Danny    Thompson,    Freelance    Copywriter


The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.

Archive for March, 2006

Somebody found the question…

Monday, March 27th, 2006

According to this article, Douglas Adams is right: 42 is the answer.
The question? What is the relationship between prime numbers and quantum physics.
(via Core Dump )

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Copywriters…

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

…or copywriters-in-training, or wannabe copywriters–heck, anyone and everyone:
Go to MarkFenske.com and read until your eyes fall out of your head from exhaustion. Even if he’s not writing to you specifically, there is good stuff here that you need to think about.
Yes, he’s weird. And he’s got great reasons why you should be weird, too. […]

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Cool random fact:

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

What is one of the coolest engineering feats of the 21st century? Well, let’s say you have two canals that almost meet…except there is a 35 meter difference in height? How do you get ships from the lower canal up to the top canal (or vice versa)?
Well, the good folks of Scotland came up […]

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On a Science Kick This Morning

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

And here’s what I’ve seen so far:
Chrashing the Mars Party: aerobraking? Wait–isn’t this similar to the way Fred stops his car with his feet?
The Big Picture: really big. Like 16,000 by 12,000 pixels.
Cool New Career Path: space archeologist.
A City Buried Alive: and what it could mean for us.
It’s Cancer: and its contagious.
For Your Health: time […]

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