Apr
30
Highway Wind Turbines!
Filed Under Global Warming, Reading Suggestions, Science, The Environment | Leave a Comment
I can’t believe no one thought of this before!
Article at TreeHugger.com
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Apr
23
Farm Subsidies
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I’ve never been a fan of U.S. farm subsidies. The idea of paying farmers to grow or not grow certain crops has always seemed directly contradictory to a capitalist economy but now I have even more of a reason to oppose these subsidies.
Here is a really great article from the New York Times that [...]
Apr
23
Tzar Bomba Soviet Nuclear Weapon
Filed Under Random Thoughts, Science, Uncategorized, Viewing Suggestions | 9 Comments
Wow. Check out this comparison of nuclear weapons. You can see the difference between the 15 kiloton nuclear weapon we dropped on Hiroshima and the 50 megaton weapon the Soviets developed. Hiroshima was so devastating, I can hardly imagine the destruction that would be inflicted from the Tzar Bomba.
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Apr
22
Google Calendar!
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Boy I sure do love my Google Apps! Today I’m learning about Google Calendar! I’ve been wanting to see if I could find a way to be able to view (not maintain, just view) my work calendar (Outlook) within my Google Calendar as well as maintain personal items on the Google Calendar. This will allow [...]
Apr
21
Christ for Cows!
Filed Under Food, Health, Science, Uncategorized, Viewing Suggestions | Leave a Comment
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Apr
21
Death and Taxes
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TheBudgetGraph.com is a very cool site with a visual system of where your taxes go. You can even buy a print version to frame and hang on your wall! Check it out!
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Apr
15
S.30 – Hope Offered through Principled and Ethical Stem Cell Research Act
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I’m a little disappointed to say that both Maine Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted ‘yay’ for S.30 which effectively bans forevermore stem cell research. At first glance this looks like a bill in support of Stem Cell research but since it was sponsored and fully supported by Republicans you can likely guess that [...]
Apr
15
Good Samaritan Merchant
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This guy is just trying to help out the local community and maybe drum up a little extra goodwill to help out business at the same time. It made me chuckle…
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Apr
7
Updates
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I’ve finally brought all of my writing from the old site over to Wordpress. I didn’t want them cluttering up the new posts though so I placed them at the beginning. You can find them all the in the December archives.
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Apr
7
Firebug
Filed Under Computing, Firefox, Viewing Suggestions | Leave a Comment
I’m using a new addon for Firefox called Firebug. It allows you to pop up a small window on the bottom of the screen that displays the HTML and CSS of the page you are currently looking at. You can edit the code and it will make real time changes to the page as you [...]




