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Yearly Archives: 2003
Parallel Universes
I’m not sure how big a grain of salt to take this with, but Scientific American has just published an overview article on the state of the art of parallel universes.
Syria, you’re next?
An article in The Star says Bush won’t let anyone have dictators, and he personally will rout them out.
It’s basically, “Syria, you’re next,” and I love the quote:
In meetings in Damascus with British and Saudi envoys, Syrian President Bashar Assad again denied all U.S. accusations.
“For the president of the United States to come on television and say that Syria must co-operate, my question is who, in the name of heaven, does he think he is?” asked Syrian political analyst Mohammed Aziz Shukri. “Is he the god of this Earth?”
Ahem. I believe that is indeed the question.
See the Pretty Sproutses
I’m glad I waited to put up photos of our sprouting seedlings. Three days later, they’re reaching for the sky! Only a few of the seeds haven’t burst forth from our hi-tech Seedling Growth Pods ™ (T.P. tubes to the uninitiated) .
Apologies for the blurry close-ups. It’s hard to see ‘em when the dirt pieces are bigger than they are. ;)
Wow.
If you haven’t seen the new Honda Accord commercial yet, you have to see it to believe it. Note that only one small part of the process was computer-generated; it took 606 takes to get it right. That must have been so much fun to make…