The Null Device

1999/9/9

How To Be A French Intellectual, a Choose Your Own Adventure book for armchair postmodernists. (Lingua Franca)

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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?)

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Extreme retrocomputing: The Phillips Economic Hydraulic Computer, an all-hydraulic analogue computer designed to simulate income flow in an economy. (via Robot Wisdom)

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19 degrees of separation on the Web. (MSNBC)

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Researchers discover that the brain operates serially when processing images. (EETimes)

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Update: "Bob" is now #1 in the TIME Phonies and Frauds Poll.

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