Eugene Volokh catches an apparent problem in an article in Oregon State's Daily Barometer: According to a press release issued by the Women's Center, 2,000 rapes occur every five minutes. This amounts to the claim that, on average, every woman in the United States is raped once every 9 months, which is absurd. Eugene tracks down the actual press release, which says: About … [Read more...] about Knowing About Rape
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The Google Cathedral
I think I'm just a little creeped out at the thought of Google having a soul of its own. … [Read more...] about The Google Cathedral
Whew.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050809/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle … [Read more...] about Whew.
Yesterday I Couldn’t Spell Mathematishun…
I just heard a radio ad for Harper College that was...surprising. The ad lists off a bunch of pairs of things where one is greater than the other and eventually suggests that I'd be greater with a Harper education than without one. What caught my attention, however, was the very first pair of things listed, which went something like this: "x to the n is greater than x to the … [Read more...] about Yesterday I Couldn’t Spell Mathematishun…
Digital Immortality
Glenn Reynolds says: Digital images are potentially immortal, so long as they get recopied from time to time onto fresh media, but reality being what it is, hardcopy in a shoebox is probably likely to outlast things that require actual human effort. What effort? Hard drive technology improves so fast that every time I get a new computer I just copy the entire … [Read more...] about Digital Immortality