February 2008
98 posts
January 2008
60 posts
Rat-eating plant discovered in Cape York →
Extraordinary pictures of the alphabet - spelled... →
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Learning survival with the US Air Force →
I went. I listened to lectures. I had fresh rabbit stew. I hiked (a lot). I got picked up by helicopter. I directed a helicopter. I got my butt beat. I loved it.
WatchMarch of Democracy
Getting rid prepositions →
“There have been proposals reducing and improving English years and years. One these was eliminate the past tense, example. Years failure have shown us that this is little value. It’s not feasible do this. We can’t neglect what’s happened the past. But the use prepositions is hardly important. One thing, they’re difficult children learn and non-native speakers have lots trouble them. As me,...
FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft →
“This is more than another Akamai or even an Akamai on steroids. This is a...”
– Google-Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
“When you have a private company counting 80% of the votes, and you later learn...”
– NH Contest: Diebold miscounts reported across many candidates, wards, in first day of election contest hand counts
WatchVideo: CES: Bill Gates Gives SciAm a Personal Tour of Surface
It's the right thing to do: Oatmeal even better... →
“It gives me great comfort to notice that good law is a lot like good science....”
– Pure Pedantry : Read This Book: Stem Cell Century by Russell Korobkin
Can we extend life 10-fold through... →
EFF tries to quash labels' "making available"... →
The music labels’ case against Jeffrey and Pamela Howell has taken on mythic dimensions over the last few weeks after the Washington Post went a little nuts and implied that the labels were suing the couple for making personal rips of their CDs (it later corrected the story). The truth is that Howells are being sued for having those rips in a shared KaZaA folder. But lost in the controversy...
Researchers create beating heart in lab →
WatchBreitbart.tv » ‘Uniformed’ Robber Hauls $325k From DC Bank — Across the Street From FBI HQ
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The New Bush Coins, Minted In a Variety of Gallon Denominations)
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Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In... →
FCC May Fine Comcast Up To $1.77 Trillion →
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced today that a coaltion of consumer groups and legal scholars had asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against certain types of data. The two groups also asked the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 per affected subscriber. I’ll give you a second to digest that. I went through the article from the AP wire a couple times, and I somehow...
To See the Future of the Recording Industry,... →
Three major labels — Vivendi’s Universal, Warner Music and EMI — last year started selling DRM-free music online, with Sony BMG widely expected to soon follow suit. And today, Napster said it will soon start selling music downloads as unprotected MP3 files. The industry is hastily reinventing itself as it comes to terms with the uncomfortable realization that companies like Apple and Amazon own...
