“If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pre...” — Nathan Myhrvold Quote

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Sometimes it's put me in foul trouble, but more times than not, I'm going to be that guy to come over and block the shots.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I've been around the block.

I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

A pair of glass hoops or block heels is a super cool way to bring out the nude color.