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Monday, October 16. US and Iran argue over who actually talks to God. Bush says he's inspired by God, he was chosen by God to be president, blah blah blah. Iran's president is saying the same about himself and that Bush is actually inspired by Satan:. According to the Iranian media, Mr Ahmadinejad said he had inspirational links to God, and went on to say that if you were a true believer, God would show you miracles. Then the Iranian president said Mr Bush was similar to him. Link to the BBC article.
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Sunday, January 7. Black hole by charles burns. I just read Charles Burns' huge graphic novel Black Hole. Literally in one sitting, except for getting a drink of water. I feel like my eyes are going to wither away now, and half the book made me feel like I was tripping along with the characters, but it blew me away. His work might be familiar to you from the covers of The Believer. The story is, like many comics and graphic novels, all about the difficulties of adolescence. View my complete profile.
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Sunday, January 7. I'm reading The Midnight Disease. Largely about the neurobiology of writing and the various kinds of disorders related to writing, everything from extreme writer's block and aphasia (inability to understand words) to hypergraphia (written verbal diarrhea). So in case of drought or whatever and their herd falters, they're all set. If they can get that, why can't I get writer's insurance? Posted by Mason Inman at 11:55 AM. View my complete profile. Quote of the however-long-. Helpful bio...
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Thursday, November 30. How to calculate pi by throwing frozen hotdogs. WikiHow had this funny version of a classic experiment for generating an approximation of pi, the number (3.1417.) that's you get when you divide a circle's circumference by its diameter. But why do that when you can throw hotdogs? All it takes is some kind of long, slender, rigid thing you can throw around. (For all you with potty-minds, that last part is key. You have to be able to throw. Posted by Mason Inman at 10:36 AM. David Pes...
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Thursday, October 26. Newly Discovered Element 118 Helps Chart the Seas of Instability. Here's my latest article, on. Seed 's Web site. Now they've discovered the largest element yet, number 118: In a paper published recently in the journal Physical Review C, a collaboration of Russian and American researchers presents evidence for the as-yet-unnamed element. They say they observed 118 three times over a three-year search. At some point, the forces that are holding the nucleus together are not going to l...
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Monday, January 1. Bat gives Gene Simmons tongue envy. This is one of my favorite juxtapositions ever. Read more about this bat, which has the biggest tongue in the world (relative to its body size), on National Geographic News. Posted by Mason Inman at 7:13 PM. View my complete profile. Quote of the however-long-. I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.". Rocking my iPod of late. See what I'm listening to via. Flicks: Yay or Nay. An in...
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Wednesday, October 11. FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills. This Washington Post article. Lays out a disturbing lack of skill in U.S. security and not just because it hurts their ability to catch the "bad guys," but also because it means they might not have a very good idea of what's going on in Arabic-speaking communities:. The numbers reflect the FBI's continued struggle to attract employees who speak Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and other languages of the Middle East and South Asia. The Bush administration ...
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Saturday, January 6. Everyone's ragging on string theory. From the New Yorker (2007-01-08):. Posted by Mason Inman at 11:47 AM. View my complete profile. Quote of the however-long-. I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.". Â Jonathan Safran Foer getting Buddhist in his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Rocking my iPod of late. See what I'm listening to via. Flicks: Yay or Nay. Yay: In the Mood for Love. Read my review here.
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Wednesday, October 4. Fox transformed disgraced Republican into Democrat. Fox News identified disgraced Republican congressman Robert Foley as a Democrat on several occasions. They even had the caption "Did Dems ignore Foley emails to preserve seat? See the screen shots on Boing Boing. In another news story. On the scandal, Representative Ray LaHood (R-IL yes, really a Republican), said that the houses of government aren't safe for the young. Posted by Mason Inman at 4:03 PM. View my complete profile.
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Friday, February 17. Das experiment and prison torture. I happened to rent Das Experiment. The fictionalized movie version of the famous Stanford prison experiment, just as more photos. Of torture and abuse by U.S. forces at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. In psychologist Philip Zimbardo's experiment, Stanford students were randomly assigned be a "guard" or a "prisoner." Though Das Experiment. He also writes there:. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Our planned two-week investigation into...
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