Achenblog: June 18, 2006 - June 24, 2006
My House
Spouse is out of town for a few days, so the house is mine. MINE. I am the master of all I survey, including all of the internal airspace, the surfaces, the furniture, the electronics, and each and every...
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June 23, 2006; 10:13 AM ET |
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Good Stuff
Gosh I wish I'd written this, by Louis Menand in The New Yorker: "The public concern over natural hearing loss--the Times explains that the medical term is 'presbycusis'--is part of a trend that started when Bob Dole told the...
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Joel Achenbach
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June 22, 2006; 7:37 AM ET |
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Inventing Internet Journalism
Washingtonpost.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and has posted a history of itself, which tragically but predictably fails to mention me, or my heroic efforts to invent Internet journalism as we know it. The phrase "glaring omission" comes to...
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Joel Achenbach
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June 20, 2006; 7:31 AM ET |
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Spontaneous Parthenogenesis
Yesterday I went on a hike on the Appalachian Trail in Tennessee, and, after much huffing and puffing up the mountain, came across some wild blueberries. Having failed to bring food or water, I availed myself of nature's bounty....
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Joel Achenbach
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June 19, 2006; 8:15 AM ET |
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Crash Course on Computers
[My column in the Sunday magazine.] In science fiction movies, computers always become smarter and smarter, until they achieve consciousness, at which point they get the bright idea of exterminating the human race. No one's ever invented a fully functioning...
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Joel Achenbach
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June 18, 2006; 8:29 PM ET |
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