Stephen Hawking floats weightless on a zero-gravity flight

My thanks to The Online Photographer for first posting this (2022-04-30: though I’m blowed if I can find the original link).

I’m interupting the delayed-gratification travelblog briefly to announce a fine sighting: a new collective science blog. What I really like is how it came about, which I learned from Seth Roberts. Executive summary: Seed Magazine rejected a bunch of applicants who wished to join the pantheon at...

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I do not normally consider myself in the linking-madly-diverse-bits-of-information-to-come-up-with-some-startling-new-perception game. But this past week, truly, two completely separate blog postings have dealt with the idea of simplicity and a good user experience from two entirely different perspe...

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I think I may be in love. It's a long time since I've felt this way, since I've been eager to explore the further reaches of an infatuation. And an especially long time since a piece of software had this effect on me. I'm talking about Bookends, a piece of bibliographic magic for the Mac. But let's...

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It’s either an angry, slanderous lie, or Bill Gates is an uninformed jackass.

You decide. Bill Gates in Newsweek, or John Gruber on Daring Fireball.