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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
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.
(all via Arts & Letters Daily)
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November 27, 2006
Nissan Plans to Sell Electric Cars in 3 Years
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November 25, 2006
US Has Now Been in Iraq War Longer Than in WWII
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November 21, 2006
China to Build World's Largest Solar Plant
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
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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.
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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.
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The World's Fish and Seafood Populations Could Collapse by 2048
...if current trends in habitat destruction and overfishing continue.
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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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