Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 14:36:33 EST From: "Rob Slade, Ed. DECrypt & ComNet, VARUG rep, 604-984-4067" Subject: "The Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results" by Scherr BKBSTJIR.RVW 940524 Workman Publishing Company, Inc. 708 Broadway New York, NY 10003 "The Best of The Journal of Irreproducible Results", Scherr, 1983, 0-89480-595- 9, U$10.95 The Journal of Irreproducible Results has been reporting those experiments which can't (or shouldn't) be reproduced, since 1955. (For those unfamiliar with JIR, MINI-JIR is a new mailing list which will give you a taste.) Unfortunately for this series, this set of selections (up to 1983) contains no computer related articles. (There is, in the small listing of unintentionally funny announcements and notices, a reproduction of a note regarding a seminar on fuzzy logic--which can't seem to nail down the facts.) However, it is evident that JIR has had an enormous impact on various computer nets. I recognized "Bovinity", "National Geographic: The Doomsday Machine", "Let's Make a Nuclear Device!", "Notes Upon a Whopper", "Impure Mathematics", and "Memo to Moses from HEW", from net postings. No matter what your field, however, JIR is an important source of perspective, and the Best of JIR is a guaranteed giggle. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKBSTJIR.RVW 940524 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "A ship in a harbour Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | is safe, but that is Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | not what ships are User p1@CyberStore.ca | built for." Security Canada V7K 2G6 | John Parks