downer99

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by downer99 13y ago
It's tough in a court of public opinion, though. Especially when it comes to artistic works of fiction as interpretted by adversarial critics. Some of this is just so much gossip. Such is the life of the cartoonist who courts controver
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by downer99 13y ago
Well! Those certainly are some, eh... curious... statements, aren't they? I never read Cerebus cover-to-cover, because, well, it's freaking huge. I've only perused a couple of volumes, in particular, the first and last volume
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by downer99 13y ago
Woah! So wait. Dave Sim is a misogynist? Like, a card-carrying member of the Misogynist party? THE Dave Sim, creator of the Cerebus comic book? How do you kick off an article with a bold statement like that, and not include at least a lin
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by downer99 13y ago
At least we can rest assured that, in the event of some horrible cataclysm, there will always be plenty of human fossils hanging around somewhere, to preserve humanity's legacy.
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by downer99 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/664/
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by downer99 13y ago
Agreed, linking through Stanislaw Ulam turned out to be evermore interesting, even though the Ulam Spriral itself is a good starting point, given its relevance to the field of programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by downer99 13y ago
It seems strange that there wouldn't be an English word to describe what MSG tastes like. In general, I think MSG simply tastes salty, even though I understand and agree that it doesn't precisely taste like a salt. MSG doesn'
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by downer99 13y ago
The worst offender for all time has to be Oracle. Outside of '01-JAN-1999', I am forever Googling "TO_DATE Oracle" because the string formats for precision time stamps always turn out to be counter-intuitive, and the exa
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by downer99 13y ago
It's Science as much as any social science is Science. The only reason we can't transform social sciences into hard sciences is because it would be horrifically cruel and unethical to exert rigid, inflexible rules on thinking, bre