Maszman Speaks!

Still on hia­tus, but you need to see Sep​tem​berEleven​.net, pho­tog­ra­pher Gary Suson’s images of the after­math at Ground Zero. Please com­mit the last image to memory.

I’ve decided to go on hia­tus for a while. Back when (and if) I feel like it.

More nos­tal­gia from me in the {fray}.

Stephen Wol­fram, of Math­e­mat­ica fame has writ­ten a new book, A New Kind of Sci­ence after years of seclu­sion (review here). He’s dis­cov­ered the power of cel­lu­lar automata (as in the game of Life) and thinks it’s key to under­stand­ing real­ity. Wol­fram is a genius, in the old fash­ioned, scary sense, and noth­ing he says about math­e­mat­ics can be dis­missed lightly.

You’ll note, though, the review link is full of neg­a­tive com­ments. It’s far from a fore­gone con­clu­sion that Wol­fram is right, and his lack of peer review is trou­bling for a work of this scope.

From RAIN: Radio And Inter­net Newslet­ter: CARP has been struck down. Inter­net radio sta­tions can con­tinue broad­cast­ing with­out hav­ing to pay exor­bi­tant royalties.

In the spirit of HotOrNot, comes whatsbetter?com, which asks you to indi­cate your pref­er­ence for one odd thing over another. When I went there, it started me with the Pils­bury Dough­boy and Girls in biki­nis (I chose the Doughboy).