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The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures by Stephen Pile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Heroic-Failures-Official-Handbook/dp/0708819087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236237653&sr=8-1

Definitely recommended reading.

Sorry, but you clearly don't understand how technology works. If it wasnt possible to have a wireless gamecube controller 7 years ago, why should it be possible now?

Comin' to you from #1 Bimini Road, in beautiful downtown Atlantis, where you might see the jellyfish jammin' with the salmon.

Don't step on my funk! Let's go wiggle 'em out, sucka!

Interesting—Amazon.co.uk has no problem restricting certain items from being sold only in the UK. Why hasn't the EU gone after them, if it's truly illegal?

Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life?

You can buy it on DVD from the BBC or from amazon

Also available from your favourite alternative sources

Here's a useful book for you.

Not strictly a maths book, but it's probably the first book I read that got me to REALLY think about things. Onvolves a lot of interesting ideas from other fields (Physics, Computing, Psychology, Physiology and many more) as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234137007&sr=1-1

I opened this post expecting every second person to be recommending Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem'. I never met an UG mathmetician at my college (at a moderately well-known collegiate university) that hadn't read it at some point before admissions interviews.

I am shocked to see it not mentioned even once.

Trotsky and Marx are where all this crap is coming from.

I agree that all sorts of nasty authoritarian ideas have come out of the US in the last decade, but there is a reason why the UK government thinks that ID cards and the National Identity Register are a really fantastically great idea. It has nothing to do with terrorists or US foreign policy, and everything to do with the revolutionary "heroes" that our Government worshipped when they were younger, people who saw nothing wrong with abolishing freedom in order to achieve "social equality".

Here is an excellent but rather radical book on the subject. Don't read it unless you want to have your preconceptions challenged.

Hessler's River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze is a great account of an American journalist living in China in an area to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. He quite clearly articulates how the people of China passively accept things like this. It's a great read, especially if you've even been to the country. Quite often though, the people think their government is correct and efficient, and that you have to accept some inconvenience for a better future for all. As always, the government is a symptom of the people, and vice-versa.

I could be wrong, but aren't region-free DVD players not only easy to come by, but actively encouraged in europe? Every time I've seen one for sale (e.g. take this example from Amazon, something like number 6 in a search for "multi region dvd player" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP5980-Multi-region-capable-Upscaling/dp/B000Q7ZCO6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1233234235&sr=8-4 with the sequence in the first review) there's usually always been information provided to show you how to unlock the firmware. I'd assume that if it was horribly illegal, people like Amazon would take it down for fear of lawsuits...?

Anecdotally, I've also seen lots of DVD players bollocks up (freezes, stuttering, unreasonably long layer transitions) when region codes are enabled, but start working perfectly once the region-free hack has been applied - almost certainly crappy region protection firmware, but to the end user the cause is irrelevant. My parents cheap-ass DVD player even granted you access to the skip buttons during those interminably irritating "You've just bought this legitimate DVD... NOW DON'T BUY ANY PIRATE ONES YOU FILTHY THIEVING SCUM" and "Seeing as you bought this movie, we thought we'd like to remind you that this isn't the only DVD in the world and other films actually exist AND WE FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT THIS WE'RE GOING TO TELL YOU EVERY TIME YOU SETTLE DOWN TO WATCH A FILM" intros. My parents aren't techies, but had the nouse to google the region free sequence for it on their own simply because they wanted a way to skip all that shite.

Plus, buying other-region DVD is similarly easy in the UK (and I assume the rest of europe), if it wasn't I wouldn't buy half as much stuff as I do - there's craploads of stuff that has never been released in region 2 and I don't see why I or anyone else should have some idiotically myopic copyright lobbyist label me a criminal for trying to buy stuff.

Disclaimer: when I was a penniless student, I downloaded all sorts of stuff. Now I have a job, I've not downloaded anything illegally for years, including all the stuff I downloaded. Which included loads of things I wouldn't otherwise have watched.

I'd be interested to hear how easy it is to get hold of region free players in the US and elsewhere.

Que the intro to Win 7

I've read a few of their books - I have an old edition of Using linux at my parents' house, but I can't say I've heard of that one.

