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Monday, September 16, 2002
Yeah, I know it's been a week, but no, I don't intend to let this thing sit and rot as long as I did last time. My goal (at this point, anyway) is to sit down and slog through 56k dialup speeds long enough to cull some interesting material for you faithful readers at least once or twice a week. I'm sorry, but after giving up DSL that was more responsive than a roomful of daytraders, that's probably all I can manage. Call me spoiled if it'll make you feel better.
Linky, linky: There's an interesting column and reader response thing going on over at Salon about how Gen-X'ers feel about Boomers, mostly focusing on how the previous generation's actions and attitudes changed how following generations feel about love and sex. (Also interesting that some of the readers' letters were better written than the columnist's.) Elsewhere, those wacky scientists managed to break the speed of light without violating Einstein's Relativity and there's an interesting discussion going on over at Kuro5hin about the justification (or lack of it) for going to war with Iraq. Oh, and the earth gained a third moon recently.
Monday, September 9, 2002
If you'd like a little more in the way of entertainment (which we all could probably use, given the egregiously tactless nonstop rehash of last September 11ths tragedy happening on every TV channel right now), here's a fun bit of science: it turns out that geckos make use of Van der Waals forces to stick to surfaces, not a biochemical adhesive, as scientists once thought. Neat, eh?
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