Archive for September, 2011
Posted in September 30th, 2011
Remember just a few years ago when it was considered illegal, immoral and just plain creepy for the US Government to assassinate people? Now Barack Obama quite literally brags about it. And not a single one of those braying Bush=Hitler celebrities has come out against this. No. I’m not surprised.
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Posted in September 30th, 2011
So… as I understand it Solyndra was producing far more solar panels than they could sell. The reports I am seeing indicate that their warehouses were overflowing with unpurchased solar panels while the factory was still churning out more. So… shouldn’t that mean the market will soon be flooded with cheap solar panels when they [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2011
The tablet wars are finally heating up! Putting to rest the endless speculation, Amazon on Wednesday officially introduced not one, not two, but four new Kindle devices. The company aims to lock up the e-reader market with an entry-level $79 Kindle, and to do what countless tech companies have failed at: building a color tablet [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2011
Google Maps helped a Chicago man target as many as nine suburban homes for break-ins since March, police said. via Police: Burglar used Google Maps to case upscale suburban homes – Chicago Sun-Times. I think I would sue Google if I were one of those eight houses.
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Posted in September 28th, 2011
“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that,” Perdue said. “You want people who don’t worry about [...]
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Posted in September 26th, 2011
I’m sure all of you have seen the T-shirt or poster of Albert Einstein wearing a police hat with his hand up saying: “299,792,458 m/s… not just a good idea, it’s the LAW”. Well, it seems that some neutrinos are breaking the speed limit. My gut reaction to this is that this is probably just [...]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2011
… “more origami”… On my gaming blog… Here’s a taste…
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Posted in September 20th, 2011
If you get your news from the NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC and/or NPR, you may never have even heard of “Gun-Walker.” But you will. The modern American political scandal benchmark is Watergate. This is clear when every new scandal has “-gate” added to it. Democrats still crow about how evil Richard Nixon was because [...]
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Posted in September 19th, 2011
So, as part of my ongoing novel writing class, we were assigned to write a certain number of pages each week (which I am well ahead of) and to read one book on writing novels (I’m about halfway through) and to read at least one book in the genre in which we are attempting to [...]
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Posted in September 16th, 2011
Fascinating article. But not surprising. The GW Bush revealed in this portrait is pretty much exactly the GW Bush I had imagined in my own mind. The following quote from GW I find particularly revealing. “When I got elected governor and president, history gave me a chance to study the decisions of my predecessors,” Bush [...]
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