My fellow Chicago expat jeff_duntemann wrote about Chicago’s Escape from Hell, with references.
I agree completely.
Chicago and the Olympics
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Health Care Protest Sign
Health Care Protest Sign
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
Overdue, but done well
Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” – PM
Via Slashdot.
The technology for linking internet ads to content still has some way to go. When I first saw this it was linked to an ad for Ann Coulter. The thought of how she would react to this news was good for a chuckle.
Turing’s work on math and computers is part of the permanent record of human achievement. It will be recalled as fundamental when all of our current political and social controversies are mere historical curiosities.
Overdue, but done well
Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” – PM
Via Slashdot.
The technology for linking internet ads to content still has some way to go. When I first saw this it was linked to an ad for Ann Coulter. The thought of how she would react to this news was good for a chuckle.
Turing’s work on math and computers is part of the permanent record of human achievement. It will be recalled as fundamental when all of our current political and social controversies are mere historical curiosities.
Politics, Race, and basic Scientific Literacy
A poll was taken on the question:
Do you believe that America and Africa were once part of the same continent?
For the results and some analysis see
Less than meets the eye
Everywhere you can read that Al Franken’s victory in the long drawn-out Minnesota Senate race gives the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority in the Senate. Actually, both liberal hopes and conservative fears are misplaced. I remember the Carter administration. The idea that all 60 Democratic Senators would vote lock-step on any really controversial issue is not science fiction. It is fantasy.
Obama’s re-election strategy :-)>
Using mind control techniques developed on his home planet, Obama has unleashed an army of seductresses in order to eliminate the men who stand in the way of his reelection in 2012. Based on the timing of the Sanford and Ensign affairs, it appears he launched the offensive before the first primary of 2008.
I know this seems like a far-fetched theory, but it will seem a lot more plausible should Huckabee or Pawlenty ever hold the confessional press conference.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 