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!
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!
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) service-your-own-powerbook-fix-the-display
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Oh-Boy! Another article titled something like: We show folks how easy it is to fix their own laptop. Real title – We show folks how easy it is so they can go and turn their own expensive laptop that needs somewhat minor repair into a smoking pile of toxic waste…
I know it looks easy – But please take it to someone who does this for a living. First. Before you take it apart and put the screws back in the wrong place. At the very least…
Techdirt:Amazon Gets Offensive On Patents
At least the lawyers are happy.
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Which is why we need to take RAH’s advice and start with shooting ALL the lawyers…
Our schools need to teach that there is no such thing as a positive feedback device that works in the long run. NONE! Whether mechanical or economic or judicial. Any systems that rely totally on positive reinforcement will in time self-destruct due to the steady increase in speed/intensity of operation.
Stable state economy. Limited government. Laws based on humanitarian and ecological principals rather than legal precedent. Manufacturing based on need, quality, longevity, and life-span ecological impact rather than artificially created want and economic accounting.
Time to quit dreaming and get back to scanning.
Scientists reverse memory loss in mice
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Hope they found a key that works on humans.
Had all the sites go down again this morning. Same database problem as yesterday. Went to the mySQL site and looked it up and was throwing a device out of space code. The host got back to me a bit later and said that the /tmp directory was full as they were doing an account restore. I’ll buy that once in a while. Twice in two days is a bit much. Especially as the outage today was over an hour and closer to two. Do not like that. Especially as I am working on adding another 2 sites to the group…
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Did Apple change the signal strength scale with AirPort 4.2?
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I’d like to know this too before I install this update. Getting more and more skittish about apple updates that turn into downgrades that add more drm restrictions…
The Huffington Post | Latest News
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.
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Read on a bit for the conflict of interest part. This is the kind of thing that we have to eliminate. Don’t know how or if it’s even possible but somehow if we are to survive as a people instead of as producer/consumers in a corporate work force.
The early verges of this are on us now as auto makers put employees parking further away that drive other brand cars. Coke firing employees for drinking Pepsi. Walmart touting how much it does for the communities it infests while it instructs its employees to apply for food stamps and federal aid. Tis old news and not new news but it illustrates how our society as a whole is going.
Trademarks everywhere. I’m not immune. I’m typing this on an Apple iBook that I tried to talk myself out of getting. But I got it from a small business. They pissed me off and I may never go back there again but that’s another story.
Ramble, ramble. It all ties together in my head and probably nowhere else.
FreeOpenSourceSoftware Rulz! Think global, buy local.
Report Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay – New York Times
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I kinda equate using the military to report on it’s on actions to putting the known egg sucking dog in charge of protecting the chicken coop…
Take that however you want, Albert E. and handlers…
But I keep forgetting. He don’t read the news. He lets others tell him what to think…
The Huffington Post | Latest News
Willie Nelson Album’s Pot Leaf Cover Morphs Into Palm Tree For Wal Mart…
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I hate to miss a chance to say: WALMART SUX! And this is only one of the many reasons that I don’t do wallyworld. Finely found a place to get most of the vitemans that we had been getting there. Costing a bit more but the business is local and thats where the money stays.
Think global. Buy local.
Support local business not big business.
Just say NO to big business.
Think small. Buy local.
Any more along this line?
Am going tomorrow (today now) to look at a machine that makes 6 inch by 6 inch by 8 to 16 foot long cross tie looking things. Or plastic building/retaining wall timbers that last forever and then some. Taking the cam to get some shots of it.
Uses wire insulation the is cut up in the recycling process for the metal that’s called fluff. Puts it in a mold and using a 250 ton (?) ram compacts the fluff into one solid piece.
The equipment will have to be moved and I’m along for the tear down and put a working machine back together part of the trip. This is just a first run thing to see if it is feasible to take apart and move. Don’t know much of anything about it yet.
Canned 8 pints of blueberrie jam tuesday. Froze 2 quart bags and gave the folks another half a gallon. Still got lots on the bushes. All 3 of them.
