Archive for November, 2006
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006Bossman asks “can you write a script that makes a tar.gz of each user in the /home dir please?”
After a couple false starts involving the bash for loop (which I still think could solve the problem), and a quick glance at the find man page, I produce the one line result.
find /home -type d -mindepth [...]
Congress looks at fetal pain
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006I recall there being some debate over exactly when an unborn baby begins to feel pain, at what point the nervous system is sufficiently developed to transmit it, and the brain to make sense of the transmissions. So I expect that this debate[1] will not go smoothly, and the measure to be hotly contested [...]
Burqas in public
Friday, November 17th, 2006Several European politicians recently have talked about the problems burqas pose to civil interaction and society as we know it. The Dutch are the first that I have seen proposing so global a ban though.[1] They want to ban them in all public places.
I do not like this idea at all. I [...]
quote of the day
Friday, November 17th, 2006“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” —Mark Twain
More on Peer Review
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Ms. Denyse O’Leary looks at the origin and flaws of the peer review process in some length.[1] It is not just me you see.
Ms. Denyse O’Leary. “Introduction: Peer Review - Gold standard in science - or ‘gold in them thar hills’?” The ID Report. 2006-11-15. http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.php/2/2006/11/15/lstrongglemgintroduction_l_emg_peer_revi
undebunked
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Mr. George Monbiot publishes an article[1] in rival paper “The Guardian,” addressing some of Mr. Christopher Monckton’s claims.[2] His refutation is much less referenced. He also falls into the fallacy of assuming that anything that comes from a peer reviewed journal is necessarily more authoritative than anything that does not. Considering some [...]
Temperature Woes
Monday, November 13th, 2006It persists in being about five degrees colder up at my desk than down by the computer. It is 64 degrees up here, 69 downstairs. ☹
Adult Stem Cells and Type 2 Diabetes
Monday, November 13th, 2006There is or is going to be an article in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science talking about a study in which adult stem cells, which pose no ethical problems, were used to cure type 2 diabetes in mice.[1] This is the sort of thing that ought to [...]
a problem with cell phones
Sunday, November 12th, 2006One of the problems with cell phones is that it isn’t always convenient to be with in cell phone charger range of an electrical socket. The cell phone will without fail decide to run out of battery at just such a time in the middle of a conversation you would rather not end.
Parts of the whole
Thursday, November 9th, 2006I can only suggest you read the whole. I cannot speak with the power that typifies much, though not all, of Mr. George Weigel’s work.
Europe, and especially western Europe, is suffering from a crisis of civilizational morale. … No, the most dramatic manifestation of Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale is the fact that Europe [...]
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