bad, but at least they can drive in snow
"Greetings, pop pickers"
First John Peel, now ‘Fluff’. RIP
Test your tonedeafness
Tim Bray alerted me to a fascinating on-line test of pitch perception, called Test your musical skills in 6 minutes! While working at the music… Read More »Test your tonedeafness
Optimism in its purest form
I just checked in (online) for my flights back to Seattle on Sunday. I’m due to depart Boston at 6:00am and land at IAD (Washington… Read More »Optimism in its purest form
Ouch
BBC FIRST TEST, BRISBANE, DAY TWO (close): Australia 602-9 dec v England 53-3
Pinker rips Harvard on the balance between science and religion
Via Charles and the WNMTC* list comes this forthright piece by Steven Pinker on the subject of Harvard’s Report of the Committee on General Education.… Read More »Pinker rips Harvard on the balance between science and religion
How do people reconcile science with the idea of an afterlife?
In all of the recent brouhaha over theism, atheism, and science (especially evolution), there’s one question which I haven’t seen much discussed. Since I can’t… Read More »How do people reconcile science with the idea of an afterlife?