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esommer.net : blog : archive : 2004 : 03
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 | my head keeps coming back to this image today: |
| My head, shoved back on |
| its base, only then realized |
| it had been floating. |
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| The press here are using "gezielte Tötung" to refer to the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin. The mind reels with visions of 1984. Can we imagine use of the term "targeted killing" or "conscious elimination" or "politically motivated culling" if the Palestine administration executed a successful hit on, say, a high-ranking Israeli general? Have we finally fallen over backwards onto our politically correct asses? |
| Cringely: Being efficient is contrary to IT's billable hour mindset. |
| What work would i get into today? |
| Material science: how to make unobtanium carbon nanotubes practically, to build a space elevator with. |
| Think about a soccer ball," Morgan says. "Sixty carbon atoms can arrange themselves into a soccer ball that's a very strong shape. Think about them then adding carbons in rings and stretching out the ends of that ball. This is what carbon nanotubes look like. They do have the right strength-to-weight ratio, properties. To actually build a cable you just have to work on them. It's kind of an engineering problem." |
| And or: photovoltaic film, to coat everything with, connect two wires and get current. |
| Hook this up to an electrolyte in a pot of water, to make h2 as power storage, later to be burnt in a fuel cell. |
| Combine: coat the elevator ribbon with this film -- enough to power the elevator-car-spacecraft with? |
| free & legal mp3s |
|  There's a separate site with all their older stuff, free to download. jeez.
If you do nothing else today, listen to this |
| Isn't it hypocritical to bash Bush while ignoring Putin? |
| I agree with almost everything negative i've read about Bush and the generally alarming erosion of basic rights under his administration -- |
| most recently, the jarring juxtaposition of |
| -- > touting the importance of democratic rights apropos Gerhard Schröder's visit to the US |
| .. our shared commitment to the values of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law .. |
| < -- announcing that prisoners might be kept in Guantanomo even after they have been cleared of charges by military tribunals, sort of Not only do we invent our own rules, but we get to break them, too. |
| Pentagon officials have confirmed that Guantanamo detainees may still be kept in detention, even if they are found not guilty by a military tribunal. |
| but why is so little said about what is happening to democracy under Putin? |
| Compare the conditions for the upcoming election in Russia with those of the widely lambasted recent one in Iran. |
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