Landis Vinchattle An aggregation.

March 24, 2010

3/24

Filed under: Government,Quotes,Rights,Technology — Tags: , — Landis V @ 2:12 pm

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.

March 19, 2010

3/19

Filed under: Software,Technology — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:25 pm

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.

March 18, 2010

3/18

Filed under: Mathematics,Science — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:26 pm

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

March 12, 2010

3/12

Filed under: Science,Technology — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:24 pm

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.

March 11, 2010

3/11

Filed under: Healthcare,Politics — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:17 pm

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.

March 5, 2010

3/5

Filed under: Economics,Technology — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:15 pm

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

March 4, 2010

3/4

Filed under: Government,Language,Quotes,Technology — Tags: — Landis V @ 2:27 pm

“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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