2006-03-29

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2006-03-29 09:34 am
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2006-03-29 10:31 am

Sheckley

Waiting for tech support, so will pass the time by sharing a couple of passages from Robert Sheckley's collection Pilgrimage to Earth.

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And a couple of unrelated cool stories:

Via [livejournal.com profile] sclerotic_rings, NY Times article on the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm, now nearing completion, helped by a mixture of diplomacy and dirty tricks.

Via [livejournal.com profile] mordwen, U. Minnesota uses Neverwinter Nights to teach journalism. "When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre - stuff like that. The librarian had breastplates."
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2006-03-29 02:09 pm

Crocs are for wusses

SMH story: thieves broke into a Rockhampton zoo and tried to steal a koala. But the koala proved to be too vicious for them, so they stole a 40-kg crocodile instead and climbed a 2.4-metre fence with it.

(Those with more than a passing familiarity with koalas may be aware that this isn't as silly as it sounds. The thieves were caught, but the crocodile is still missing, having been traded for drugs.)