Colorful Characters

This post on Reductio Ad Absurdum v3 – Revoke the Gasbag’s Privilegesstarted me off rambling across the internet looking up some of my favorite gasbags and other colorful characters. (Don’t blame Kevin for anything I found – his post just set me looking.) I eventually ran across this site – Free James Traficant : James […]

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Lies and the lying liars who tell them

:: Xinhuanet – English :: The anti-war documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” has crossed the 100-million-dollar mark over the weekend, setting a new benchmark for nonficition Hollywood films, the Hollywood Reporter reported Monday. Uh, wait a minute, I seem to remember a nonfiction Hollywood film released on Ash Wednesday that has done about 5 times that.

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New distributed computing project to search for gravity waves

Slashdot | BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves Buzz Skyline writes “Einstein@Home is a new, BOINC-based distributed computing project that will analyze data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO). The goal is to perform a whole-sky, gravitational wave survey of pulsars. Beta-test versions of the Einstein@Home screen saver should be available by […]

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Hiatus and Storm

Blogging and everything else online may be on hiatus for a few days. Half the county, including our house, is without power. Staying at my parents house tonight, but they have no phone service. Just ttopped in the office for a quick email check and to let a few people know why they weren’t hearing […]

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