TimeBlimp: Get Your Geek On
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Welcome to Timeblimp!
“Oh hey, I didn’t see you there! Welcome!” Ugh, that kind of intro is so hackneyed, that making fun of it is now also hackneyed. You’ve found one of the foremost sites on the web for information you really don’t need. This is where people go to arm themselves with facts to annoy others at parties. No, we don’t mean political discussions, or how to make a better faux-hawk — the harmless facts, the interesting trivia that make life interesting. The facts that sound better described using a nasal voice. The dorky facts. |
| Math Yeah, that’s right. Math. |
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| Science She blinded me with bursts of coherent photons to the face! |
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| History And leather elbow patches. |
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| People Feeling good about yourself lately? Cut that crap out. |
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| Culture We drain the fun out of the art you love. |
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| Opinion Opinions are like mitochondria, everyone’s got about 10 billion. |
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| Original Research Why yes, that is a Macarthur Genius Grant that I’m picking my teeth with. |
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| We’ve hunted around for the interesting stories that we think are really cool. Not just what techno-geeks and supreme academics will think of as cool — I for one have heard how the transistor works one too many times — but the really cool stories about the world that even the algebra-disadvantaged could appreciate.And we’ve tried to find relatively obscure topics, stuff not covered by yer typical PBS show or Popular Mechanics article. You’re not going to see much here on the causes of the Civil War, or on Relativity Theory. The History Channel has pretty much wrote the book on World War II, and I think everyone on earth now knows that to a topologist, a doughnut is identical to a coffee cup. But did you hear about the insects that understand prime numbers? Or the day that America had no government at all?
Caveat: At the moment, we’re still bootstrapping ourselves up into a respectable website — which is to say, we are not a respectable website. Don’t be surprised if an article is unfinished, or is poorly written — eventually we will fix the first problem. Please stop by now and again, as we add essays on important topics to the dork community. For now, we are proud (in a geeky sort of way) to present the smattering of content we could come up with on a weekend afternoon… |
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