Monthly Archives: October 2003

Classic album covers recreated in Lego blocks. Most of these are past my time, but some I recognize. Yet more evidence that some bloggers have more time on their hands than is good for them. from Minifig via Boing Boing

LONDON – A television station said Friday it had shelved a reality show that set up six male contestants with what appeared to be a gorgeous woman but was actually a transsexual. The program, "Find Me A Man," challenged the … Continue reading →

Venerable Harvard Stadium, architecturally renowned as the first building in the world to utilize the then-revolutionary but now ubiquitous construction technique known as "reinforced concrete", is celebrating its centennial this year. It is also famous as the site of a … Continue reading →

Garry ‘Stretch’ Turner was hoping to clip more than 153 pegs to his face at the launch of the 2004 Guinness Book of Records in Manchester. But his effort at the city’s Arndale Centre failed when he managed to clip … Continue reading →

An interesting article from the New York Times about the tendency in Japan to use or not to use honorific titles. This goes to the point of one of my areas of special interest – the relationship between language and culture, … Continue reading →

Fishermen work on a boat filled with freshly caught dolphins while a diver prepares to submerge in the blood-filled water near the fishing town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecutre in this photo taken Friday, Oct. 6, 2003 by American anti-whaling … Continue reading →

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel. The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a "Fox News Crawl" at the bottom of the screen, which parodied … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters) – All those e-mails — junk or otherwise — are adding up. In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill 500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according to a study by faculty and students … Continue reading →

The Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but faces criticism from free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions. As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, … Continue reading →

Lying on my back on a starry night, counting the uncountable, it seems as though mankind’s noble aspiration to migrate out of the gravity well is bound to succeed, allowing us to assume our rightful place among the pantheon of … Continue reading →

Unlike yesterday’s educational diagram, this is an actual photo, from NASA, of the solar flare which is scheduled to reach earth any minute now. While it only takes about 6 minutes for light to get to Earth from the sun, … Continue reading →