Posted by Brian Forte Posted on 2006 09 17 6 Comments on dammed beavers: the truth, the half-truth and kinda-like the truth
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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...
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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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...