Nobody really cares anymore
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The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era.
This looks like another goldmine to those of us interested in the history of science (why should biologists have all the fun?)…
(via Pharyngula)
The complete work of Charles Darwin
This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin’s Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin’s context.
This looks like a goldmine to those of us interested in the history of science…
Since January 16, 2006, over 28,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since October 7, 2006.
Yes, I called a U.S. Senator an idiot, what are you going to do about it?
Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.
Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.
“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.
“It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”
… to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand. Provided the school kid never actually read the Lord of the Rings.
This has to be the most idiotic analogy to come out of this election.
(via Best Seller Lists)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
- STATE OF DENIAL, by Bob Woodward
- CULTURE WARRIOR, by Bill O’Reilly
- I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, by Nora Ephron
- SAVING GRACES, by Elizabeth Edwards
- MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan
CULTURE WARRIOR, by Bill O’Reilly? Who the fcsk are these people and why are there so many of them?
See also:
… Fox, alone among the Big Four networks without a late-night franchise, is now developing a pilot called “This Just In,” from “24” executive producer Joel Surnow, that’s being described as a conservative answer to “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”
a conservative answer to “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” — Too late, it’s been done, It’s called The Colbert Report. 🙂
But seriously, the reason a show like the The Daily Show works so well, is its willngness to mock authority figures from both the left and right and its ability to be irreverent — something a conservative show will be unable to do.
I predict this show will be nothing but an attempt at a Bush hagiography littered with Clinton jokes.
(via dailymail.co.uk)
Here’s a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night. Notice the difference between North and South Korea. I guess there’s a reason the official web site for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is actually hosted from a server in Spain.
These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.
— George W. Bush (President Bush Discusses the Economy and Budget — October 11, 2006 )
(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, October 13, 2006)
1. FIZZLE? SOMETHING EXPLODED, BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT.
There was a seismic event near Kilju, North Korea. The signature was characteristic of an explosion: a sharp leading edge, unlike the release of elastic energy in a tectonic movement. But so far there is no report of airborne radioactivity, which is the most reliable evidence of a test and says the most about what sort of nuclear device it was. North Korea says it was deep underground, but there is typically some venting. If it was a nuclear bomb, it was very small. Bomb freaks in the Pentagon hyperventilate at the thought of a mini-nuke, but a fizzle would be more likely.
Not to mention a mini-nuke would indicate a level of sophistication beyond North Korea’s current nuclear capabilities.
