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Friday, September 24, 2010

New Year - New Stuff

I'm finding this circuit theory stuff rather interesting, just sometimes confusing.

Friday, March 19, 2010

1.8% of the web visible by Google

The size of the open web is 167 terabytes; this is what Google can search. The Invisible Web is estimated at 91,000 terabytes. Check this out – the Library of Congress, in 1997, was figured to have close to 3,000 terabytes! So how much of the internet can we see....1.8% - MakeUseOf


New Google Maps Labs. - MakeUseOf


Friday, March 12, 2010

No need for evolution or Thomas Jefferson in our school system

On March 13th, 2010
  • Texas conservatives make severe curriculum changes - NYTimes;Associated Press
    -They mainly decided to add more conservative beliefs about criticism of Darwin and evolution and the belief that the Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles.
  • Women on the pill may live longer (by warding off some cancers) - Associated Press
  • Arrested for not returning library book - ABCNews
    -Foolishness, plain foolishness.
  • 12,000 Americans died from Swine Flu - NYTimes

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Yellow and Papayas May Save the World, But the U.S. Postal Service Needs the Saving

On March 10th, 2010:
  • Yellow Pixels Being Added to TVs to make them better -LiveScience
    Instead of the typical red, green, and blue that can reproduce billions of color, this yellow pixel will raise "the number of reproducible colors into the trillions." It would also require less intensive lighting, and therefore be more environmentally-friendly.
  • RIT gets federal grant for "Library Research" - RBJ
    RIT’s Image Permanence Institute is to search for ways to lower energy consumption in the preservation of stacks, special collection, and exhibition spaces. They received $580,174.
  • Pizza and soda tax - ABCNews
    Both Pennyslvania and New York are looking into a 10% increase in price to act as a tax and incentive to eat better foods.
  • Papaya to fight cancer - Yahoo!
    Papaya has an anticancer effect against tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. It seems it slows the growth of tumors.
  • U.S. Postal Service to be "saved" - NYTimes
    After losing 1.4 billion dollars last year and an estimated 7 billion dollars this year, a plan is being drawn to reorganize the postal service. This includes cutting more post offices (and placing them in supermarkets?...well should the government be supporting corporations....NO) and possibly cutting Saturday post.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Detroit going farm.

Objects of today, March 9th, 2010:

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Book idea!

Idea for back of said book about presidents (unsure of the content):

Getting tired of that office bully showing off his historical trivia at the cooler? Reading this will surely put 'em in their place.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Evil.

After long debate and long deliberation, I no longer notice no reasons opposing. I have decided to turn evil. I will no longer base myself off of the world of morals that has gotten me nowhere. Instead, I will now remain and stay as the personification of evil. There is no love in the world. Only selfishness, cruelty, and greed. Love is dead.

No one is there. No one cares. No one notices. And no one will listen.

-"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
-"Now the nightmare's real. Now Dr. Horrible is here. To make you quake with fear. To make the whole world kneel." ~ Dr. Horrible

Monday, January 25, 2010

Alike the Bro Code

Thinking of making a writing, similar to that of the Bro Code.

How To Break Up With a Girl Through E-mail
  • Research would obviously include a couple attempts at such an endeavor.
  • Ignoring female partners for long periods of time - what does it do to them? and will it make the e-mail breakup easier.
  • Nigerian scam via e-mail where you are trapped in Nigeria and cannot be liberated, and thus the annihilation of said relationship.
  • ----So many possibilities...

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Wind Power to Fight Global Warming

Notes for today (Janaury 24. 2010)
  • Last jaguar in Southwest captured (inappropriately?) - NY Times
  • The 00's decade (2000-2010) was the warmest on record - NY Times
  • Foolish Republican challenging the E.P.A. Greenhouse Gas limits for reasons of U.S. companies shifting overseas - NY Times
  • Costly Wind Power, could replace 20-30% coal usage by 2024 - NY Times
  • Google to sell a large portion of shares (5,000,000, to be exact) dropping the founder's voting rights to just below 50% - NY Times
  • First Tweet from Space - NY Times

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Guyland and Cheese.

A couple of thoughts I've had today:

-Yogurt is from milk and bacterium. Cheese is from curdled milk. Why not make a yogurt-cheese?
  • I could name the soy cheese brand: Quesoy (mixing "Queso" (Spanish for cheese) and "soy").
  • Project upon return home or when I find a kitchen to use. Curdle milk and ferment bacterium to produce a yogurt-cheese. Materials provided by Leeners.
-Went to the Guyland lecure last night (Feminist Review), mixed feelings about it...
  • Men in Europe seem to develop this Guyland "phase" in high school, while men in the U.S. typically go through it in college. Asians don't meet this philosophy.

-Soy milk, should I try it?