September 2009
17 posts
“here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought...”
– Matt Harvey, via BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Saturday Live, 12/09/2009
Men of Science #1 →
Dr. Edward Teller.
How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology →
Guest blogger John Graham-Cumming initiated and led the successful petition drive to procure an apology to Alan Turing from the UK government. John is the author of The Geek Atlas, CTO of a…
From Taco Bell to drug kingpin →
In the late 90s, it was easy to get good pot in Idaho…just drive across the border to Canada and pick some up. Nate Norman decided to take advantage of that situation and became an unlikely drug…
Buzz plus spaceship →
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(2009-09-17 16:38)
Ooh! They’re actually making The Losers movie! Awesome. http://bit.ly/h9uQ8
Just my librium and me →
I’ve just discovered that David Bowie’s song All the Madmen is about his half brother and his time as a patient at the recently closed Cane Hill psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of…
Too stupid to use vending machine so I got a Nutrigrain instead of a Toffee Crisp. #firstworldproblems
Ark by Stephen Baxter →
Gollancz (2009), Paperback, 416 pages
My new hero: @HOBODARKSEID