BKBSTJIR.RVW  940524

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"The Best of The Journal of Irreproducible Results", Scherr, 1983, 0-89480-595-
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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
 
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