Zenarchery

If you take a statistical sampling of diet tips from a few dozen people, you will learn that every single possible foodstuff is terrible for you; water may be poisonous in small doses; and that the only “real” way to lose weight and get into shape is to make your daily caloric intake consist of [...]

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America’s greatest national resource is not oil, or crops, or arable land.
America’s greatest national resource is hope. And today we have renewed that resource.
And we will remember, I hope we will remember, that our hope is not predicated upon the successes or failures of one man or one party or one government. America is not [...]

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It’s a terrible thing to watch Nathan Barley and feel all superior to those trendy new media assholes…and then suddenly realize that you’re watching Nathan Barley and feeling all superior to those trendy new media assholes whilst simultaneously editing together clips from the Prelinger archives to make videos for spoken word pieces about monsters.
While wearing [...]

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What is the smallest possible yield for a nuclear explosive? In other words, what’s the smallest possible mass required to become critical? Could you build a nuclear bomb with the explosive force of a grenade, for example?
I understand generally how a nuclear fission reaction occurs, and I’m guessing that the answer has to do mainly [...]

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Quantum entanglement: it occurred to me today that the only ways quantum entanglement works is if a) space-time is a four-dimensional object that is folded around itself in n-dimensional space (n being a number higher than four), and what appear to be two entangled quanta are not actually four-dimensional particles but a single y-dimensional (y [...]

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So there are constantly people debating whether or not Al Gore is full of shit about global warming. (He’s not, by the way, but I’m not going to argue the point with you. His facts are accurate.)
So maybe there is global warming, and maybe it’s caused by man-made pollutants, and maybe not. But whether or [...]

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The CNN scroller just pointed out again that Richard Widmark died. But there was a mistype: it said that Widmark “died as his home”.
That gives me an idea for a short story.
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There is a tendency to use CPU power as a benchmark for technological progress. (”In 1960, a computer had X amount of cycles per second. In 2008, computers have Y amount. Wowee!”) As a blunt tool, this seems effective…but it seems to me that you can really measure progress in technology as an inverse function [...]

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In wake of the Gizmodo thing from CES, I keep seeing comments saying “They just should have secured their IR ports. It’s a security lesson.”
Well, know what? When I walk up to you on the street and slap your teeth out of your head, and then kick you in the stomach hard with my steel-toe [...]

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