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. Such is the life of the cartoonist who…
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 volumes, in particular, the first and last…
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 a bold statement like that, and not…
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 programming.…
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 doesn't precisely taste like a salt. MSG…
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 out to be counter-intuitive, and the…
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 to exert rigid, inflexible rules on…
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. Such is the life of the cartoonist who…
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 volumes, in particular, the first and last…
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 a bold statement like that, and not…
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 programming.…
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 doesn't precisely taste like a salt. MSG…
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 out to be counter-intuitive, and the…
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 to exert rigid, inflexible rules on…