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Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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They're all Duke grads. ;-)
Tim Romano

At 03:26 AM 9/12/03, Tim Bray wrote:
>Tim Romano wrote:
>
>>http://www.mentalfloss.com/newissue.htm
>
>>>
>>>     I have not seen it yet, but I understand there is an article on EP in
>>>MENTAL FLOSS magazine Vol.2 Issue 5 by Greg Barnhisel. Has anyone read
>>>it?
>
>I purchased this magazine and read most of it, and I do not recommend
>it.  I struggle for vocabulary to describe it... it's trying to do the
>sound-bite version of erudition or something.  It's full of "fascinating
>facts", and no article is longer than 3 or 4 pages, the attitude is
>pretty relentlessly gee-whiz. [...] I can't
>imagine what kind of person invents such a magazine.
>
>--
>Cheers, Tim Bray
>         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
>
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