Category: books
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Dr. Angela Collier’s “The Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman”
It can be disappointing to find out that many of the people we respect or appreciate turn out to be less than we had hoped. While I was pretty disappointed at first to find that we could add Feynman to this list, the benefit to finding out is that we can use it as an…
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The old LSD on the steering wheel trick
“They actually conducted surveillance. They followed him from his work to his house,” Feldstein says. “They staked out his house. They looked at it for vulnerabilities … [and dicussed] how they could plant poison in his aspirin bottle. They talked about how they could spike his drink and they talked about smearing LSD on his…
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Sysadmin Survivalist Fanfiction
“And you’ll be what, the Pope-Emperor of the World?” via When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow.
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The OpenSolaris Bible: a review
Today, I just received my copy of the OpenSolaris Bible by Nicolas A. Solter, Gerald Jelinek, and David Miner. While the post office only dropped this off today, I’ve been frequenting my local bookstore to read this book several times over the past week. To be honest, I haven’t yet finished the book’s meaty 971…