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It used to be standard practice, at the end of a year, to cut all the ads out of that year's issues and bind them in a single hardback volume.

Now historians realize that often the ads may be more interesting than the articles.

> use it as a "score"

Sounds like achiever/explorer/killer/socializer?

Anyone know why the Russian Formalists got the sparkling repressive power of the state? I had thought they were expressly apolitical, but maybe Stalin was paranoid?

It's been found difficult, and left untried

Nearly all customer facing computing is now optimized for people who don't know how computers work, not for people who do.

You and your smarter friends could share bookmarks with each other and comment on them, via email.

This would have an incredibly high barrier to entry, because out of 8-9b people on the planet, which hundred are going to be (and remain) a smarter friend (or fof) of leafy?

If we randomly sample individuals on earth, we're also likely to be single-celled organisms.

If they can make even more money on a different viable business by vampiring out this one, the NPV calculation says...

(What %age of eastern european enterprises got long term investment in the 1990s?)

The Miss Manners approach to dating served me well:

All dates have three elements: food, entertainment, and affection. A first date should have plenty of entertainment and only a hint of affection. At some point, the affection becomes the entertainment, but under no circumstances may the food be omitted.

Oops, sorry for the spoiler

Recall that no one could reconcile billion year ages for the earth with it not having cooled far more - until the discovery of radioactivity.

What evidence? Do we no longer figure ~4by bp?

After going back through all the elephants, life started with Great A'Tuin.

Anyone remember the title of the short where they explore an ancient martian city and find a periodic table that serves as a Rosetta stone?