Politics
Energy Independence In 10 Years
Shortly after 9/11 I really felt that the Republicans and Democrats dropped the ball. 9/11 should have been a wake up call to make the US energy independant from the Middle East. If we can go to the moon in 10 years, we can generate all our energy needs independently in 10 years time as [...]
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The YDR Blog has an entry today talking about how today will be the last chance to vote old-skool style. on November 19th, there is going to be an exhibit of new voting machines, one of which will replace the old style push lever machines. They recommend people show up and make sure that the winning machine has a verified paper trail. (0)
Home Rule Meeting
Windsor Township had a meeting tonight on Home Rule. Seeing how I’ll be asked to vote on if the township should for a commitee to study and recommend if we should switch to Home Rule, I figured it was a good idea to attend, as I had a number of questions. Inside, you’ll find what [...]
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And Me Without An Undisclosed Location
I’m sitting here in the BWI parking lot waiting for Meg’s arrival in 2 hours ( I miss read her departure time as her arrival time.. d’oh! ) so I’ve some time to kill and thought I’d make a post about something I saw on the Baltimore beltway on the way here… The normal Orange [...]
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I've been saying it for years, but it's nice that someone who's actually walked on another planet agrees with me. Retiring astronaut John Young recently gave an interview with the Houston Chronicle where he gives some scary, or as I hope, motivating statistics:
The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash. The most dangerous thing we do in Houston, of course, is drive our automobiles to work every day, so you know how dangerous that is and how many people get killed doing that. But wiping out civilization. ... It's not the point that we should move (to another planet). It's the point that the technologies that we need to live and work in other places in the solar system will help us survive on Earth when these bad things happen.(via /.) (0)
New Scientist has a neat interview with John Nash the inspiration for A Beautiful Mind. It is a good read. (via BoingBoing) (0)
If you aren't reading Lessig Blog, you should be. Currently Geof Stone is guest blogging, and writing up a neat series of posts about how civil liberties have been curtailed by the government in times of war during the past and comparing it to current events. (0)
Condi Rice is Angry!!
Condi Rice is Angry!! I think I have new favorite web page. Grr. She’s angry. (via, you guessed it, Hork)
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First we have what the country would look like if population was proportional to state size.
And next, we have what's got to be the geekiest thing I've seen on Jeopardy. (2)
Two quick links: F*ck The South: wow, he's angry. and a little more on the motivational side: Get Your War On. PS: Mom, if you reading this, don't click on those. PSS: I warned you. (1)
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