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By Dave, July 21, 2005 9:44 pm

Ravenous

Version 0.3.0 released. I need to download a copy and try this out. It sounds like a dynamic sitebuilders dream.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 12:32 pm

New Scientist News – Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind

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No S#$%! Glad they have finely figured that one out.

The mechanism that they discuss is interesting.

My symptoms started with a month long bout of flu that left me unable to do much more than real short walks for weeks. That was about 17 years ago. I still have periods that I am unable to do more than just walk from place to place to sit again. Mental activity is almost impossible at those times.

I am coming out of a 2 to 3 week bad period now. This time the mental fog wasn’t as bad but still bad enough that things that I would usually spend minutes on has been taking hours.

Typing during these episodes is always interesting too as I seem to get short circuits between head and hands, so that the finger on the left that is supposed to type the letter will not work but the one on the right hand will do so instead. Or the speed with the nerves fire will seem to vary and I get a lot of “teh” and “ot” and other transposed letters.

I’ve been living with is as there is no alternative that I have found to this point but this sounds like it may have a direct impact on a lot of us…

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 12:18 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Hiroshima bomb may have carried hidden agenda

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And lets rewrite history yet again. But as they say (whoever they are) history belongs to the victors…

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 12:02 pm

CNN.com – Quake sounds reveal Earth ‘ripping apart’ – Jul 20, 2005

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Makes sense. And may give a new way of either predicting or monitoring quakes.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 11:58 am

Salt Lake Tribune – Utah
Really cool invention brings teens awards
Physics students: They came up with an environmentally friendly, economical air conditioner

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This is via Steve. Thanks for the pointer. I saw a link to this yesterday but failed to get through at the time.

This looks possible. Depends on how much electricity it uses. The Pelter devices I have played with were real juice hungry but they “were” older devices. I guess the first one I saw was in the late 80’s or early 90’s and they date way on back from there.

The article says they are using 5 of them so I’m sure they are getting a lot of cooling. The problem is going to be overcoming the initial thermal load of the hot air mass in the car as well as the hot mass of the car its self.

Will have to wait and see when more info is available.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 11:52 am

Treehugger: Seeing the Future, Reflected in a Solar Stove

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Meant to post this yesterday but was not a good day…

This looks interesting.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 11:37 am

NewsForge | Hooking OOo to MySQL

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This is amazing! Other than that I got nothing yet. Gonna see if NeoOffice has it yet as it’s the only OOo I have on here (iBook).

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 10:57 am

NewsForge | Run GNU/Linux from a USB pen drive

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Gonna have to try one of these pendrive distros one of these days. Sound interesting. And with the newer bios machines should boot right up. Don’t think anything I have will boot off a pen drive.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 10:41 am

» Blog Archive » The Verdict is in…Some Windows Users are Idiots

And Helios is at it again… Trouble is he’s right. Again…

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 10:18 am

Vehicle barrier allowed to go ahead | www.azstarnet.com ®

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But this isn’t turning into a police state. Nope. This isn’t at all like the Berlin wall or the Great Wall of China. This is just a 123 mile long concrete barrier to keep drug smugglers out that the taxpayers get to foot the bill for.

Idiots! But I forgot, we now have Albert E. in charge so anything goes…

RAH you predicted “the crazy years” only too well…

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 6:33 pm

Good news for dark chocolate-lovers? – Yahoo! News
The study, published by the American Heart Association, joins a growing body of research that show compounds found in chocolate called flavonoids can help the blood vessels work more smoothly, perhaps reducing the risk of heart disease.

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At last! A reason to eat chocolate. And this was sponsered by the the AHA and not the ACE (american chocolate eaters). Cool!

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 5:53 pm

Compass Prayer Carpet :
Gizmodo

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Okay, I haven’t seen everything yet. But this is one more thing that I would have never even considered thinking of looking for.

The rug has a “compass module” embedded that controls the electro luminescent panel and makes it glow brighter the closer it is pointed toward Mecca.

