July 2008
17 posts
Re: Cephalopod by Matthew Baldwin →
Now that Congress has approved domestic wire-tapping, no one can prevent the U.S. from becoming a surveillance state. No one, that is, except for cathym17@zipmail.com.
Impact events →
It turns out that asteroid impact events like Tunguska aren’t so rare:
The late Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey came up with an estimate of the rate of Earth impacts, and suggested that an event about the size of the nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima occurs about once a year. Such events would seem to be spectacularly obvious, but they generally go unnoticed for a...
Lost in Space →
Two Italian brothers, incredibly, monitored the radio
transmissions of the US and Soviet space race in the
sixties. It’s a fascinating story of their ingenuity, the
intrigue of the Cold War, and the possibility of a secret,
behind-the-scenes Soviet space program.
They recorded a number of chilling transmissions which they claim
are of lost cosmonauts from the black space program, hushed...
Brier miscommunicated it.
cdent:
And this and Disqus both require that the person doing the comment establish an identity association with some service: it seems you gotta sign up. That’s adequate but not great.
For Disqus, an account is just a convenience, not a requirement. A person can comment through Disqus without an account.
But, I didn’t mean to proffer Disqus (or the others like it) as The Way, just as...
Brier did it.
cdent:
Brier demanded I start a tumblr thingie.
“Now I have a place to put my hand.”
And, incidentally, this is a comment, you weiner.
“Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on, blogging is either the vainest...”
– Steven Frank
