Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Obamacare. Wait. It's not over.

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Birthers . Tea baggers. Deathers. Glen Beck inspired assassin wannabes. The weak dancing to their amoral master's tunes. Elders at town ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

The evolution of comment spam - from parasite to symbiote?

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Lately I've been getting blog comments that blur the spam/non-spam species boundary. Comment spam used to be pretty clear. It would be u...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

OS X 10.6 - do you feel lucky punk? Do you?

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I need to use my machines. So I'm the kind of geek who likes to, barring the addition of a new non-critical machine, wait 6-18 months be...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Building a mutual fund company - in 3 panels

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Dilbert.com - Too true .
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Yeah, Cheney/Bush used the orange alerts to scare up votes

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As suspected, despite fervent Bush admin denials, Cheney Bush used the "terror alert" scheme to scare up votes prior to Bush/Kerry...
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The Google Voice story: It was Apple, not AT&T

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As all true geeks know, a few weeks ago Apple purged the iPhone app catalog of all Google Voice apps, including GV Mobile . Apple then reje...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Conde Nast's latest spam ploy - Axciom's Delivery.net

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Conde Nast, publishers of Gourmet and other periodicals, holds a place of dishonor among the world's scummiest spammers . It will be a ...

The check engine light in the mobile net era

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We're on day two of a two week family road trip and our 2000 Mazda MPV Van check engine light comes on. On a Sunday. Once upon a time, t...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

One possible strategic error in the Obama reform

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In his NYT essay Obama talks about making medicare more efficient . I wonder why his team chose to tie insurance reform and access to any ki...
Friday, August 14, 2009

The CDC's vaccine data mess - please help them out

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This page is how America distributes the data set that's supposed to represents all the vaccine information used in electronic health r...

American Express credit card information theft

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We just received official notification that our AMEX credit card information was stolen. Inside job, as usual. Same old, same old. I'm a...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Galaxies like stars in the sky

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There's an antidote to reading about the Cheney torture program and the GOP's insurance-company funded attack on health insurance re...

Inmate Kyle Foggo – Creator of the post-2003 torture facilities

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It looks like the Obama administration will investigate and prosecute senior CIA officials who broke American law.  In the meanwhile CIA o...
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Oddities of modern video – frame rates and more

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We have two CRTs on which “we” (meaning the kids) watch Netflix DVDs and local broadcast TV sports. The DVD display is a 15 yo SONY CRT. It ...

Health insurance reform – 8 points to repeat and repeat

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It will be useful to keep this list at hand and repeat it often … The White House - Blog Post - The Return of the Viral Email … 8 w...
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