Gordon's Notes

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

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Peak Oil 2005?

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FuturePundit: 2005 Seen As Oil Supply Tipping Point : Commentary in Nature: Can economy bear what oil prices have in store? Stop wranglin...
Monday, January 30, 2012

World without winter - Minnesota edition

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Our yearly nordic ski event has run aground . Today's City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation newsletter wins the brave face prize... ... ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

What I do

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I have written about 10,000 blog posts, but I've not said much about myself . This is an exception. Please feel free to skip it. I'...

GTD: Email to task with Toodledo

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There are a lot of things I don't love about Toodledo . I really, for example, dislike their lack of full text search. It's good th...

GTD: grouping tasks into Projects using Context with ToDo.app and Toodledo

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Emily and I started using Appigo's ToDo.app on our iPhones years ago. In those days Toodledo didn't have an iPhone app and ToDo didn...

GTD: Creating a project vs. editing a persistent task

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Both Appigo ToDo (app/web) and Toodledo Pro (app/web) have the idea of a "project" that can contain subtasks. For small projects ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

CSS was a terrible mistake

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It is fashionable to talk about the "wisdom of crowds" and the power of crowd sourcing. There's always a flip-side. That...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

CEO Compensation: Apple and more

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Apple's Tom Cook isn't the worst example of excessive CEO compensation , but his huge stock option grant is bad news all the same. ...
Monday, January 09, 2012

Wisdom summarized - Elders speak

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Most "wisdom" essays are pretty obvious, but this one has some science to it. Curiously I agree with much of it, but I can see ho...
Sunday, January 08, 2012

Do whipworms make dogs eat dirt?

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The canine whipworm ( Trichuris vulpis ) is a common dog parasite. The juvenile form of the parasite develops in dirt; it's transmitted...

Rule 34 by Charlie Stross - my review

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I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Divorcing Google - and hoping for GoogleMinus

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Google hired a hit man , and was shocked to find bodies. Now the remnants of Google 1.0 are punishing Google 2.0 , though Matt Cutts hasn...

Does earlier menarche explain the growing girl-boy academic gap?

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Firstly, the age of menarche in Western nations has been declining... Secular trends in age at menarche... [Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 20...
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Another one of our victims speaks

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Another victim of America's Inquisition : Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor - Murat Kurnaz - NYTimes.com … was taken to Kandahar, in A...
Friday, January 06, 2012

Can Apple produce first class software?

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I use most of what Apple makes. Their hardware design is top notch. Their iOS and OS X systems are better than the competitions. Nobody beat...
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