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Compelling article on some of the mysteries of science. Sometimes I come across people who seem to think of science in dogmatic terms. They argue against anything which is not supported by scientific evidence. In my eyes that is turning things upside down. If we can't prove it with science it doesn't mean it is not there, is false or is bogus. Here are some good examples of scientific evidence which cannot be explained by regular science - so far. New Scientist 13 things that do not make sense - Features Nobody knows. Some possible explanations have already been ruled out, including software errors, the solar wind or a fuel leak. If the cause is some gravitational effect, it is not one we know anything about. In fact, physicists are so completely at a loss that some have resorted to linking this mystery with other inexplicable phenomena.
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For any of you that may be reading this via RSS, the change from Movable Type to WordPress means that the RSS feed for selling waves is now located at http://www.sellingwaves.com/feed/ If you’re interested, that is.
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An article about 13 things that don't make sense is a nice reminder that we don't know as much as...
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| 23:20:03 March 17, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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I meant to mention this the other day... Audit: Halliburton Overcharged U.S. $100M: A military audit has found that defense contractor Halliburton may have overcharged the U.S. government more than $100 million under a no-bid oil contract in Iraq. The...
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I couldn't stand this being empty anymore, but I have nothing to say. Josh and Serena were here over the weekend and I took a few days off to go to Vegas. Up a few hundred but lost my digital camera and my blackberry. So, as with everything, some good some bad. I would have had pictures, but, you know, lost the camera. Right now some stripper is looking at pictures of the three of us. I can't really afford a new one, so no new pictures for me for a while.
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Are you sick of the straight and narrow? Turn the corner - gently - with CSS! Trenton explains a neat, compact way to integrate curves into your next design, with the help of some tricky CSS.
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Last year, I mentioned the OED looking for citations for sfnal words. The project has a new website. But, c’mon! Nancy Kress’ Probability Moon in 2000 as first citation for xenolinguist? According to the ISFDB, Sheila Finch’s Xenolinguist Guild stories date to 1989. Sheri Tepper’s Raising the Stones was 1990. And I’ll be very surprised if those are particularly early. (And if I had original editions on me, I’d do something useful and submit citations. I do have a ‘97 reprint of a ‘96 Finch story, though…) Despite my expectation that 1942 should be easy to beat for extraterrestrial as a noun, it looks like so far they’ve only pushed it back to 1941.
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Jeremy Kay for Screen Daily: Delegates from the Singaporean government's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) are negotiating with Hollywood studios for the first cross-continent digital transmission (CCTx) of a full-length feature. [more...]
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Once again I saw two more films tonight, both documentaries. The first was Occupation Dreamland. I'd heard from others who...
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James Mitchell reviews Hating Alison Ashley for Filmink. [www.filmink.com.au]
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It’s good to be sweating again. Sweating in the glorious late heat of March before what is effectively my third winter in a row descends upon us. I missed the better part of this summer because of that whole “world...
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Phil over at Signposts is looking for examples of Multi Congregational Churches and would like your help: 'I am wondering if you are in a Church that you would consider to be multi-congregational? Or maybe you know a Church...
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Richard Hoagland’s Moon with a View, or, What Did Arthur Know and When Did He Know It? is a fascinating examination of the preliminary photos of Iapetus, one of Saturn’s moons. Everything he sees is evidence for Iapetus being an artifact, fitting in with his thesis of there having been an ancient civilization on Mars (he’s probably best known for popularizing the Face on Mars.) Reading it, I was reminded of a passage in Illuminatus! (I’m not going to try to find it in a 900 page trilogy I read over twenty years ago.) A character is discussing numerological coincidences so incredible they start to sound convincing… and then the authors, Wilson and Shea, quickly took it over the top. The character was similarly blown away by meaningless coincidences — he first thought of this when he was 23! And he was living on Smith Street, which has 5 letters in it! As they did through much of the book, they were simultaneously advancing weird theories, and making fun of them. Hoagland’s article ...
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On February 7 at 11:45am, I crossed at a pedestrian crosswalk from the intersection of Broxton and Weyburn Avenues to Broxton and Le Conte. When I entered the crosswalk, the Walking Person icon was displayed on the pedestrian control signal, but quickly changed to a Flashing Hand. In response to this, I quickly ran across the street, correctly adhering to the California Department of Motor Vehicles Vehicle Code 21456b: ...any pedestrian who has partially completed crossing shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone or otherwise leave the roadway while the WAIT or DONT WALK or approved Upraised Hand symbol is showing. At that time I was pulled over by Officer Rivera, who was visibly agitated and said that I was making him look like a jackass by running in front of his police car to the opposing sidewalk. At that time I was at UCLA for treatment of a viral bronchitis and was not familiar with the text of Vehicle Code 21456, so wanting to get out of the cold, I asked ...
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| 22:31:18 March 17, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
Source: injection |
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The Girl with Butterfly, oil on canvas, 1979, continued Randolphlee's explorations of modern figurative compositions in the vein of other oils on canvas such as Condominium and Sleep...
