August 3, 2009
Olbermann's special comment on heath care politics
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August 3, 2009
Dave and I were sitting in the back yard of the cabin on Cape Cod, having a beer and watching something get cooked on the grill. Dave was an architectural engineer, and the cabin was in an interior location probably in Dennis or Harwich (can't remember ... I spent a lot of time in cabins on Cape…
August 3, 2009
It turns out that our president is totally African. How cool is that? No wonder he's so much less stupid than the average American (as you know, Westerners tend to be dumbed down quite a bit by their stupid culture).
Well, OK, the second part of what I just said is true, but the first part isn'…
August 3, 2009
Remember the election, when Republican political leaders such as Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh (The heart and brains of the party) and Michele Bachmann (whom I shall not attempt to define) encouraged their followers to be violent? Well, it is happening again, only this time in relation to opposing…
August 3, 2009
Photo Synthesis is a rotating showcase of the best science photography on the web....
B.N. (Bobbie) Sullivan has a strong affinity for the sea and everything in it. She first learned to dive in 1970 and has since logged thousands of dives. A wish to document the marine life she encountered prompted…
August 3, 2009
A fake Automatic Teller Machine set up in a hotel lobby can collect PIN's, account information, even credit card numbers. This is why you should be careful where you stick your card. In a moment of great irony, one such machine was set up in the hotel at a conference hosting 8,000 security…
August 3, 2009
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The USGS gives details of two earthquakes in the Baja region, Mexico.
At UTC 18:33 a 5.0 quake seems to have occurred at 28.931°N, 113.022°W, which is in the Gulf of California (a.k.a. Sea of Cortez) near and south of the island Angel de la Guarda. The second and larger quake, a 6.0 (…
August 3, 2009
There is now a very simple way to make your own GNU/Linux distribution, called a "linux appliance," at SUSE.
SUSE is a Linux Distribution produced by Novell. It is one of the earlier distributions to make a sustained and effective effort to put Linux on your desktop. Perhaps even on your…
August 3, 2009
And now, for another installment in our series: How The Loon Terns, an exercise in skeptical thinking using Loons as a waterbird touchstone. (In case you missed it, the previous installment was here.)
Common Knowledge: Loons are driven off lakes by boaters. The literature from the 1970s and…
August 2, 2009
Solar energy customers are worried a new fee proposed by Xcel Energy would punish new customers for getting solar panels.
The monthly fee, which would pay for distribution and transmission of energy, would go into effect in April 2010 and would have to be paid to Xcel, regardless of whether the…
August 2, 2009
Over at Linux in Exile: Have a look.
August 2, 2009
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August 2, 2009
From Peep Research:
We all know that Peeps are light, fluffy, and filled with air. This of course begs the question, "What happens to Peeps in a vacuum?" (Surely you were about to ask the same thing, right?)
Details here
August 2, 2009
btrfs (pronounced as in the title) is the next gen linux file system (you can tell it is a file system because it ends in "fs" which means "File-related stuff."
Valerie Aurora nee Henson gives us "....a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of btrfs on many levels - technical,…
August 2, 2009
This is the continuation of a discussion of loons, skeptically viewed. I am not skeptical about loons themselves. I know they exist. In fact, I just spent the last half hour watching Mom and Dad loon (whom I cannot tell apart, by the way) feeding Junior I and Junior II (whom I also cannot tell…
August 1, 2009
A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
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August 1, 2009
AlaskaReport has learned this morning that Todd Palin and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are to divorce. Multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage have confirmed the news.
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UPDATE: Meg Stapleton, Palin's spokesperson, totally denies divorce rumors.
And to commemorate almost one year of…
August 1, 2009
I've been thinking about loons lately. This is not hard do do because every time I turn around there is a loon either watching me fish, yodeling off in the distance, flying overhead, or feeding its babies just off to my right as I sit here writing stuff. This year, the pair of loons that lives in…
August 1, 2009
On this day in 1971, on the second day of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, astronauts dug up a really old rock which, of course, they named "The Genesis Rock"
Details here.
August 1, 2009
Two years ago today, on a weekday afternoon during rush our, the Interstate 35W bridge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed into the Mississippi river. Thirteen people died and about 145 people suffered injuries.
At the time this happened, Amanda, Julia and I were in the Green Kalahari in…
July 31, 2009
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And then things went rather badly...
July 31, 2009
Berry Go Round, the blog carnival about plants, is up an running here at quiche moraine
July 31, 2009
(The fastest computer is the same thing but running a better operating system.)
Hat tip: Joe, copied from here.
July 30, 2009
"Here," dad to girl, "Get your ID out and have it with your ticket."
"Excuse me, sir," said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, "She does not need to have her ID out, she's a minor."
Dad: "How do you know she's a minor if you don't look at her ID?"
.... (silence as everyone waits for…
July 29, 2009
Yes! And one of the top staff of that department just sent PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance a letter warning them to behave on their upcoming trip to the Creation Museum.
I hope every single one of those overtly homosexual visiting heathens is armed. With a Flip. I have one I can loan…
July 29, 2009
It is decided. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has met, ruminated, voted, and now decrees that pregnant women, health care workers, and children over six months old will be vaccinated first. The reason we even need to worry about this is that there will not be nearly enough flu…
