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The (slightly late, sorry) introduction to the Science Blog, by Geeta!

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The point about process over results was really well made. In an ideal world, we'd have hobbyist labs and listening parties.

"The false senses of community, intimacy and importance created by the Internet are also, frankly, cunt's tricks." (Tom, quoted from another site w/o permission)

I sort of agree with this. The effort required to make participation meaningful is probably beyond us. The community would have to be strong enough for prestige within the community to be a reward. Why is modern life unbearable?

― youn, Monday, 6 October 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yay thanks tom!!

any chance you could get the paragraph breaks in? it looks like one huge paragraph...

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

geeta. have you considered writing on science for a popular magazine or newspaper? i bet you'd do a great job.

― youn, Monday, 6 October 2003 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, thanks youn! yeah i'd like to...right now i review psychiatry books for publishers weekly, but that's it as far as science goes

tom check yr email -- i sent you the copy w/ html paragraph tags in!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 October 2003 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

:( I put para tags in I'm sure of it!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 October 2003 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only that I'm seeing them when I look at the article - it may be a browser/style sheet thing, what are you using Geeta?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 October 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I also see the paragraph breaks, so they must be there, it is PBS!

(would it be possible to put up a version that was just one long paragraph? thanks)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 October 2003 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Which browser are you using Geeta? I have noticed FT articles don't have paragraph breaks in IE on Macs. Which isn't suprising given how much the Mac implementation of IE sucks.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

they have para breaks in safari!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ok it must be internet explorer -- yeah i'm on a mac!

i'll fire up safari, thanks dudes!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I look forward to the Science Blog.

(On occasion I've flipped through SEED magazine and enjoyed it. They are almost certainly guilty of glossing over things but they make an attempt at least to make science sexy and exciting, which I like.)

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah Seed's cool but they make a big deal out of getting 'luminaries' to write for them like dull Susan Sontag et al. -- whereas Proven by Science's gang of lovable lunatics includes Brazen Hussies guitar hero Dave Q!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(Ah, I didn't realize the science blog was already up.)

This is one of my favorite science articles. (It inspired a poem and my iMac being named ariane 5.1.)

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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