Archive for March, 2010

3/24

Posted March 24, 2010 By Landis V

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-Online Full text of ACTA.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhoE4n4Idxs/Drunk-Histoy-Presents-Nikola-Tesla-NSFW Looks interesting. Worth checking out sometime.

“Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest. Scoff at none although they give Occasion.” — The Papers of George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour Something to work on.

http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596654&cid=31626326 Superb.

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/61.html How Fibre Lasers Work, includes a layman’s explanation of excited electron decay.

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3/19

Posted March 19, 2010 By Landis V

http://www.predictioneersgame.com/ Cool. I was just thinking about something like this this morning, modeling real-world events on game theory to see where they might lead. Very interesting.

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3/18

Posted March 18, 2010 By Landis V

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong The problems scientists have with statistics.

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3/12

Posted March 12, 2010 By Landis V

http://solarstormwatch.com/ Help scientists analyze images of the sun in hope of recognizing solar flares to provide advance warning of possible solar EMF storms.

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3/11

Posted March 11, 2010 By Landis V

http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/13889/assemblyman-seeking-to-ban-all-salt-in-restaurant-cooking/ Somewhere in New York, people were apparently somehow compelled to vote for this… not very bright, poorly informed dipstick.  If people actually intentionally voted for this dolt, it’s no wonder Dems think America needs this stupid healthcare bill.

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3/5

Posted March 5, 2010 By Landis V

http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson34.htm Neat info site with periodic table and chem. Information.

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge313.html Predictions and thoughts from David Gelernter who, apparently, predicted the Internet and cloud computing.  Interesting reading.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory Sweet.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf Buffett’s annual letter

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3/4

Posted March 4, 2010 By Landis V

“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.” — Rita Mae Brown

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WAIIm73Kd3k/Researchers-Find-Way-To-Zap-RSA-Algorithm

http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/03/04/oh-so-thats-why-you-want-to-tax-gasoline/

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