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The Metonic cycle is represented by the Antikythera Mechanism.
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Bob Lind Gets Grant
Category: Archaeology
Bob has neither formal qualifications nor any excavation experience.
Posted by Martin R at 1:43 PM • 8 Comments •
July 29, 2008
Hymen Reconstruction and Public Healthcare
Category: NOIBN
Hymen construction is a silly pointless procedure in demand among certain immigrant groups.
Posted by Martin R at 9:35 AM • 3 Comments •
Estonian Chicken Spam Nightmare
Category: Psychedelic
So it's the 80s, Estonia is under Soviet rule, and your job is to direct movie commercials. And when you get the assignment to promote kana-hakkliha (processed chicken meat), you know exactly what it will take to make the...
Posted by Martin R at 2:51 AM • 4 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Birthday Clustering
Category: Children
Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each...
Posted by Martin R at 5:35 PM • 9 Comments •
July 27, 2008
Social Nucleus and Accretionary Matter
Category: China
Once in the early 90s two Stockholm girls went to college to major in Chinese. They became friends: one was half-Chinese, the other had spent part of her childhood in China. They would one day become the Architect and...
Posted by Martin R at 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •
Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing
Category: Gaming
Anybody got a copy of Chaosium's 1980 game-rules booklet Basic Role-Playing? And the 1982 Worlds of Wonder boxed set, specifically the Magic World booklet? I'd love to have a look at them (photocopies or a brief loan would be fine),...
Posted by Martin R at 2:17 AM • 1 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Google as an Emergent AI
Category: Tech
Here's a cool update on the old Programmer Mel story, a tech-nerdy short story by George Dyson on Google as an emergent AI. It's sort of a fantasy-fulfillment tale for the boomers who seem to make up the bulk of...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Mahna Mahna
Category: Humour
When was the last time you saw the Muppets perform "Mahna mahna"?...
Posted by Martin R at 5:50 AM • 17 Comments •
July 24, 2008
Fireweed
Category: Biology
Wind-borne seeds like thistledown that can sprout anywhere.
Posted by Martin R at 3:21 PM • 11 Comments •
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