Links
- Against Empathy, by Paul Bloom (Amazon)
- Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below (AP News)
- Marcin Music, Polish teen guitar virtuoso (Instagram)
- 3 lessons from the implosion of the Lincoln Project (CNN)
- Beartown (HBO)
- The Young Pope (HBO)
- El ministerio del tiempo – The Ministry of Time (Wikipedia)
- City in Michigan ranked the No. 1 coolest place in U.S. with lowest cost of living (Michigan Live)
- Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth (Wired)
The ultimate hub, Chieco figured, would be a spaceship. You could leave the spaceship in a smaller vessel, a pod, but you'd have to return to the mother ship to refuel and get food. Then Chieco was shown a prototype iPod, with its stark white plastic front.
The ultimate hub, Chieco figured, would be a spaceship. You could leave the spaceship in a smaller vessel, a pod, but you'd have to return to the mother ship to refuel and get food. Then Chieco was shown a prototype iPod, with its stark white plastic front.
- HAL 9000 – Origin of the name (Wikipedia)
...about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.