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As mentioned in the link above, Assembly Lines is still in print as a paper book (maybe it's print on demand, but it's a hardcover). I just noticed that Understanding the Apple IIe…

I could be wrong, but I think that Stymie is a closer match for the body than Rockwell, particularly due to the serif on the middle arm of capital E (and F). I think that Stymie al…

Interesting - the metafilter referenced elsewhere on the thread had a pointer to a paper about D-glutamate vs L-glutamate. Apparently, bacterial fermentation generates a fair amoun…

When I had first heard about this, it was the only anti-MSG argument that sounded even remotely plausible, but it seems that nowadays commercial MSG is made by bacterial fermentati…

Way back in the early nineties, when I was in college, I went to go visit my friend at his school. He had class, so I went to the library to kill a few hours. I dug through the (ra…