Time travel is a pet topic of mine. I have said, and continue to say, that if there’s a way to travel in time, I’m signing up.
It’s being widely reported that a pair of Russian mathematicians say that a massive particle accelerator being built by CERN could be the first time machine. I’m particularly intrigued by this:
New Scientist says that if time travel ultimately proves possible, it could occur only as far back as the creation of the first time[...]
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iMarketing has just jumped the shark. iTunes was okay, iPod was okay, too. So was iLife. But now the iTouch? Even though I’d like to buy one, I feel dirty every time I say it. And the other day, Ross told me that Apple and Volkswagen are in talks to produce an iCar. I can’t see anyone approving the iBug moniker, but stranger things have happened. i[insert word here] is now forever associated with Apple, so you could argue that[...]
Guy enters lab with two girls. Guy desperately wants to impress girls. Girls oooo and awww when they see the dual-screen Mac G5s. Guys says, “Aren’t these computers nice? They’re European.” Girls giggle in awe of guy’s underwhelming intelligence.
Freshmen.
Two articles (quoted in their entireity below) in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog reinforce the notion that campus communications have evolved with the times. The first, regarding live online broadcasts of athletic events, is happening parallel to Cal’s own efforts to bring live streaming athletic events to the web beginning this fall. The second, using text messaging to push news to students, is an intriguing idea.
August 16, 2006
Small-Conference Football Hits the Computer Screen
Fans of the Oklahoma Sooners[...]
