Beauty is in the eye of the money-makers

by | Aug 27, 2005 | Uncategorized

[ganked from dr_nic and Neil Gaiman] This creep’s site boasts his skill in making models look ‘beau­ti­ful’. Actu­ally, he’s at the fore­front of the trend to digit­ally air­brush women so that they look unnat­ur­ally sym­met­rical, blem­ish-free, pert and slim. He...

US army public relations…

by | Aug 26, 2005 | Uncategorized

Hmmm. CENTCOM is appar­ently unhappy with how the PR war is going, so they’re send­ing out let­ters to high-pro­file blog­gers to encour­age more pos­it­ive cov­er­age of the war. Pesky thing, free­dom of speech. I love this guy’s response to the...

I love my friends

by | Aug 26, 2005 | Uncategorized

[ganked from mizchalmers feed from her other blog yatima_feed] Seth had writ­ten an art­icle about Rus­tic­a­tio Cali­for­ni­ana for Annalee’s magazine Other. Danny: I liked how the art­icle was pitched to the magazine’s target audi­ence. Lots of Lat­in­ate...

Original Einstein manuscript discovered

by | Aug 23, 2005 | Uncategorized

Wow, this is really cool! An ori­ginal 1924 manu­script of Ein­stein’s 1925 paper on “Quantum theory of the mon­atomic ideal gas” has just been found at the Uni­ver­sity of Leiden (which just hap­pens to be where Matt is right now for his astro­phys­ics con­fer­ence…...