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Avisen Vårt Land nektet å trykke reklame for Hedningesamfunnets "Allahs lille brune" men godtok lignende bøker som "Guds lille brune" og "Luthers lille brune." Disse bøkene inneholder sitater fra henholdvis Koranen/hadith, Bibelen og Luthers tekster. Argumentet fra Per Eriksen i Vårt Land for å godta religionskitikk av kristendommen men undertykke lignende kritikk av Islam var at en slik bok skaper rasisme og kunne være en 'skattekiste for nynazister.' Muslim og Islam-kritiker Walid al-Kubaisi bidro til "Allahs lille brune," og leverer en bredside mot Vårt Lands redaksjon og norsk integreringspolitikk: Per Eriksen og redaktør Lund er sannsynligvis påvirket av den politiske atmosfæren i Norge: Norsk innvandringspolitikk følger et kolonialistisk mønster som går ut på at staten integrerer miljøer, ikke individer. Dette skjer ved å forhandle med representanter for menigheter og muslimske organisasjoner. Miljøene omgir seg med gjerder; bygger grenser med mattradisjoner, halalkjøtt, ...
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So I have tried out couple more Palm blogging apps (HBlogger and Vagablog) and I still prefer mo:Blog. Although when...
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Netimperative - UK search engine market shares
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I was just talking about this at work the other day. HBO seems to always have several different series on Comcast's VOD menu, but Showtime usually only has a couple, and they don't rotate very often. But they've finally put...
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| 22:07:28 March 17, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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In the Great State of Kansas, teaching evolution was optional for a couple of years recently, and now they’re trying to worm creationism into the curriculum as Intelligent Design. With that sort of commitment to the biological sciences, is it any wonder that greyhounds are legally not dogs there?
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Rizzo, the first rat I ever held, in a picture taken three years ago. Rizzo was one of the two rats that my gf adopted several years ago that changed us into rat people. As I held her that...
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I’m happy to announce that version 0.7 of sparta.py, a simple API for RDF, is now available. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated. My goal for this release...
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Margaret mentioned her cousin's son, Paul -- I think that's technically a first cousin once removed -- who has a weblog at http://pjk.us . I didn't know you could get .us domain names at that level. Cool. A ColdFusion fan. Macromedia makes Flash, which powers a lot of the nice-looking animations on the web, and I gather that ColdFusion is a web server and development environment for developing websites, with good support for developing Flash-based or Flash-rich websites. I haven't done much with Flash, but I can see the appeal. Here is the ColdFusion FAQ. Macromedia is lucky to have Sean Corfield working for them. I met him a few times at the C++ standards meetings a decade ago. Macromedia started using the term "MX" a couple of years ago. My guess is that it stands for "More eXtreme". Their FAQ says: What is MX? We use "MX" to identify the new products that are part of the Macromedia MX product family. Each product that bears the MX mark is major new version. Together, the ...
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Now that the edits are checked into CVS, I guess I feel I can go ahead and post some screenshots of blojsom's new administration console. Click on the links for larger images. You'll notice nice new things like a box telling you who you're logged in as and to what site you're logged into. The look and feel blends in nicely with the default theme. Very eye pleasing. The sidebar is used for contextual help and displaying relevant information. Drop down menus for easy navigation. Hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts will make it into the final templates. It's damn smooth. And now that the UI is becoming more and more dynamic since I've got some hooks for that in the just released blojsom 2.24, expect to see even more sin-tilating integration! Come on ... you know you want to use blojsom! And finally, a special thanks to Jeremy Koempel over at smallTransport. He's the mastermind behind it all. Login screen Main Console Drop down Menus Permissions Plugins
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I personally like Airbus planes, especially the A340, but Risks Digest has given me a reason to avoid some of them; [A]fter (an earlier) disaster, more than 20 American...
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Man shoots cat, that’s not news. The 48-year-old firefighter from La Crosse has proposed that hunters in Wisconsin make free-roaming domestic cats an “unprotected species” that could be shot at will by anyone with a small-game license. Cat shoots man, now that’s news. A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging the weapon. (Via Vegan Porn)
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Bourbon Congratulations! You're 123 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (83), and liquor (104). Screw all...
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I've been putting on movies, first The Girl with the Pearl Earring, then Cold Mountain. During Cold Mountain, Daisy started barking. It was really cute. She was convinced there was something going on. Not. She's on drugs. The same drugs that are getting her up at 2:30 am every morning to get a drink, and at 4 to go potty. I think my Do is getting old. No more water after 10. I can't handle this getting up with her crap. But, I did finish one question of my midterm and I have the beginnings of all the others. YEAH! Maybe I'll finish another before bed. You never know. Aren't you proud? Yeah, I know you are...
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Ag... Silver You scored 42 Mass, 45 Electronegativity, 59 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity! Congratulations, you are one of the...
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i've suddenly found myself with a hefty handful of media to digest...rolling stone 970, the hunter s. thompson tribue issuean xvid hdtv rip of last night's "alias" [via]audio from evan, danny and merlin's etech talks [via]the bbc radio play of william gibson's "neuromancer" [via]it really doesn't look like that much of a pile until you take into account the run times... "neuromancer" is two hours long; the etech talks go for about an hour and forty minutes; "alias" is another forty minutes; and i can digest the rolling stone in about an hour.the thing is, my info sponge of a brain sort of wants to finish it all tonight. and it may seem antiquated, but i need to focus on one thing at a time to really absorb it. since i can't justify spending five and a half hours doing each individual task, i won't finish all of it. besides, seinfeld is on in a half an hour...updata: i took a sick day on friday, yet i still haven't been able to slog my way thru the radio play for "neuromancer". i'm ...
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