They don't look like CDs: http://www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=sa_menu_dm1?ie=UTF8&node=77197031&pf_rd_p=218610391&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=468294&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0FP8207JX6SK1TEG62GB

That isn't true.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://www.amazon.de/
http://www.amazon.fr/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/
http://www.amazon.ca/

I only checked the first few, but they all have music stores.

Actually if there exists a wider multiverse than just our Universe, then it's much more likely we're in a simulated universe than a real one.

Have a read of The Goldilocks Enigma for discussion of multiverses, simulated universes, levitating super-turtles, God and what each hypothesis means and where it falls down... great book :)

Firstly no information can be lost, so when anything falls into a black hole the information has to go somewhere - and the only thing accessable to the outside universe is the event horizon itself. Information and entropy are related (as entropy is a measure of disorder), and entropy is related to temperature. The conservation of information leads to an explaination of why black holes are hot and emit radiation.

From what I remember on an event horizon the fundamental limit of information storage is 1 bit per area of 2x2 Planck lengths i.e. 4 Planck areas. The total information you can store on any event horizon is therefore much less than the inforation that would be required to specify the entire interior volume down to the Planck length. But that is the limit, so therefore the interior must be specified by much less information i.e. bigger spacetime "pixels". If spacetime is only specified to 2 Planck lengths, then spacetime coordinates require 1/16th as much information to specify as an example.

It's like lossy compression - the more fine detail you sacrifice, the less information is required to specify it. And seeing as we're inside a big horizon due to the speed of light (the horizon of the observable Universe), you can apply the same principle to the Universe as a whole.

This book explains it all much better than I did though :)

It would be interesting to see what happened if a few people complained about this page (warning. Potentially NSFW):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Radiant-Identities-Elizabeth-Beverley/dp/0893816493/ref=pd_sim_b_2_img

The IWF seems to be targetting non-commercial sites such as Wikipedia and archive.org. If they want to seem honest and unbiased then they should also examine the content on commercial sites.

I would argue that Gilbert "practically invented modern science," since he was the earliest influential early practitioner of the scientific method we know of today (ref: The Fellowship - John Gribbin). Not that Galileo doesn't deserve credit, he was one of the earliest practitioners of the method, popularised it a great deal and had many successes.

This sounds like Amazon prime They offered me a free trial before Christmas and I just remembered when I read this. They would have charged me £47.97 if I hadn't cancelled by tomorrow!

That being said, I always though Microsoft's weird fascination with these things went a little too far

I thought of Clippy a lot while reading the 1998 book The Media Equation. Here's a review. In short, the researchers' hypothesis was that human interaction instincts like politeness are wired into our brain in such a way that they do not get suspended when using computers. Examples are given in that review.

It's a believable-sounding hypothesis, and the authors then present a stack of experimental data that corroborates their hypothesis.

If you look at book pate 33 it says: "How do you enter or leave a social situation? In any face-to-face conversation, people don't turn around and leave. First, they indicate intent and then ask permission to leave, at least implicitly. The opportunity to break this rule in media is legendary. In a famous interface project, a character suddenly disappeared from the screen due to a bug in the program. Users became disturbed, the designers noted, because they felt that the character was angry and had left as a result. Users did not view the disappearance as a problem with the technology. Characters that leave the screen should always take leave by saying "good-bye" or at least making a sound or gesture. They shouldn't evaporate into the digital ether."

If you still have access to an old copy of office, get Clippy up, then get rid of it. You get a short 'goodbye' animation before the character disappears.

There's a testimony at the start of the book: "Nass and Reeves have spent the last decade working in the area of social responses to technology. We brought them into our team, and they have shown us some amazing things." -- Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Clippy was a reasonable-sounding social sciences hypotheses, corroborated by experimental data, and realised as a commercial software product. Whether Clippy's failure was a failure of the hypothesis or of the implementation is hard to tell.

Whenever I hear "Chicken Little" I think of the novel The Space Merchants by Pohl & Cornbluth... So I was wondering what a giant GM KFC had to do with the sky being slightly closer than expected..?

The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without Windows. Microsoft certainly does not want notebook vendors selling them that way, and has effective strategies to induce them not to do so.

