Technology
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Blowin’ in the wind
The cheap veneer seems to be gradually peeling off the whole wind energy enterprise. The Dutch are finding it to be financially demanding, Californians in the Tehatchipi area are incensed at the idea, The Duke of Edinburgh calls them a disgrace, and over 14,000 windmills have been flat abandoned here in the US. In spite Read more
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Full employment for data miners?
This doofus seems to think that OWS sympathizers can strike a blow against Corporate Greed by filling bank card postage reply envelopes with leaflets and ballast and posting them back to the bank. Said doofus thinks the Evil Bank People will have their feet nailed to the floor when confronted by a tsunami of People’s Read more
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Weekly geekery
Statistics Taking the bias out of crowd counting. (Tip from the Geek Press) A bad vita trumps bad statistics. (Outraged tip from The Endeavour) Doing statistical graphics? Worry about color. (Tip from the Endeavour) Security Typosquatting. (Tip from the Geek Press) Food and Drink We took my sister-in-law out to dinner at Il Sogno a Read more
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Weekly geekery
My buddy Jaime is always reminding me of cool stuff I see on the web, but forget to pass on. I’m trying to improve. Everyday math Fibonacci sequences — you do the math. (Tip from CBS News). How algorithms shape our world (Tip from The Endeavour). The powers of ten, as applied to the national Read more
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Use the Cloud at your peril
Microsoft ‘fesses up to what everyone with half a brain knew already: Uncle Sam, wielding the Patriot Act*, can glom on to any and all of your data stored out on the Cloud. Not to mention assorted hackers, rogue server-farm employees, implausibly denied oriental cyberwarriors, and careless mooks who misplace laptops full of unauthorized downloads. Read more
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It’s almost like…
…the Federal tax credits for electric vehicles were just a device to shift the tax burden from GE and some fat dealerships onto the general public. Screw saving the planet; coal-powered cars weren’t going to do that anyway. A cynic would say that all this Greenie stuff is just another multimillion dollar scam. Tip from Read more
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Citation Networks, visualized
Check out this great visualization of the citation linkages in the sciences. Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more
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Soon we may be smuggling light bulbs in from South Carolina
It’s a good measure of how messed up this country has become that something like South Carolina’s Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act is even intelligible, let alone sensible. Tip from the Instapundit, as portrayed by Ed Driscoll. Read more
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I gotta get busy on my lecture videos!
On his Forbes blog, Jerry Bowyer espies an Internet iceberg dead ahead of Titanic U. …you and your iPod (or desktop) can listen to the smartest people in the world give interesting lectures on the most important topics for free, or you can pay lots of money to hear an inarticulate and resentful grad student Read more
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