August 12, 2006

Life is an M.C Escher Painting

Filed under: Culture, Debate, Foolish, Science, TEH INTARWEB, Technology — Tim @ 11:57 pm

If you are familiar with the Universe Simulation research done by computer scientist-cum-quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd, you may be interested in an older article from New Scientist, “Life’s a sim and then you’re deleted.”

Here is the full text.

Note: be sure to read up on Lloyd’s calculations of how to recreate/simulate an entire galactic system via computers.

See also, the film: The Thirteenth Floor

If soccer was an economic system, what would it be?

Filed under: Culture, Debate, Economics, History, TEH INTARWEB — Tim @ 2:26 am

Apropos my article, “Separation of Sport and State” is an interesting analysis of soccer (football) as seen through the eyes of a professional economist:

Bend It Like (Yogi) Berra

Be sure to also watch some of those David Beckam highlights at YouTube.