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Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on March 6, 2010 at 9:59pm

Although I hear what you're saying .... Would this have been done without the (at least possible) plans to use it for the video? Entertainment -- even eye-candy -- is a use.

Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on March 6, 2010 at 10:08pm

I agree - I didn't say it had no value - I said it was nonsense. I happen to enjoy a great deal of nonsense - within the context of nonsense.

Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on March 6, 2010 at 10:10pm

But you did say "utterly useless" ...

Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on March 6, 2010 at 11:07pm

Ah - I was using the term 'use' as in - solving a problem, producing work, etc. I suppose 'increasing enjoyment' is a type of use. I think it rises above utility. Useful things are valuable because they provide us with the free time to do useless things. I'm pretty sure the best things in life are utterly useless, totally temporary, and entirely too expensive.

Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on March 26, 2010 at 2:27pm

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on June 15, 2013 at 8:21pm

If I can remember crank phones, ice boxes, wood stoves, chickens in the hen house, what will my great-grandchildren experience when they are 77 years old? 

Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on May 4, 2010 at 9:14am

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on May 14, 2010 at 11:32am

From TED 2010: Toward a Science of Simplicity by George Whitesides

Permalink Reply by Lillie on August 17, 2012 at 8:23pm

Good luck to him in overhauling the Health Care System.  Then he needs to start on the Education System.