I saw One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest last night. Very good movie. I think it's one of those movies you need time to think about before you make any final judgements, though. It certainly seems to have stood the time for everyone else, of course, seeing as it's 13th on the imdb greatest movies of all time list. Most of what I knew about the movie going in was based on parodies, which I thought was pretty funny. Mostly from the Simpsons, now that I think about it. Eerie.
(Note: when I first typed that last paragraph, I had wrote "Pimpsons." Just thought you'd like to know.)
The march of cool stuff in the MIT Technology Review keeps on coming. I recently read about the problem the department of archives is having with the influx of electronic records. Seems like just storing the data isn't enough; they need a system that can handle every single program used by the government since the inception of the computer itself. That's a pretty tall order. In addition to that, they need more space than any of us really stands a chance of imagining. I mean, I think my 220 gigs of memory is fairly robust, but that would only hold (calculating) about 1/10000 of the information in US research libraries. That seems high. I'll get back to you if I'm wrong.
Also, there's a story about digitally manipulated art that was kinda cool. It's photoshop, (sort of) but on a massive scale. You should check it out.
Now, time for Super-Nerdy Fun Corner. There's a game I've been playing, Homeworld: Cataclysm. In this game, there are these two ships, the Acolyte and the ACV. The ACV has double the armor and firepower of the acolyte, and very slightly reduced speed. However, if one ACV takes on 2 acolytes, it usually wins. There has to be some mathematical reason for this, and I'll fill you in just as soon as I find it. Something to do with game theory, I betcha.
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