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The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.

›› Yet another anti-miracle for the LHC

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As a font, 3x3 has some issues; as an idea, it is brilliantSwedish futurist, Anders de Flon, designed this typeface all within a 9 pixel area. Obviously, it has some issues if you were going to use it on a day to day basis (a rapid failure of your ability to see might become a creeping problem) but it’s one of those things that makes you wonder why you didn’t think of first. (Well, I am wondering why I didn’t think of it first anyway.)

By the way, if any of you knows Mr De Flon well, I implore you to please update his badly written Wikipedia entry — it currently reads like a horrible English to Chinese to English translation.

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

›› John Kenneth Galbraith

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JULY 11, 2039: Bill Clinton, ninety-two, dies on the same day Chinese Democracy II is released.

›› Chuck Klosterman looks to the future on Esquire.com

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  • culture, future, parody, politics, writing

 

An excerpt from ‘The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond’
We haven’t struck gold in space and my car radio isn’t solar powered at all, at least we have the home computers that was predicted in the 1979 book, The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond.

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