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Fukushima
If you follow this story (yes, it's still going on) this is an interesting site.
Fairewinds Associates
The chap in the video updates is Arnold Gundersen who was a senior execute at Three Mile Island and now chief engineer of energy consulting company Fairewinds Associates. -
Should we let the news lie?
Deadline for submissions: Feb 9th, 2011
Could this be in any way related to the new News channel that Harper and Murdoch had their New York meeting about? It could just be a coincidence, right?
The Notice of Consultation 2011-14 seeks (among several changes) to amend REGULATIONS RESPECTING SPECIALTY SERVICES TELEVISION NETWORKS section 3 from ( Read more... ) -
This is not Canada. You have no civli rights.
That's what the man in the uniform says.
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The problem of ambiguity
The fundamental problem of ambiguity springs from the tools we choose to use. In our case a lot of our problem statements are implemented in English (or variants of English) which is a language that is notoriously unsuited to the task due to poor or multiply orthogonal word typing and a profound lexical looseness (properties that make it much more ( Read more... ) -
What a great day.
Driving with the top down, heading east along Broadway with the October sun low in the south. The radio's cranked to a song that sounds like it's from the sixties and the world coming at me looks like it was shot on 70s film stock ( Read more... ) -
Fox News North
So, Sun TV wanted to start a cable news channel. The idea seems to have started when Stephen Harper, Kory Teneycke (his communications director), Roger Ailes (president of Fox News, political adviser to many Repulicans, media consultant to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and the man who hired George Bush's first cousin John ( Read more... ) -
Everything gives you cancer ...
Fructose gives you cancer or at least pancreatic cancer cells think it's the best tonic there is. They love the stuff and it gives them a real boost.
Fluoride gives you bone cancer which is an acceptable tradeoff for cavities, I'm sure (except it can wreck your teeth!On the other hand, many popular and profitable medicines don't cause cancer and ( Read more... ) -
Net Neutrality IS free speech.
Here is a short article by Al Franken
Meanwhile Google and Verizon have been having their own talks on "Net Neutrality".
According to the New York Times, the agreement between Google and Verizon "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."i.e. it ( