2001 in anime reviewed (an excellent year for anime, as it gave us: Animation Runner Kuromi, Cat Soup, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, FLCL, Fruits Basket, Haré+Guu, Metropolis, Millennium Actress, Princess Arete, Read or Die OVA, & Spirited Away.)
Basically, but they were willing to settle for someone who would pretend to be a walrus for a few hours each day in exchange for free rent. A pity it’s gone, it was fairly funny even if I have to doubt its veracity.
Technology:
On the n-body problem’s useless solution
“Inside a Startup’s Plan to Turn a Swarm of DIY Satellites Into an All-Seeing Eye” (see WP: ultimately launched some satellites, was acquired by Google)
“Harnessing human computation: Luis von Ahn helped save the internet from spammers. His larger quest is to put internet chores to productive use”
“Inside The Immortality Business: Thanks to a small but devoted core of true believers and an infusion of Silicon Valley research funds, the once-revered, much-reviled science of cryopreservation may itself be coming back from the dead. Welcome to Alcor, where death is merely a temporary setback.”
Economics:
How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup
Libertarians against recycling
“Labor’s Declining Share of Income and Rising Inequality”
When should the Devil keep his deals? a game-theoretic approach
Fiction:
2001 in anime reviewed (an excellent year for anime, as it gave us: Animation Runner Kuromi, Cat Soup, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, FLCL, Fruits Basket, Haré+Guu, Metropolis, Millennium Actress, Princess Arete, Read or Die OVA, & Spirited Away.)
“Harry Potter Fanfiction Data (Most popular characters, publishing rates, etc)” (I would not have guessed that fictions starring Daphne & Harry were the most popular.)
Misc:
Long hair
Wanted: walrus lodger
The walrus lodger add is down; could you explain what the add was for exactly?
I mean…
Did someone want a walrus as a lodger?
Basically, but they were willing to settle for someone who would pretend to be a walrus for a few hours each day in exchange for free rent. A pity it’s gone, it was fairly funny even if I have to doubt its veracity.