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Google, a young Microsoft?

30-Sep-04

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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The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

18-Mar-03

Whew… That took long… Ever since I heard about the term “Campbellian Myth” (in the way of “Star Wars”), I’ve been meaning to read some of Joseph Campbell’s works. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, it seems that Campbell looked at various myths from all over the world and found some commonalities and patterns [...]

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