Month: June 2004
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San Francisco rolls out the red carpet for the Clintons
A rare flash of honesty from the Clintons: “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
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Textalyser
Cool: Textalyser, a free online text analysis tool. Among other things, it will analyze the complexity and readability of any text or website.
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first private manned space flight
The world’s first private manned space flight is scheduled to start tomorrow, at 6:30 AM P.D.T. I don’t know about you, but I plan to watch it live on MSNBC. Do you remember the NASA scramjet test a few months ago? That was model rocketry compared to this. This is history folks, and if a…
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Is the intifada over?
Charles Krauthammer: “While no one was looking, something historic has happened in the Middle East. The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost.” There are some great lessons in there for American foreign policy, so read on.
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Fun with XML
I recently updated to FireFox .9, the latest and greatest web browser from Mozilla.org I then installed Bookmarks Synchronizer, a Firefox extension that allows me to synchronize my bookmarks by uploading an XML file to my website every time they are updated. I wanted to provide a nicely formatted page on my websites, so I…
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Robot House Builder
This is interesting: a USC researcher has created a robot that will be able to build an entire house in hours, without any human intervention. The NSF-funded project might be more PR hype than fact, but if legit, it may be the beginning of a revolutionary new way of building low-cost, custom-designed houses. It’s interesting…
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“Dialectic post-postmodern Afro-Latin critical gender theory”
During my lengthy and extremely boring graduation ceremony last year, I passed the time by snickering at the thesis topics of the liberal arts majors. The topics I saw were typical of the BS that passes for research in the humanities these days: critical (Marxist) theory, obsession with sex, and “ethnic” (anti-Western) studies. I was…
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Civil War Widows
This is kinda interesting: the last surviving widows of the Civil War on both the Union and Confederate sides died within the last year. For the historically challenged, the war ended in 1865, 140 years ago.
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My Bookmarks
I decided to clean up my bookmarks a few days ago, after accumulating nearly 2000 links over seven years of web surfing. The growth of my bookmark list has dropped drastically lately, because Google makes finding sites so easy that I rarely bother to save them anymore. Anyway, I trimmed the bookmarks to a manageable…
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RIP, Quotation Edition
You won’t find a glowing tribute to President Reagan on this blog. He was a champion of liberty and free markets in words, but not in deeds or on principle. He may have hastened the end of the Cold War, but he certainly didn’t “win” it. I believe that his chief virtue is what many…