Comments (0) Techdirt:Spammers Continue To Be The Biggest (By Far) Supporters Of Email Authentication
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And in the normal turn of events your inbox will be full of spam and your spam filter will be full of real email… Thank you, Micro$loth, one more time.
Techdirt:How Dare The BBC Introduce New Listeners To Beethoven
Never underestimate the short-sightedness of record execs — even at classical music labels, who you’d think would be a bit more understanding about these things.
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Nuff said. Click the link…
Hacker magazine shuts up shop | The Register
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The end of an era… Or is it?
Administration unveils new energy program
Bush administration officials Monday announced a new program to reduce household energy costs by 10 percent during the next decade.
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Okay. If Alfred says so…
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Now this looks cool! Wish the price tag was a bit lower but I suspect the tech will develop and price will fall fairly quickly.
Wired News: Making a Plug for Hybrids
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I wish them luck. The battery situation is still just not there for full sized autos. The hybrid seems to be the best compromise so far.
Treehugger: Cold-Water Coffee by Toddy
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Makes me wonder if just letting the coffee grounds soak over night and then straining them out wouldn’t do the same thing? I love the odor and taste of coffee but the old gut don’t like it one little bit.
Treehugger: Geegoot – Solar power to the ice cream people
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This looks really cool. Wish the site had more information.
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…
The Seattle Times: The genius behind Linux cherishes his anonymity
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Interesting read. Bit of a glimpse into his personal life. But I don’t think that there is a difference between his work and personal life after reading this…
Nero Wolfe
Working on my Nero-Wolfe covers site. Got WordPress installed and finely configured. Some of the category settings gave me fits but finely figured out where to change them. Setting up a category for each title. Not sure if that is the right way to do it or not but figure it will do for now. And that will allow me to get all the stuff i have now in there and can sort it out later. Yea right. Has taken me over 2 years to get to this update…
Bought 5 more domain names today too. Got murdertheywrote.com and .net, deathondemand.com and .net and nero-wolfe.net. Got the hosting set up. Now to build the sites. At least got to get a redirect page up to point to bluespringsbazaar.com as murdertheywrote.com and .net, deathondemand.com and .net are going to be book sales sites.
Back to the mines…
eXe: the eLearning XHTML editor |
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Haven’t spent much time on this site but it looks interesting for teachers if no one else.
New Scientist Breaking News – String, mud and bamboo make a quake-proof house
“Most of these houses are do-it-yourself, and we’ve never quite grasped the enormity of the practical side. The new technique has a huge potential application in south and central America, central Asia and India,” says structural engineer Michael Griffith of the University of Adelaide, South Australia.
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The above is taken out of context but sums up what I have seen as a problem with BIG science and BIG business, for quite a few years.
Where a poor man looks at what is here and available and cheap or free a consultant or scientist studying the problem thinks about what is available with corporate funding or grant money and how the [ house, crop, fence, water supply ] can be replaced or redesigned to work better.
Big gap between one and the other.
I have a problem with using old or making do even when new is available. Would rather use mud than cement. Or new cement anyway.
I like the idea of tying or bracing the adobe walls with bamboo. I have seen pix of 3rd world slums where something similar was done. They had build with old brick (it looked like) and used bamboo and wire or rope (or whatever they could get) and pieces of corrugated tin to sandwich the brick in between. Not quite the same concept as drilling the holes but I suspect that hovel was cooler/warmer than the ones around it made with just tin, packing crate scraps and cardboard.
Study says drink beer for the health of it
Studies published in the organization’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reveal that some food found at baseball games and other sporting events contain compounds that are good for the body.
The studies found that sunflower seeds lower blood pressure, beer reduces the risk of a heart attack, sauerkraut fights cancer and onions prevent osteoporosis.
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So what about ice cream and hot dogs?
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This Chaps My Ass
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1833612,00.asp
If you are offended by my harsh language….sorry ’bout that chief. I ain’t done with this blog and chances are it may or may not get more harsh as I continue. It just depends on how pissed I get as I think about it.
The down-and-dirty synopsis…Linux developers are starving to death so they have to get “real†jobs. Now, before you go thinking that I am attacking this author, stop right now. I really like this guy and he is doing what he thinks he needs to do in order to help. I hope it does help, because here and there he has a valid point…but before you go passing the hat for homeless software writers, give me a chance to tell my side of it.
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Hellios is at it again…
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