Hong’s Cave

There was a buzz about a new ABC series, “Lost”, created by JJ Abrams (of “Alias”) on an A/V message board I frequent. It sounded good, so I had my TiVo record the series, and we’ve finally watched the second half of the 2-hour pilot last night.
The show being promising is not my concern [...]

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In the middle of the October 2004 issue of Communications of the ACM, there was a peculiar-looking insert titled “GLAT: Google Labs Aptitude Test”. It had a very official looking format and was a fairly well-made mock-up test.
It was fun and all that, but it somehow reminded me of what Microsoft used to do [...]

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I first heard about this book on NPR (as usual). Although I thought the joke was a bit weak, I liked the concept of the book. The book was not like a reference book on punctuation although it describes several usage rules for some punctuation marks; it was more like a collection of [...]

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