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I’m hoping that as I make my way through Physics of the Impossible, Kaku will avoid Hawking’s penchant for history. I wonder how much of the futurist’s tendency to repeat himself is really the fault of the author; I imagine Kaku’s editors are told by the publisher to make any book in the series serve as a possible entry point for any reader, so that means we’re going to hear about how Kaku built an atom smasher in high school again, or read an explanation of Michael Faraday’s early years in every book. Annoying? Yes. Necessary? Not so much.
In Print is Dead, one of Jeff Gomez’s arguments in the chapter “On Demand Everything” struck me as peculiar. While I haven’t finished the entire book yet, I find myself agreeing with almost all of his defenses of the e-book, even when he sometimes arrives at different conclusions than I do.
Despite what the marketing team behind Wagamama wants you to believe about the restaurant’s Japanese name, the more accurate translation of Wagamama is not “willful, naughty child” but “selfishness.”
So, you need a pair of lipstick-red high heels, a bottle of neon orange Mehron liquid makeup and a pink feathered boa. Oh, and did you forget to mention that the high heels need to be men’s sized?
GALACTUS IS STORMCLOUD!? If this is true, I’m speechless. How can the creators of Fantastic Four 2 screw up one of the most iconic characters in Marvel comics history? (Really, that’s a silly question, given The X-Men). I mean, if Galactus were a potted plant or maybe a toilet seat, at least we’d get a laugh out of it.
