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The Home-Built Dark Knight Batmobile 87

ElectricSteve writes "RM Auctions recently declared James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 to be 'the world's most famous car,' but there's no doubt that there is another contender for that title — the Batmobile. One thing that muddies the waters a bit is the fact that the term 'Batmobile' actually describes at least three different vehicles: the modified Lincoln Futura concept car from the '60s TV series, the vaguely Corvette-shaped 1989-and-beyond movie cars, and now the car from the most recent two movies, the military-spec Tumbler. Michigan-based movie props artist Bob Dullam really likes the Tumbler, so he did what any of us would do in his position — he built one of his own from scratch."

Comment Re:Is LaTeX worth it for humanities/soc. sciences? (Score 1) 328

You need to think about who your future collaborators are going to be (perhaps a too hard question). I used LaTeX for my thesis, but I've never collaborated with anyone that uses it. The guy in the next office does, but we've never collaborated. He's a unix boy, so they use Open Office. If you'll enjoy the challenge, then go for it, but unless you're in an area where it's commonly used, it's not that useful :(

Comment Re:The standard? (Score 1) 328

Ah, but the biomedical field endnotes. Complicated in-text citations (e.g., APA) are another reason for using LaTeX (and particularly Bibtex). Because of collaboration, I now solely use Word and Endnote for writing manuscripts, and while Endnote has some great features (principally its intergration with other ISI Thompson products like Web of Knowledge), it's support for in-text citations, as opposed to endnoting, is poor relative to the -tex solution.

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