IBM finds prime factors of 15
According to a Reuters article, researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have developed an advanced computer which has found...
How to identify a drug lab
Just happened across a CD-ROM for sale that provides a couple hundred photos of street drugs. The advertising on that...
Good old Adobe
Seems Adobe can no longer legally distribute InDesign in the US, because it incorporates third-party software that they didn't license...
Spam addendum
Other best spam of the day has this subject line: "Now that you have seen the Bin Laden tape, show...
Deaths addenda
One source indicates that 60,000 civilians were killed during the London Blitz, from autumn 1940 through May 1941. Haven't been...
None dare call it treason
Interesting article about the U.S. government's historical use of formally charging people with treason. Apparently there are very tough standards...
Really best gift
Even though most spam is pretty obvious these days, I sometimes open up a piece of it just to see...
Numbers of deaths
This has been sitting around in my to-post file for months; a conversation on a mailing list reminded me to...
Rejection
Hee hee. Nao just pointed me to Ursula K. Le Guin's official Web site (why have I never seen this before?),...
Auden on Tolkien
The New York Times has put up a set of articles about LotR, including WH Auden's original reviews of Fellowship...
Another step toward electronic paper
A new display technology: plastic transistors that can (theoretically) be embedded in a flexible plastic matrix. 256 levels of grayscale,...
Slipstream
Turns out that there's an annual anthology series dating back to 1980, reprinting poetry and fiction from the small press,...