d2rdiego's weblogdon't panic!- February 16, 2005 I've been listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the original radio series, on the iPod(s). Still can't get over the scene where missiles turn into a bowl of petunias and a whale, courtesy of Zaphod's Infinite Improbability Drive."And whereas the whale expressed bewilderment at materializing several miles above the surface of the planet..., the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003117.html garbage- February 6, 2005 I'm reading Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and I come across this paragraph:Human history at last took off around 50,000 years ago, at the time of what I have termed our Great Leap Forward. The earliest definite signs of that leap come from East African sites with standardized stone tools and the first preserved jewelry (ostrich-shell beads). Similar developments soon appear in the Near East and in southeastern Europe, where abundant artifacts are associated with follu...http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003104.html |