You mean like this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-One-Netbook-Sapphire/dp/B001BZ4QV2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1229224860&sr=8-1

Yep.. Microsoft have really forced these companies to toe the line. No way would any company dare to sell a Linux based netbook with 120gig of hard drive and 1 gig of ram.. Like the one that Amazon have in stock right now..

I expect they start with legal bribes, price structures effecting both the vendors larger systems and the smaller ones, and if that doesn't work the patent portfolio comes out and they discuss whether you'd like to cross-license on their terms or be sued.

They will?? Oh crap. Better hope that they don't notice Dell, Asus, Acer, IBM, HP, Lenovo and others then.

All of which means you won't see many of the Linux machines at retail. So, the customer has to self-install, which is beyond most of them.

And if they do, then Microsoft will send in the heavy mob with pickaxe handles to smash all the stock or something similarly dramatic.. Come on.. Microsoft can't put much pressure on the companies that sell most of it's products any more than Wally World can hire people to break competitor's windows.

The days of Microsoft coming in and telling a big OEM what to do are long gone. Microsoft are on the defensive if anything. They made a new OS that is too big and too slow to work on these netbooks, which were a surprise success. They had to back down and keep selling XP when they didn't want to, and they have pushed back the cut-off date at least once. Are these the acts of an all powerful company that has the whole computer industry by the balls? Don't think so.

I just finished Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science" and I can highly recommend it.

Rich.

Same image can be found on Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trance-Virgin-Killer-Deluxe-Collectors/dp/B000N3AWGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1228666270&sr=8-2 (Click on "See larger image and other views").

Very tricky situation, as the image is clearly illegal by your law (and possibly by ours too).

Actually, reading the wikipedia article on Virgin Killer, it seems that it is bonafide child pornography.

And regardless of this allegation anyone can buy an album with this image on the back cover in record stores in the UK. Doesn't that seem strange to you that the rules for online censorship cover something that is distributed without restrictions in the "real world"?

I have beside me a book entitled Phantoms in the Brain (VS Ramachandran, foreword Oliver Sachs) first published in 1998, which suggests you should "have your friend stroke identical locations on both your hand and the dummy hand synchronously while you look at the dummy. Within seconds you will experience the stroking sensations as arising from the dummy hand". It goes on to describe how you can also experience touch sensations as arising from tables and chairs.

Incidentally I'd recommend this book for anybody interested in perception; it's a readable introduction into the very strange perceptual phenomena that can be encountered by people with rare forms of brain damage, some of which give valuable insights into the way the mind works.

There is still so much to learn about the universe.

Nuhu! That is blasphemy! All the answer are right there in the book! Smart Girl's Guide to Manners

I also recommend Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans, published by O'Reilly. It has 75 "hacks" you can choose from, sorted by subjects as memory, information processing, creativity, decision making and mental fitness.

It's kind of a follow-up to Mind Hacks, which shows how your brain works. Mind Performance Hacks focuses on improving its performance.

I also recommend Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans, published by O'Reilly. It has 75 "hacks" you can choose from, sorted by subjects as memory, information processing, creativity, decision making and mental fitness.

It's kind of a follow-up to Mind Hacks, which shows how your brain works. Mind Performance Hacks focuses on improving its performance.

All the individuals who became the mass movement behind Obama believing there would be real change should read a book called The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.

One of the most potent attractions of a mass movement is its offering of a substitute for individual hope. This attraction is particularly effective in a society imbued with the idea of progress. For in the conception of progress, "tomorrow" looms large, and the frustration resulting from having nothing to look forward to is the more poignant. ... A rising mass movement preaches the immediate hope. It is intent on stirring its followers to action, and it is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to act. ... Later, as the movement comes to power, the emphasis is shifted to the distant hope - the dream and the vision."

Perhaps he should try reading this book... http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2GHTSB9P55XPQ/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
:-)

and the Physics will reveal itself to you. But really, an excellent place to start would be a math text for physics students, e.g., http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematical-Methods-Physics-Engineering-Comprehensive/dp/0521679710

When I was still in school, we use the Quantum Mechanics from Richard W. Robinett

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/QuantumPhysics/?view=usa&ci=9780198530978

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Mechanics-Classical-Visualized-Examples/dp/0195092023

After that would be books on solid-state

Wrong answer.

