http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/0620233/Atlas-Vs-Sonic-Boom-Made-Visible-By-Sundog Awesome video. Rainbow waves in the sky.
February 22, 2010
February 18, 2010
2/18
“I used to think it would take a global financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, who was a fiscal policy adviser to Senate Republican leaders and a witness to past bipartisan budget summits. “These days I wonder if this country is even governable.”
February 16, 2010
2/16
http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/ Neat article looking at the “overwhelming” effect of media, across many years.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592405525?ie=UTF8&tag=geekdad0320&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1592405525 “Geek Dad” book. Geeky projects and activities for dads and kids to share.
http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ Comparing the value of the US Dollar, 1774 to present.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. – George F. Will
February 4, 2010
December 28, 2009
12/28
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out – Neal Stephenson
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dieselciviltrust/iODX/~3/AXoFJ17VS50/301805841
Maybe the US doesn’t have it right, but it looks like non-Nationalized healthcare works pretty well for Mexico. Need to dig deeper into exactly what is included in all the costs, specifically infrastructure.
NYSE:DDR
Research
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesimpledollar/~3/c0QSI2RVLJ0/
“Little Book” reviews of Jason Zweig’s books.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/12/santa_claus_tec.html?cid=nl_IW_daily_2009-12-29_h
Santa Claus, Technology Propagandist
http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/state/state-p1.html
Andreas’ History of the State of Nebraska. Ran across this page while looking for the source of “equality before the law” motto and its supposed originator, Mr. Isaac Wiles, representative in the 2nd Legislature ( from http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/writingareportonnebraska.asp).
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1931256/GSM-Decryption-Published
Your phone calls, decrypted. This is actually “a good thing”. Now cellular operators have real, demonstrable proof that their algorithm is not secure. It opens them to liability, which they don’t like, and makes the cost of doing nothing potentially greater than the cost of fixing the problem.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE54E4EZ20090515
Need to read it, but I suspect it’s reminiscent of the administration’s plan to emulate the costs and risks involved in EU socialist healthcare ventures.
December 24, 2009
12/24
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
Found the audiobook at http://www.librivox.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon%27s_Rule#Dillon.27s_Rule
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/windows-7-and-ipv6-useful-at-last/
http://itexpertvoice.com/ad/directaccess-and-the-vpn-dragon/
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/submission/1136438/Music-by-natural-selection
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RayUr4OEOV0/Simulation-o f-Close-Asteroid-Fly-By
December 23, 2009
12/23
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/6845967/
There’ll -be-nowhere-to-run-from-the-new-world-government.html tl;dr. Read it later.
BAMA.TO Not a URL, though it’s curious.