Input Junkie - May 3rd, 2008
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05:44 am
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Non-funny wiseass would be more expensive
A $300,000 watch? Luxury. A $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time — and that sells out? Pure genius.
The watch has two tourbillons, includes metal from the Titanic, and only indicates day and night.
Best comment: I disagree with some of the sceptical comments here. I think this is a very useful watch. If I was a multi-millionaire with my head up my butt, I wouldn’t know day from night.
The website for the watch is probably the most pretentious website I've ever seen.
A failed effort to find out whether it's a hoax turned this up.
Link thanks to Marginal Revolution.
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06:44 am
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Science fiction, Asperger's, and the future
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/Westfahl_HomoAspergerus.html
Indeed, while one typically believes that people turn to science fiction in search of colorfully unusual vicarious experiences, an entirely different set of motives often may be in play: to a teenager in the 1930s with Asperger's Syndrome, a story about an astronaut encountering aliens on Mars might have had an air of comforting familiarity, in contrast to stories set in the bizarre, inexplicable, and thoroughly socialized worlds of Andy Hardy and the Bobbsey Twins.
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11:50 am
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Tolkien Survey
By way of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sartorias, here's the survey. It's collecting a social history of what people like about Tolkien's writing, their experiences with it, and why they think his work is so popular.
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