Art Carde posits that, if we really cared about our great great…grandchildren, we would be better off spending our resources building ships to pread us throughout the galaxy. If environmental stewardship obligates us to be mindful of future generations in making our day-to-day decisions, what should we do? Should we be recycling paper and preventing [...]
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Don't Go For The Bananas
This story was part of a class I’m taking from my employer. I thought it was funny and a great lesson for lots of businesses. The story goes that a certain number of monkeys are placed in a large cage. From the ceiling of the cage hangs a bunch of bananas with a stepladder underneath. [...]
Annals of Democracy: The vote
The New Yorker has a very interesting article about the history of voting methods.
WTF, Over?
This story out of NC is funny. Thing is, WTF did not originate in the “Internet era.” I joined the Army in January 1989. The first thing a Drill Sargent yelled at us when we got to Fort Jackson was “WTF are you doing still on my bus?!?!” And I know it wasn’t a new [...]
chmod calculator
So there’s something up with this script not wanting to run on the blog. The chmod calculator can be found http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/chmodcal.shtml I’m about to show Valerie just how big of a geek she’s marrying Sunday. Below is an app to figure out the correct chmod values. If you know what that is then this will [...]
NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star
NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star More comments later.
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Oh Hillary…
From this article. “At the rate that technology is advancing, people will be implanting chips in our children to advertise directly into their brains and tell them what kind of products to buy,” Clinton said at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.
Hell defined
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well: Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) [...]