The earliest tetrapods commonly had from four to eight digits on their fore-limbs and hind-limbs.

The last time I looked, octadactyl limbs were known, heptadactyls and (of course) the stereotypical pentadactyl ; I'm not sure whether hexadactyl limbs are or are not known from the fossil record, but I'm sure that tetradactyls are not reported except as reduced pentadactyls.

This corresponded to the ancestral lobe structure of their immediate fishy predecessors.

Hmmm, that's a VERY broad brush. I'd recommend Jenny Clack's "Gaining Ground" for a medium-weight introduction. (I'll admit - despite JC's relatively engaging style, I've not finished reading my copy.) There's also a commemorative volume coming out of the Geological Society's Publishing House for Pete Forey's work on the fishy end of the tetrapod continuum, which might be clearer. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/bookshop/page3213.html

Come to think of it, Forey's coelacanth book is pretty good too, when it comes to the different structures of fish limbs.

This trailer says to me "expect to die - a lot". Think I can hold back my $50 until they're going to give the demo away, and finish watching Dead Set instead :) Plus the UK/US exchange has swung madly away from us Brits so Steam purchases aren't as good value as they used to be.

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

Here are a few books with many more out there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Hours/dp/0672314533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Cobol-Programming-Palgrave-Master/dp/0333681061/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-2


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-COBOL-Days/dp/0672311372/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-8


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Cobol-Structured-Object-oriented-Programming/dp/0471314811/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-16


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Structured-COBOL-Programming-Nancy-Stern/dp/0471073210/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789053&sr=1-5


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Object-Oriented-COBOL-Reed-Doke/dp/0471183466/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224789118&sr=1-14

It's a slightly older game, but Star Wars - Galactic Battlegrounds is great in co-op. While you can't take over your partner's character, you can work together against the enemy/enemies, share your resources, patrol and protect your partner etc.

The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price.

They're available now, from £11.99 upwards.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dancing+flower&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=689581509&ref=pd_sl_2h5hlp7cun_b

I thought the UK was part of europe-- but I'm not too sure.. if I'm right, I'd point out the following
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Team-1-Stanley-Ellis/dp/B0002VF6BU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1223907585&sr=1-2
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,348 in DVD

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Gear-Box-Jeremy-Clarkson/dp/B000GYHZ1W

Top Gear is available if you look for it.

Still doesnt make take down notices for harmless video's any less anal. If anything old music tends to see an increase in sales due to getting some exposure, it has happened repeatedly.

In this case the music belongs to universal, prince isn't losing anything, he lost it before to universal isn't that why he changed his name.

where should things go next, nike ordering a take down because a nike logo is visible, or perhaps mcdonalds doesn't like being compared to burger king and they issue a takedown notice.

Or the olympic committee ... hmm been there already.

There is very little anyone can do to fight back, however the kind of person who makes these kind of decisions is barely human and loathed by everyone who knows them anyway.

If you're worried about bricking, the safest way is with a 'pandora battery' (a service-mode battery, really) and a memory stick. You can get a tool from Amazon that changes batteries from normal to service batteries for about 12 euros; otherwise you need a specialised service battery, or risk hardmodding your own and possibly damaging it.

I opted to use the tool, it's extremely easy and it only takes a few minutes. Check out this thread on SA for very helpful instructions and some homebrew links.

It is important to note that Chimpanzees will not cross rivers or lakes. There is no way they could have traveled to Leopoldville.

It is also important to note that they are only talking about HIV-1.

HIV-2 ( from the Sootey Mangabe, a simian that lives in Western Africa ) also exploded at the exact same time as HIV-1. Amazing coincidence for these two diseases to appear simultaneously on opposite sides of the African continent.

The River, by Ed Hopperhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Journey-Source-Penguin-Science/dp/0140283773/ has a very interesting argument that HIV-1 & HOV-2 were introduced by accident during the cultivation of Polio vaccines in Chimpanzee livers. Vaccinations and the earliest cases of HIV can be plotted on a map with amazing correlation.

What would the world come to if people (or 'actors') start believing some SF book is "The Word".

Stranger In A Strange Land. Audiobook, for a change.

Terry Pratchett ... is ONLY allowed to write Discworld books until he's unable to write or they cure Alzheimer's Disease.

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