Monthly Archives: August 2009
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How Late Blight came to be such a disaster and other things you might want to know.
Relatively harmless right now. But wait until the cost of health really starts to bring down the government. Then this foot in the door will be expanded.
How a Differential Works
I thought this was a great explanation of what a car’s differential is and how it works.
via videosift.com
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Pictures that make the Gurkhas look like warriors and the English like yuppies with guns.
The new Robin Hoods. It may be a crime, but the poor will thank them.
To bad the fish are all gonna die.
Edit: Almost forgot this one.
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Old News. But don’t miss the part on the end about raising fuel taxes. No tax like a regressive tax.
Not just the Chinese. It is also one of the reasons that banks are not lending to other people.
Most of you already saw this on Bit’er Pitter. But those that did not should not miss it.
Some sad news. At least for the nerds amongst us, there was no better source of hard data and, for that, almost any opinion he had could be tolerated.
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Can the man do nothing right? You would think it would be in his own best interest to get this one right.
Who would have ever thunk that it would get this cheap? Granted it is only low earth orbit. Still, it seems too good to be true.
If a computer game is featured in the NY Times, you know it is bad. You could almost fool oneself into thinking that it would be fun to play the game until you get to the end of the review.
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Poem of the Week: 8/2/09-8/8/09
The Survivor by Primo Levi is this week’s poem of the week.
Rant of the Week: 8/2/09-8/8/09
This week’s rant of the week is on one of the more common ways of lying with statistics.