2005 April Links

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/a ... 25fa_fact3

You want global warming? I got your global warming right here. Shrinking glaciers, disappearing permafrost, melting icebergs.

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http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67 ... _tophead_4

SFW? Uses the word "teledildonics." You be the judge.

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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/28/la ... ilia_.html

A sobering message about the Trekkers in your life.

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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

OS X Tiger gives users something to do with those 256MB video cards.

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 529035.htm

Can't we all just accept evolution already? Yeesh. I'm sure God is like every other lazy programmer or inventor, and designed the simplest system he could that could answer whatever it is he created us for. The simplest system is one that can start from base pieces and just keep randomly combining. It's not like he hasn't got the time to wait for his answer...

I think Douglas Adams was thinking too small when he wrote that Earth was a giant computer.
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