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Paste into your Mac Terminal and enjoy an ASCII rendition of Star Wars, Episode IV.
The weekend beckons, so I thought I’d write something about the World Cup. At his personal blog, Jonathan Last links to a pretty apt take-down of soccer evangelists he wrote in 2002, when Americans were in the grip of another pseudo-World Cup craze.* I say ‘pseudo’ because despite its best efforts, the media-industrial complex is still unable to gin up genuine grassroots enthusiasm for American soccer. The only demographic the game appeals to consists of young, worldly, educated types –
Man, what a bunch of selfish bastards we are. Gold hoarding abounds. Tea parties rage. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s gospel of self-interest, is outselling The Audacity of Hope on Amazon.com. And trust in the institutions we’ve traditionally relied upon to encourage/enforce philanthropy and its evil twin, redistribution — government, nonprofits, and the church — appears to be at a historic low.
My name is Stephen Hawking. Physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer. Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions, such as: is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past or find a shortcut to the…
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