dammed beavers: the truth, the half-truth and kinda-like the truth

Like so many of these stories, it arrived in my e-mail in-box. In this case, courtesy of the LinuxSA-Talk mailing list. And it began, again, in typical fashion. This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries...

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wally wood’s 22 panels

OK, if you aren't comics-geeky enough to have read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, this probably won't be all that distracting. OTOH, if you are comics-geeky enough to know and care about McCloud's magnum opus, the following may...

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ancient wonder and modern mediocrity

Writing in The Observer for 20th August 2006, Helena Smith opens an article on the Antikythera mechanism by writing that 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is...

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