Archive for June, 2007
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Your Score: Borefest - ISTJ 13% Extraversion, 46% Intuition, 73% Thinking, 86% Judging One word. Boring. Sums you up to a tee. You’re responsible, trustworthy, [...]
Because Global warming is indesputable
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Johannesburg, South Africa has its first confirmed snowfall in more than 25 years1. While the city normally gets cold, with an average minimum of 4.7 degrees Celsius in June, this is the first snow they have had since 1981. The capital, Pretoria, had its first snow since 1968, an even longer period.
Meanwhile, [...]
Translations
Monday, June 25th, 2007Understand, I am all for accurate translations. I also agree with Mr. George Weigel in saying that Catholics are not, by and large, morons, and can handle big words and complex ideas.1 I am told that the current English translation of the Mass is exceptionally poor, and that the new one being worked [...]
Quote of the day
Thursday, June 21st, 2007“If, as the editors of Nature claim, our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution, then the opinion that our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution is itself just the product of evolution.” - Michael Egnor1
In other words, if their theory is true, we cannot know it or prove it, because there [...]
The sun controls our climate
Thursday, June 21st, 2007The sun not only varies in brightness, it also has a major impact on how much cosmic radiation reaches the earth. Between the two, it is the primary cause of change in our climate.1 This article focuses on a series of mud cores from Canada, but also has a number of references to [...]
Do we even know the *current* temperature?
Monday, June 18th, 2007The Pittsburgh Tribute-Review reports that there is reason to doubt the temperature recordings from NOAA.1 According to the article, a former meteorologist is spot-checking the quality of the NOAA weather stations across the country. So far only a few of the 1,221 stations have been checked, so much work remains to be done. [...]
quote of the day
Friday, June 15th, 2007“The Ten Commandments do not enshrine our highest values. They enshrine our lowest values. For it is the bare minimum of decency and common sense to say, “At the very least, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t commit adultery, have some respect for your parents, honor your Creator, etc.”” - Mark Shea
as release nears
Thursday, June 14th, 2007As the release of pidgin & finch (and libPurple) 2.0.2 draws near, I cannot be but proud to work with such an amazing group of people. Though it appears that 65 tickets will slip, will be pushed from this release to the next, my co-developers have closed an amazing 89 tickets for this release, [...]
The family in society
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Spiegel recently took a look at the way globalization and capitalism are slowly but surely making the welfare state fall apart.1 The article appears to be somewhat dated, but that matters little for its conclusions, though I cannot explain why it has just now in the last week or so come to my attention. [...]
localizers
Friday, June 8th, 2007A year or so ago, HP came out with an RFID chip the size of a grain of rice.1 That provided a significant step towards ubiquitous localizers. Today, we have the next big step: wireless power.2 Now both of these just need to be miniaturized to nano-technology scales.
Mr. Luke Schierer. [...]
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