Actual page number of "page 16" in the November 2003 National Geographic magazine

Page 76.

In his book Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Paul Fussell provides a scoresheet that helps you determine your class in American society based on the type of car you drive, the number of foreign languages you speak or understand, and, most interestingly among other factors, the particular magazines you subscribe to (if any). A higher score got you closer to his Nirvana—"Class X", consisting principally of people like Paul Fussell, it seemed to me.

In any case, a subscription to National Geographic magazine counted for -1 point, I remember.

Minot, North Dakota

Originally uploaded by nfolkert.

Looks like Minot is the place to go.

"Minot. Why not?"

The bad move aesthetic

As I said above, and someone else commented in the Internet message board thread that inspired this column, "It's harder to write a bad chess program than it is to write a good one".

Now that desktop computer chess programs push every single human (even the best Grandmasters) off the board in the most brutal way, people want them to screw up, intentionally, instead. It's more fun to play them if you know you have at least chance to win.

But please, Mr Program, don't screw up in a stupid way. Do it nicely...make me think you're trying...

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