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Anonymous tombstone:

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

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“Grandpa” Al Lewis

Some of the most talented people I knew died broke in a furnished room.

—WBAI-FM radio program sometime in the late 1980s

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Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad; pg. 29 (mass market paper edition):

Order is the enemy of Chaos. But the enemy of Order is also the enemy of Chaos.

Gregor Markowitz
–The Theory of Social Entropy

Another One For Wil Wheaton

It gives a whole new meaning to his term, WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER:

I Brought the Cast of My Penis Out to Play

Prior coverage and mentions of Wil Wheaton in this blog:
Scotty, Belay That Order. The Kid’s All Right!
This Is For Wil Wheaton
Scotty, I Need More Power! This Kid Won’t Die!

Corruption Test Involving Comics

Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

Don’t read the explanatory text. Just read the panels. How many did you laugh at?

Oh I am filth!

Reference: Future Blogophony

66 Ways to Build Links in 2007

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I Weep For Ken Kutaragi

Does anybody want a PS3?

Prior relevant coverage in this blog:
Ken Kutaragi: The World WILL Catch Up To Your Genius!
Wii Woorld
Mother Of Mercy, Is This The End Of Ken Kutaragi?
Wii Wiinniing Buuzz Baattle
PlayStation 3 Mania

Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Math!

Mathematical Thinking in Physics

Many of the articles on this Web site are versions of the Fermi Problem described in the first section. Others are essays – some short, some long. Some are merely attempts to come to terms with basic concepts, such as the ‘size’ of the speed of light or the number ‘one trillion’. Others discuss more advanced concepts. The last few essays involve college-level physics, and might be difficult for those who have not taken at least some introductory courses. The essays discussing the gravitational field energy density and the thermodynamic four-vector are speculative and invite comments from you, the reader.

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I will hardly understand most of it, but my dendrites will be greatly massaged!

Tesla: Down On Your Knees In Reverence!

The Electric Wizard

On the 150th anniversary of the birth of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, Mark Pilkington explores the enigma of the man who lit up the world.

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Homework: Tesla – Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney

Oh Brave New World That Has Such People In It…

Dazzling new images reveal the ‘impossible’ on the Sun

Hinode has sent back startling images of the Sun’s outer limb. Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes […].

“These structures are 8000 kilometres long and some extend twice that high,” says SOT science team member Alan Title from Lockheed Martin Advance Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, US. “Their speed is such that if you sat on the end of one, which I don’t recommend, you could travel from Washington, DC, to San Francisco in about four minutes. These things are really moving.”

Crashing loops
Another surprise sighting is that of giant magnetic field loops crashing down onto the Sun’s surface as if they were collapsing from exhaustion, a finding that Golub describes as “impossible”. Previously, scientists thought they should emerge from the Sun and continue blowing out into space.

“Almost every day, we look at the data and we say – what the heck was that?” says Golub, a member of the XRT science team.

See the QuickTime video.