Made a loaf of banana blueberry bread today too. Added a cup and a half more flour than they called for and got it to work about right. Tastes kinda like a blueberry bagel. Good just not what I would have thought it would have tasted like. Or has the texture of or something.
The jam was taken off the stove about 6:30 pm and was boiling at the time of putting in the jars. Put them in the water bath and boiled for 10 minutes or more then out on the counter on a towel. After the second batch (small boiler only holds 4 pints) was out I put 3 small towels around them all. Jars not touching. about 11:30 or a little after I noted that they were still HOT. Took a thermometer and they were at 122 degrees f. Tis about 1 am now and they are still at 118.
Here they are with the thermometer sticking out of one side.
Shot from above showing the jars and another thermometer.
Closeup of the temp.
And to be perfectly anal about this here is one more with the towels tucked firmly back in place around the thermometer.
It’s taken me about 20 minutes to get the pictures and resize them, upload and write this crap and the temp has dropped another degree at most. Room temp is 70 or so. Quite good insulation.
Think I will call it a night and start it anew again tomorrow.
Greek island hosts three-day conference on Atlantis myth
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Cleaning out the tabs I had meant to read over the last two or three days and haven’t gotten to yet.
I wonder why this was posted on PhysOrg. And come to think about it I don’t know why I am linking to it. Oh well…
WeatherTalk :: General Thoughts :: Times Are A Changin’
Looking back at Dennis one more time…
I am beginning to realize that we broke lots of new ground in relaying weather information to the masses. We had not one, but two meteorologists “blogging†from the Alabama Gulf coast with laptops and wireless Internet access.
My associates Brian Peters and Bill Murray posted to this blog before, during, and after the arrival of Hurricane Dennis. And, the blog reached more people than some TV stations during the event! The number of people reading the ABC 33/40 weather blog here peaked at 71,342 last Friday, followed by 67,394 Saturday and 55,333 on Sunday. Just a year or so ago most people around here never heard of a blog (short for web log). Astounding.
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Astounding, yes, and I for one am grateful that they are moving in this direction. We don’t have cable tv (internet yes. You have to decide on your priorities…) and haven’t for years. The only news or weather information we get is over the internet and during Dennis we were able to keep track of things a whole lot better than ever before. I have hits counted there on all three days. As well as most other days. Tis always an interesting and informative read.
Newsday.com: Sen. Clinton attacks Bush, comparing him to Alfred E. Newman
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Never thought about it before but there IS a resemblance. Though I personally think Alfred is smarter AND better looking…
Stupid Online Advertising, Part 12,459 | Bayosphere
A local fitness company is running an advertisement on the Chronicle’s site. It covers the top of the article, and there’s a little “X” in the corner that supposedly lets you remove the ad.
But after repeatedly clicking it and then having the ad reappear, I want to urge the Chronicle to try something else. I have no problem with online advertising. But this is beyond annoying.
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Been there and done that and didn’t go back.
These news outlets need to learn that the internet is a big place with easy access. Not like the local newspaper which used to be the only game in town. When I run across one of these sites I make a mental note to not go back for a while. Most of the worst offenders learn in a short while or seem to as the offending popunder/over/in the middle of is usually gone by the time I forget about it and go back. Sometimes not but as I said the internet is a big place and most news isn’t just at one place any more.
Learn, earn, or burn…
The Huffington Post | The Blog
Confidential Sources
Asking investigative reporters to work without the ability to keep sources confidential is like asking a special prosecutor to do his job without the power of the subpoena.
In the case of “outed” CIA agent Valerie Plame, this reality has obviously escaped the comprehension of a fanatically zealous special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, and a judicial hooligan named Hogan – Judge Thomas.
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Amen!
SPIEGEL Interview with African Economics Expert: “For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!” – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News
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Interesting view. And very correct. When the aid stops the folks who have come to depend on it will starve. The ones put out of business because they can’t compete with free aid products end up trying to find another way of making a living and often starve. Interference in the guise of Aid of any kind should STOP now! Let the folks closest to the problem figure out how to correct it. Many are self correcting.
As has been shown here in the US Aid breeds both armys of bureaucrats as well and dependents. It makes it hard if not impossible to escape… Teach – YES. Give – NO
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