November 27, 2003

» Romance 2.0

Love in the Time of No Time

People in fledgling relationships begun online can vanish from one another's lives with the same breathtaking efficiency as a line of text deleted from a word processing document, leaving no hole, no gap in one another's daily lives to mark the fact that they were ever there. For some, an awareness of this exit strategy permeates the enterprise, allowing them to skimp on the niceties they would more or less have to extend toward a person they were likely to meet again.

» This principled refusal thing is catching on

Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | 'Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought'

Benjamin Zephaniah: Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought.

» Godzilla's biology

NII-REO æ??é?² Volume32 , Issue2

The new Godzilla character apparently was made different from the old version on a number of key points to make him more biologically probable. However, calculations show that his limbs and limb muscles must have been severely undersized to move his huge bulk around at even a leisurely pace, and most other biological problems with the old Godzilla, e.g., growth rates and reptilian physiology at such a massive size, have remained unaltered. The old Godzilla was actually the more plausible from a biomechanical point of view.