1999/9/9
How To Be A French Intellectual, a Choose Your Own Adventure book for armchair postmodernists. (Lingua Franca)
A short New Scientist piece about the US Government's experiments to find a cannabis-eradicating biological agent. (Didn't Mao Zedong try something like this with sparrows, resulting in a plague of caterpillars or similar ecological catastrophe?)
Extreme retrocomputing: The Phillips Economic Hydraulic Computer, an all-hydraulic analogue computer designed to simulate income flow in an economy. (via Robot Wisdom)
Researchers discover that the brain operates serially when processing images. (EETimes)