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November 29, 2006

Testing Quantum Entanglement, Time Travel and Retro Causality

Quite an experiment! Seattle PI

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November 28, 2006

Slate Article on the Tesla Roadster

Slate Magazine

The all-electric sports car I've blogged about before.

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Three Articles About Our Social Selves

The pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology.

The state of Beauty.

And the Beauty of Height.

(all via Arts & Letters Daily)

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November 27, 2006

Nissan Plans to Sell Electric Cars in 3 Years

Reuters via Yahoo! News

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November 25, 2006

US Has Now Been in Iraq War Longer Than in WWII

Cnews.com

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November 21, 2006

China to Build World's Largest Solar Plant

Reuters via Yahoo! News

Meanwhile Beijing tops out the pollution index. So it's mostly window dressing, but at least their trying I suppose.

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Sad Day, Robert Altman Dies

Director Robert Altman dead at 81 - AP via Yahoo! News.

One of my favs.

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November 18, 2006

The Lost NYC Literary Scene and the Lost Ginsberg

Urban Scrawl which quotes an awesome line from Laurie Anderson’s “Words in Reverse”:

"I went to the movies and I saw a dog 30 feet high. And this dog was made entirely of light. And he filled up the whole screen. And his eyes were long hallways. He had those long, echoing, hallway eyes."

Plus: Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems and a Biography

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NYT Review of Courtney Love's Diaries

Very insightfully written. Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

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November 14, 2006

Tracking Your Friends via GPS Enabled Cell Phones

Startup offers cell phone mapping service - Yahoo! News

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1948 "What is Capitalism?" Short Film

YouTube (evidently some kind of wienie propaganda).

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November 09, 2006

Listening for Extra-Terrestrial Television

Space.com via Yahoo! News

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November 06, 2006

Britain's Surveillance Society

Fears that the UK would "sleep-walk into a surveillance society" have become a reality, the government's information commissioner has said.
The report coincides with the publication by the human rights group Privacy International of figures that suggest Britain is the worst Western democracy at protecting individual privacy.

BBC News

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November 02, 2006

The Near Future of Google and the Internet

Giant server farms and cloud computing. The dawning of the petabyte age.

Wired

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The World's Fish and Seafood Populations Could Collapse by 2048

...if current trends in habitat destruction and overfishing continue.

Reuters via Yahoo News

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Life Continues...

My life is in serious fux right now (see below) and that's going to slow down postings on here, but once I get a new computer and get settled into my new place, it will pick back up again, hopefully by mid-month.

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