links for 2007-03-20

Wired 15. 03: Interview with the author of I Am a Strange Loop "The work was the inimitable Gödel, Escher, Bach, and its creator, Douglas Hofstadter, stunned the world with his zany, in-depth, and utterly brilliant investigation of self-reference in art and mathematics. .
  • "The work was the inimitable Gdel, Escher, Bach, and its creator, Douglas Hofstadter, stunned the world with his zany, in-depth, and utterly brilliant investigation of self-reference in art and mathematics. ...to make his point perfectly clear, he has e
  • "Allan Brandt, a Harvard professor, has written a history of the cigarette in America. It runs from the automatic rolling machine, patented by James Bonsack in 1881, to last year's retreat by the Bush administration in a case that was intended to make the