• On October 6, 1965, a new musical called The Moon And The Rose opened at the Longacre Theatre on 48th Street. The show received rave reviews, but closed the following afternoon after just one performance. Critics and audiences alike were stunned. No reason was given by the play’s producers, though it was widely...
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There is a concrete lesson we can learn from dinosaurs, SUVs and the 30,000 calorie sandwich. The lesson is this: Bigger may not necessarily be better in the long run, but it can still kick some serious ass. When applied to recent concerns about the advent of swarm robots, this brings up a burning...
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Let’s talk about good ideas for a minute. Good ideas are like building blocks. Pretty much everything worthwhile, from a fun weekend to a breakthrough in medicine, begins when someone puts a good idea out there into the ether. Sometimes that idea stands alone, a self-sustaining entity. Sometimes it is met in kind with...
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In honor of Independence Day, a pair of drawings that have nothing to do with anything. Click here for the full image. Click here for the full image. (EDIT October 2008: The library of image thumbnails did not port from the old site, but those links will work just fine.)
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Heartened by the recent blow struck against the spidergoat menace, I’ve found that my outlook has improved dramatically. There’s been a subtle spring in my step, a flicker of hope around the corners of my smile. It’s kind of like the end of “Terminator 2,” when Sarah Connor stares at the road ahead of...
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