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Archive for October, 2007

Elcomsoft turns your PC into a password cracking supercomputer

24th October 2007

Read it. Not good news.

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Ethnic Cleansing, Other Horrors, and the Racial IQ Controversy

24th October 2007

David Friedman questions the conventional wisdom. He’s good at that.

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It’s a made-up word used to trick students

24th October 2007

Read it. I can’t say they’re wrong.

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Toyota’s i-Real: wrap yourself in a killer whale

24th October 2007

Read it. I’m not sure whether this is cool or just silly. Wouldn’t mind having one, though.

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Who will defend James Watson?

24th October 2007

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

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Musicians deliver ‘no nukes’ petition

24th October 2007

Read it. The headline alone tells you pretty much all you need to know about how far American culture has degenerated.

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Reid’s approval falls to low in home state

24th October 2007

Read it. And laugh.

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Universities Figuring Out The Value Of Giving Away Content For Free

23rd October 2007

Read it. Someday the public will wake up to the fact that college faculty don’t really give a shit about teaching, but are all about research and publication; teaching is the K.P. they have to do to keep up their affiliation with the gravy train.

Say you’re an Assistant Professor at Harvard (or Stanford, or MIT, or UCLA). Do you get tenure for being a good teacher? Nope. You get tenure for research and publication. In fact, if you spend too much time being a teacher and not enough time being a researcher and writer, you can hose yourself, career-wise.

So this makes perfect sense. Rather than spend six hours a week in front of a bunch of pimply adolescents, spend a couple hours doing a real good video, put it on the net, and go back to what’s going to bring in the bucks.

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For the Record

23rd October 2007

I live in Texas; I have zero interest in how much of California might be on fire, a topic that seems to be consuming (pun intended) the local “professional” news media here in Dallas.

Wake me when the flames approach Amarillo.

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College Costs Outpace Inflation Rate

23rd October 2007

Read it.

Wash: “Gee, college is good. But not everyone can afford to go. We’d better subsidize it.”

Rinse: “Wow, demand for college has sure jumped.”

Repeat: “Whoa, the cost for college has gone up a lot. We’d better increase the subsidy.”

A basic requirement for any sane political system is demonstrable evidence that candidates for office are familiar with elementary economics. (In case you were wondering, no, we don’t have one of those.)

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Educated People Develop Dementia Later But More Rapidly

23rd October 2007

Read it. That certainly explains the Senate — and most senior faculty.

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Sleep Deficiency Causes Emotional Overreaction

23rd October 2007

Read it. And take a nap already.

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A Congregation of Customers

23rd October 2007

Read it. Shopping for God in all the wrong places.

Mr. Twitchell manages to reduce this profound idea to the dictates of basic consumer theory. Sacrifice, he says–not least, tithing–signifies value. The more you sacrifice, the more you visibly value the product for which you are giving something up, and the more you show other people that you value it, too. “Why do true believers sometimes puncture themselves, walk on their knees until they bleed, fast until they are skeletal or join a monastery and go mum?” Mr. Twitchell asks. “Brand allegiance.”

This is obviously someone who knows as much about religion as Hillary Clinton knows about life in Omaha.

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Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Begins

23rd October 2007

Read it.

What do you call people who want to kill you? (Hint: Enemies.)

What do you call people in your group who favor your enemies? (Hint: Traitors.)

What is so hard to understand about this?

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Native Hawaiians’ status set for vote

23rd October 2007

Read it. Ask yourself: Why this particular legislation at this particular time?

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Defending “Islamofascism”

22nd October 2007

Christopher Hitchens explains, “It’s a valid term. Here’s why.”

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Perspective

22nd October 2007

Jonathan Clements, personal-finance columnist, in today’s Wall Street Journal:

We all tend to sit up and take notice when we come across people with fancy titles, hefty incomes and immense riches. Yet these aren’t signs of genius or virtue. Want proof? All it takes is two words: Paris Hilton.

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Samsung’s 40-inch 1080p LCD TV panel — just 0.39-inches thin

22nd October 2007

Read it. Very nice. The TV looks good, too.

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GE Engineer Sees Competitive Photovoltaics In Under 10 Years

22nd October 2007

Read it. Of course, they’d get a lot farther if they could find some way to include ethanol in the manufacturing process.

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The Dutch Intifada, Night 6

21st October 2007

Read it. Sow the wind of unrestricted immigration, reap the whirlwind of social chaos.

