Ran across an interesting site the other day: seems that everybody's favorite search engine has become too damned popular. Keeping tabs on Google just might be a good idea. After all things are getting just too strange. Between websites tracking your online habits and the corner grocery store wanting to add you to their data warehouse before they'll sell you some bleach and condoms, it's enough to make you narapoid. But to fuel some real conspiracy theories, you can go no further than Lawrence Lessig's blog on the laws of Cyberspace.
When did I first read One, Two, Three, Infinity by George Gamow? In 7th or 8th grade, I seem to remember. I was fascinated with numbers like googol (10^100), googolplex (10^googol), and aleph-null. There's a good book on how infinity drove Georg Cantor insane.
Posted by jim at January 29, 2003 07:44 AMI have a screen saver with one of Cantor boxes... you know, the ones that gradually approach an area of two, or something, but you keep taking out the middle? At least I think they were called Cantor boxes...
Anyway, it drives *me* insane!
:)
Posted by: pat on August 12, 2003 09:00 AM