Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Dell reaches road's end

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I recommended a computer to a friend made by a company called  " PCs Limited ". They were built by a kid in Texas who’d started bu...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Google: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 3rd edition

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I wrote my first Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January of 2009 and the second in November 2009 . It's interesting to look ba...
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How could Krugman be wrong?

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Paul Krugman, the Cassandra* of our era, is getting ready to delcare “ The Third Depression ”, a long interval of @ 10% unemployment and slo...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Paul Dirac on the surprising history of the Schrodinger wave equation

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SciAm is republishing a terrific 1963 essay by a famed physicist, back when Scientific American graphics included serious math. Here Dirac i...
Friday, June 25, 2010

China's water army and my e-cigarette post

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A post I wrote on unregulated (Chinese, but really, everything is) electronic cigarettes received a lot of curiously phrased comments. I wo...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Churches of the Singularity - is Horgan truly an unbeliever?

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Once upon a time if you put two phone handsets together, speaker to microphone, you get a massive burst of positive feedback . Each handset ...

The bicyclist’s panopticon

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Sometime in the next ten years, there will be a thumb sized bell on the left side of my rear bicycle rack – and perhaps another on the right...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Beyond the first cause: Deepwater Horizon and the publicly traded company

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Airplane crashes, the Great Recession , amputating the wrong limb, and the Deepwater Horizon eruption all have one thing in common -- layer...

Deepwater Horizon spill and the gulf

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If the gulf were my bathtub, how much oil would I add to equal the BP spill of 2010? Let's say BP spills 5 million liters of oil. Sinc...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Devalue the Yuan or I shoot my economy

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If China doesn't devalue the Yuan, Europe will shoot its economy ... BBC News - Obama warns G20 leaders on budget cuts ... The governmen...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

AT&T Contracts, Terms of Service and Plan Terms – observations of interest

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I visited my local AT&T store today to confirm that AT&T iPhone pre-ordering is done. They’ll have some phones in store 6/24 for tho...

Barack Obama – better appreciate him while you can

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The inestimable Gail Collins says it best (emphases mine): …. We are frustrated, too, and it’s possible that Obama may never be able t...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Email domains in the non-geek world

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There are 14 non-employer email addresses in my son's baseball team roster: AOL: 2 Yahoo: 4 Comcast: 4 Hotmail/MSN: 3 Gmail: 1 (me...

Strongest sign of economic recovery

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The mass flow "investor" is buying gold ... Worried About Their Dollars, More Are Turning to Gold - NYTimes.com . Forget every oth...

Why dog haters should love prosecution of animal cruelty

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Unsurprisingly, people who abuse animals are also dangerous to humans ... The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome - NYTimes.com : ... significant reason...