But that could never happen in America. Nope. Of course not.

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Turn-taking etiquettes

21st October 2007

Read it. The telphone — modern convenience, or agent of social disintegration?

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Chinese astronauts want space-based communist party branch

21st October 2007

Read it. Funny, I thought that was NASA’s job.

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Science as Politics Occasionally Contaminated by Reason or Truth, but Only Inadvertently

21st October 2007

Read it. As AlGore has conclusively demonstrated, Politics wins over Science every time.

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Chasing females can take years off life

20th October 2007

Read it. Shucks, who doesn’t know that? It’s only when you catch one that your life starts to lengthen,which is why married guys last longer than single guys. (Don’t take my word for it — you can look it up.)

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Recipes: Shared And Improved On For Years… Now Targeted By Copyright Cops?

20th October 2007

Read it. It’s getting really silly out there, folks.

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Poll finds Thompson appeals to churchgoers

20th October 2007

Read it. Gee, I wonder why.

Go, Fred.

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Fox to air Islamic documentary

20th October 2007

Read it. The dhimmis at NPR tried to bury it and couldn’t.

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Venezuelan Monument to Che Guevara Destroyed

19th October 2007

Read it. Apparently Venezuela isn’t totally lost.

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Harry Reid Hearts Rush Limbaugh

19th October 2007

Read it. I don’t know what universe left-wing moonbats inhabit but I sure hope they run tours someday.

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DS2 announces 400Mbps powerline networking

19th October 2007

Read it. An interesting concept — if it actually works. I’d love to see some proof that the data on the line don’t go out to the wide world generally. The thought makes home WiFi look like a bank vault.

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Do right-wing ideas keep on failing?

19th October 2007

Read it. Who cares? Left-wing ideas have been failing since the Paris Commune in 1870, and they’re still as popular as ever.

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U.S. Forces Could Attack Iran if Needed

19th October 2007

Read it. Unfortunately, the size of your dick doesn’t matter if you haven’t the balls to use it.

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A science journalist makes the case for low-carb diets

19th October 2007

Read it. Oh, if only Dr Atkins had lived to see this day….

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Researchers develop artificial nerve

19th October 2007

Read it. And the hits just keep on coming.

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Sex and the Presidency

19th October 2007

Peggy Noonan describes Hillary’s attempts to make an asset of herself.

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UC Irvine researchers tout first nano-scale radio

19th October 2007

Read it. How about a radio that clips to your ear like an earring? It’s coming.

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Terrorist Shuts Down Islamic Charities for Funding Terrorism

19th October 2007

Read it.

Who would know better where Hamas gets its money than Mahmoud Abbas?

Indeed.

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Democrats tell business to pay up or else.

19th October 2007

Read it. Unfortunately, being a fiduciary means never having to say, “It’s the principle of the thing.”

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The US is a great place to be anti-American

19th October 2007

Read it. I have to agree.

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Critics soften hits on Cosby message

19th October 2007

Read it.

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Boeing demonstrates a Hummer-mounted laser weapon

18th October 2007

Read it. “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s JIFFYPOP!”

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Neanderthals may have had headline writing gene

18th October 2007

Read it. You see, you learn something new every day.

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Acme ships a three-screened “portable” computer

18th October 2007

Read it. Me want.

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An Artist and His Dog

18th October 2007

Read it. This guy has balls.

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Silicon nanowire could convert light into electrical energy

18th October 2007

Read it. This would be rather handy.

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Another Use for the Multi-Purpose Burqa

18th October 2007

Read it. Another fabulous money-making (so to speak) opportunity.

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Tough Punishment Expected for Warhead Errors

18th October 2007

Read it. This would seem excessive. After all, it’s not as if they were attempting to enforce immigration laws.

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Checking Out Tomorrow’s Library

18th October 2007

Read it. Can’t wait for the DRM and other intellectual property folks to get their lawyers into this one.

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Albany Muslims Seething

18th October 2007

Read it. How appalling that this guy would dare prosecute Muslims. Doesn’t he know that Islam is a religion of peace? Just look at any car bombing — there’s a piece here, there’s a piece over there….

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Deputy salute planned by town after prison term

18th October 2007

Read it. That’s modern America for you. It’s okay to break the law to come into America; in fact, if law enforcement officials try to, you know, enforce the law, they’re violating the criminals’ civil rights and will go to jail.

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