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Now to keep an appointment at the Genius Bar to see what’s up with thing and its misbehaving trackpad.
<grumble>
One more day of AppleCare, so time is of the essence.
Category: learning from my mistakes
links for 2006-11-05
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considering the production of cyanotypes in the rainy season, I was alerted to this page. UV LEDs might be no more difficult to get hold of than UV fluorescent or incandescents.
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my most recent purchase of these came in cardboard
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Magical thinking, part CXIIII: The same year George W. Bush was saying “take ‘im out” of Saddam Hussein during a campaign debate before the New Hampshire primary, the Army was estimating that it would take 400,000 troops to take and stabilize Iraq.
links for 2006-11-05
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PZ Myers lays out what the high density of churches really means for small towns. Rather than uniting a community, they split and fracture it along dogmatic lines, for no reason other than exclusion. What a waste.
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considering the production of cyanotypes in the rainy season, I was alerted to this page. UV LEDs might be no more difficult to get hold of than UV fluorescent or incandescents.
per user request
This came in over the transom today.
I couldn’t find any information beyond their name so I have edited that out.
But just as a point of order, the internets are not a private place. Comments left on weblogs are public in most cases, and this is no exception. Be discreet.
And why someone would contact someone from a link found here (that had no email address) when Google coughed up many others that were much more complete is a mystery.
links for 2006-10-31
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this post is preceded by five (5) demanding the impeachment of the incumbent and his coterie of malicious goons. Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . .
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This is a phrase I have used a million times and for the same reasons. How can a market-based economy be so unresponsive? put another way: what market counts most: Wall St or Main St?
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The identification criteria come as no surprise. My last fulltime job provided ample proof. I don’t agree with the How To Deal list: #3 and #5 assume some independent scoring which an asshole will never permit.
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isn’t this what we’re talking about here?
don’t say you weren’t warned.
Andart: Warning Signs for Tomorrow:
Memetic hazards: a black lightbulb to represent really bad ideas. Compare with the Science Related Memetic Disorder in A Miracle of Science. Of course, the line between preventing viral bad ideas from spreading and censorship is a fine one.Motivation hazards: as we learn to affect our brains better there is an increased risk for addictions, gain pleasure from something harmful or that we edit ourselves to like our current state no matter what. The poppy represents such motivation traps.
Exactly whatother kinds of hazards could occur with mature cognotechnologies is hard to imagine. The staircase sign represents a general hazard, perhaps the induction of inconsistent beliefs, infinite loops or mistaken perception.
Finally, a catch-all sign for things you really don’t want to mess with – existential risks implies threats to the future of humanity as a whole.
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links for 2006-10-20
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DOES TELEVISION CAUSE AUTISM?
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is B&W photography the absence of color or a different aesthetic? Discuss.
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it aired today, just one day later. Desperation or confidence?
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Wil Shipley takes the bait, chews it up, and spits it in the eye of its creator . . . .
but how many angels will fit in it?
Mark Frauenfelder: Artist Willard Wigan made a model of a house that fits on the head of a pin.
‘I spent 15 hours a day for seven weeks sculpting a minute piece of diamond. The beams are made out of floating fibres that you see in sunlight.
‘To paint the house, I took the hair from a dead spider’s legs and made a paintbrush. Then it was a case of being very patient and careful.’
Now playing: A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) by Radiohead from the album “Hail To The Thief”
perspective
I’d like to see a timeline of Clinton’s actions against bin Laden, et al, the reaction to the USS Cole bombing, the first WTC attack, compared to the Whitewater investigation, the impeachment, etc.
Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News:
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.
WALLACE: Right…
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you[r] nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..
WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?
CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked: Why didn’t you do anything about the Cole? I want to know how many you asked: Why did you fire Dick Clarke? I want to know…
WALLACE: We asked…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?
CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.
WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…
CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.
WALLACE: About the USS Cole?
CLINTON: Tell the truth.
WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.
CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…
WALLACE: [laughs]
CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.
I think I would have choked Wallace with his damn tie. He may as well admit he gets his questions from the West Wing and they likely aren’t stumpers. Hard to believe this is Mike Wallace‘s son.
who’s playing to win here?
The difference — OK, one of many — between Osama and Commander Codpiece is that Osama knows what he wants and how to get it. Far from being dead or captured or even reduced in power, he now has a refuge in Pakistan and is on his way to getting another in Iraq. His short-term goal is survival but his longer-term aims — to get any non-Arab military presence out of the region — is proceeding nicely as well.
When Shrub is finished wallowing in his 9/11 nostalgia trip, maybe he’ll have to time to contemplate the strategic disaster he’s created in Iraq. For Al Qaeda, trading Afghanistan (and they may get it back yet) for a sanctuary on the borders of Saudia Arabia, Jordan and Syria is definitely trading up.
Is this president really going to have started two wars and lost both, all while dividing and bankrupting his own country?
Heckuva job, dubya.