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It's tough in a court of public opinion, though. Especially when it comes to artistic works of fiction as interpretted by adversarial critics. Some of this is just so much gossip. …

Well! Those certainly are some, eh... curious... statements, aren't they? I never read Cerebus cover-to-cover, because, well, it's freaking huge. I've only perused a couple of volu…

Woah! So wait. Dave Sim is a misogynist? Like, a card-carrying member of the Misogynist party? THE Dave Sim, creator of the Cerebus comic book? How do you kick off an article with …

At least we can rest assured that, in the event of some horrible cataclysm, there will always be plenty of human fossils hanging around somewhere, to preserve humanity's legacy.

http://xkcd.com/664/

Agreed, linking through Stanislaw Ulam turned out to be evermore interesting, even though the Ulam Spriral itself is a good starting point, given its relevance to the field of prog…

It seems strange that there wouldn't be an English word to describe what MSG tastes like. In general, I think MSG simply tastes salty, even though I understand and agree that it do…

The worst offender for all time has to be Oracle. Outside of '01-JAN-1999', I am forever Googling "TO_DATE Oracle" because the string formats for precision time stamps always turn …

It's Science as much as any social science is Science. The only reason we can't transform social sciences into hard sciences is because it would be horrifically cruel and unethical…