Whatever.

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 5:14 pm

nbc13.com – News – Ax-Wielding Man Arrested At Alabama Church

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And alabama make it to the national news yet again…

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 5:03 pm

Boing Boing: Black Panthers hot sauce
the hot sauce is dubbed “Burn Baby Burn.”

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I almost didn’t click on this link. But a hot sauce put out by the Black Panthers named “Burn Baby Burn.” was just too much to pass up. So here it is. For whatever reason.

Though now that I think about it I do have a slight memory connection.

What follows needs to be taken with a large dose of salts. The mind that is doing this remembering isn’t real sharp any more about things yesterday much less this far back. I could be misremembering all the way across the board. You have been warned.

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There used to be a log cabin across the street from where I now live. It was owned by an old black man (? I think). Don’t know what happened to him. I think he was already long dead by the time the place was torched. The old cement steps are still in the bank by the ditch.

The house was burned, I heard, by the local KKK who were trying to capture two Black Panther outside agitators that were supposedly in the area (Anniston, AL) inciting the black community to violence and arson.

There had been some rioting and several buildings burned in Anniston one Sunday evening. We saw the glow in the sky over Anniston when we came out of church that night. I remember wanting to go down there but my father intervened (wisely looking back on it now) so I didn’t get to see any of the rioting. A friend did go and said it was all crazy but I don’t know that he really went or got close to anything if he did.

It was later that night or Monday when the rumor went around that this guy (don’t think I ever knew a name) was hiding out in this old cabin across from our farm. I doubt that he was but there was no evidence in the ashes that anyone died there when the fire marshal checked it out a day or so later.

Anyway I heard and then saw the fire trucks head this way. We lived about 2 miles away then, actually where my folks still live, but to get here you had to turn right in front of our house (then). So I saw the trucks head this way and wanted to follow but I suspect my dad knew more about what was going on than I did and wouldn’t let me go. Came this way the next day I think and the place was just smoking ruins.

The next report was that the Black Panthers had left the state and things started to settle back down.

I guess this would have been 67 or 68 but I can’t be sure. We were always about 2 to 3 years behind the west coast on everything else.

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 1:44 pm

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Hunger hormone linked to memory

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Interesting. So how hard is it gonna be to regulate this? Or is it gonna be possible without gene therapy?

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 8:19 am

Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites

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And you may note upon “close” inspection a cheesy attempt at humor… 😉

Cool one Google!

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By Dave, July 20, 2005 8:12 am

★ The Joy of Tech! ★

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Steve “Distortion Field” Jobs on replays?

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 11:29 pm

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Toxic Algae Attacks Bathers On The Riviera…

Bathing was banned along 15 kilometres of the Italian Riviera yesterday when more than a hundred holidaymakers were taken to hospital after being infected by toxic tropical algae.

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But we got nothing to worry about cause the economy will fall into line soon with this war thing going on. No global warming gonna mess with our business growth. Right, Albert E Prez, whatever you say…

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 7:41 pm

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Einstein’s close encounter
Curiously enough, when Einstein was asked, years later, about his beliefs in the telepathic experiments of Dr JB Rhine, then studying parapsychology at Duke University, he stressed his scepticism in strictly scientific terms. All of Rhine’s experiments had reported that psi-forces did not decline with distance, unlike the four known forces of nature – gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. “This suggests to me a very strong indication that a non-recognised source of systematic errors may have been involved,” Einstein wrote.

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I love the way he responded. Not saying that any wrongdoing or lying was going on just “non-recognised source of systematic errors “! That is so cool!

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 6:17 pm

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Costco vs. Wal-Mart

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This is a good comparison between Costco and Wal-mart. Wish we had a Costco around here. That kind of attitude is the only kind to take for the long haul. Something almost all of the present grab and rape corporate takeover companies seem to have missed…

Thanks for the pointers Joey!