Wired.com looks at super-precise time keeping clocks.

By , on 12 December, 2007

I’m a complex and ironic sort of guy. Take my fascination with the concept of time which is something I think about fairly regularly in both the abstract and literal senses of the word. You’d think that someone, like me, who not only ponders time quite a bit, but also has a small collection of . . . → Read More: Wired.com looks at super-precise time keeping clocks.

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“TIME” reporter Lev Grossman is a clueless ass about video games.

By , on 4 September, 2007

I knew there was a reason why I tend to prefer Newsweek over TIME magazine. Newsweek just seems to be more in-touch with reality than TIME does and I always thought it was some bias I held more so than any actual fact of the matter, but then I read an article by Lev Grossman . . . → Read More: “TIME” reporter Lev Grossman is a clueless ass about video games.

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Set your clocks for it.

By , on 5 May, 2007

An interesting oddity will occur (very) early tomorrow morning:

At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07. This will never happen again.

***Dave, who got this via DOF who got it from Living the Scientific Life, points out that, . . . → Read More: Set your clocks for it.

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