Databases
I've come to find databases indispensable for all kinds of things. Unfortunately, over the past couple days I've encountered one...
Strangers
Sarah just returned the latest issues of Strangers in Paradise, which she'd borrowed to read. Her returning them got me...
Whee!
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit just south of Gilroy (between 25 and 50 miles south of here), about half an hour...
“The new face of HIV”
According to CNN, a growing number of straight people over 50 are getting HIV. "Women after menopause are not going...
Google bombs
Various friends have pointed me to the notion of Googlewhacking, but I haven't seen much discussion outside of the geek...
Magazine notes
I was relieved this morning to see a submission come in; it's been over two days since the last legitimate...
75 hours of socializing
I spent Monday morning through Thursday afternoon of this past week indoors, at my desk, not seeing anyone. And then...
Hugo ballot up
The Hugo ballot is now online. Remember, votes are due by July 31, 2002. If you have a Hugo PIN,...
Trithemius
Fred also mentioned a 15th- to 16th-century abbot named Johannes Trithemius (much less fictional, as far as I can tell,...
Mandelbrot monk
Fred points me to a lovely page about a 13th-century Benedictine monk whose attempt at mathematically modeling the journey of...
Bits of yesterday
Kendra tells me that LDS (the Mormon church) is growing fast; 40%+ (per year? I forget). Why do people convert,...
Parker on meth
Wil McCarthy has a cute article on "The Physics of Spider-Man" at SF Weekly. He discusses super-strength, wall-crawling, web-swinging, and...