Gordon's Notes

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

Monday, June 06, 2005

Will a volunteer army fight the Forever War?

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US Officers Plot Exit Strategy from the Open-Ended 'War on Terror' (LA Times 5/22) The Forever War was a classic science fiction sto...

Internal exile: the fate of those who fall

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In a Transparent Society those who carry the scarlet letter are doomed to internal exile: Barred From the Long Haul - New York Times ... R...
Sunday, June 05, 2005

Fixing Consumer Reports: what would I do?

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I wrote earlier about where I think Consumer Reports is failing to deliver value: Faughnan's Notes: Consumer Reports: the paradox of a c...

Consumer Reports: the paradox of a consumer organization that hates its customers

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Consumer Reports Ratings and recommendations available at ConsumerReports.org This would be funny, if it weren't so irritating. I think ...
Saturday, June 04, 2005

Self-replicating device -- another step on the road

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CNN.com - The machine that can copy anything - Jun 2, 2005 A device that can supposedly create some of its own most critical components....
Friday, June 03, 2005

Apple has crummy server performance?

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AnandTech: No more mysteries: Apple's G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux A very technical analysis finds the G5 to be a reasonable...

Neandertal shall rise again

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Extinct cave bear DNA sequenced Sequencing cave bear DNA was the test case. The real focus is on Neandertal ...

Revenge of the Bell Curve: selection for IQ in European Jews

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Researchers Say Intelligence and Diseases May Be Linked in Ashkenazic Genes - New York Times ...Ashkenazi Jews occupied a different social n...

Omelettes not in America

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Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog. ... you may have accidentally happened upon a few bodies halfway across the world (Afwhat...

One gene, one gender preference

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For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation - New York Times Gender behavior in the fruit fly is specified with a single gene. ...

Coalition casualties in Iraq: tally, details and news

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I was thinking this morning of how little I know about what's going on in Iraq. It's a reasonably large, populous, and complex count...
Thursday, June 02, 2005

iPod battery settlement: $50?

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iPodlounge | Apple to offer $50 credit in iPod battery settlement Maybe. It's not clear this is official yet. Based on past exper...

Office 12's promised Open XML file format: I'll chew my hat.

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InformationWeek > Breaking News > Office 12 To Boost XML Support, Document Security > June 1, 2005 When Office 12 debuts next year,...

Washing keyboards -- in the dishwasher

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You CAN Put Your Keyboard in the Dishwasher This is an old practice -- clean out a dirty keyboard by washing it. I read of this practice...

Camera vendors of Brooklyn -- home of the "great deal"

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Central Digital, d.b.a. dBuys.com, IBuyDigital.com, IBuyPlasma.com, RealDealShop.com, DigitalMegaStore.com, and CentralDigital.com Brooklyn ...
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