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Category Archives: trivia
Amazon Kindle2: A First Review
I received my Amazon Kindle2 on the day that it was released, and in less than a month, I have changed the way that I read.
International Linux Foundation Announces Distributed Network For All Users
In an announcement that will likely have long term implications for users of personal computers, the International Linux Foundation today reported that it will release a version of its operating system that will include a link to a distributed network.
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Proton-Based Network Offers Free Cellular and Internet Services
Free voice and data services will be available through an international consortium’s program that deploys a proton-based global network. The telecommunications network’s potential was confirmed last week following research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
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Knowledge is Power
I challenge us to consider the common phrase, knowledge is power.
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Blogosphere Grows to 50 Million
Technorati, the recognized blog tracking service, reported that there are fifty-one million blogs were in publication as of today. This is one hundred times more blogs than were in existence when the tracking service started, three years ago.
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know is Wrong
John Stossel kept me in rapt attention, this afternoon.
Chesapeake Invader
C. Wylie Poag, a scientiest with the United States Geological Survey, describes a meteorite that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.
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It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes
Jerry Dennis has written an excellent science book that is approriate for family reading.
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Krakatoa
Simon Winchester has again authored a thoroughly enjoyable book.
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Teleportation Takes Quantum Leap Forward
The United States Department of Defense and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence today issued a joint news release announcing a electronic urban battlefield personnel and weapons transportation system, codenamed EUBPAWT (pronounced EUW-paw). The EUBPAWT system utilizes a high-energy quantum mechanical electrical field to quantify the quantum molecular structure of living tissue, which is then spatially transported and interstitially reconstituted.
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Two Great and Different Thinkers Born on this Day in 1809
Two great and, in at least one way, antithetic men were born on this day in 1809. One advocated man’s natural evolvement; the other, God’s greater involvement.
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Reset Your Digital Watch, Saturday Night
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) will move time backward one second on December 31, 2005. An extra second will be added at the end of the year to to account for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation. The IERRSS recognizes that our planet’s pace of rotation is unpredictable, and will institute the first leap second in seven years. Normally the leap second is a nearly annual event.
First Marketable Quantum Computer Chip
University of Michigan researchers have developed the first scalable quantum computer chip using principally the same semiconductor manufacturing process as integrated semiconductor chips. The researchers have been able to trap and control a single atom within a processor chip.
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Excuse me pal, do you mind if I take the window seat?
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on its front page that passenger aircraft around the world are often delayed because of unticketed and unwanted passengers.
Ruminant Methane Can Be Reduced 70 Percent
French scientists reported it, and British scientists are working to develop an alternative. This is one of the continuing multinational efforts to reduce harmful greenhouse gases that are a major contributor to global warming. What are the two nations’ scientists working to reduce? Read on…
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The Secret Life of Numbers
The Secret Life of Numbers is esoteric website that visually demonstrates the popularity of numbers between 0 and 100,000, based on the frequency that each number appears in the databases of popular search engines.
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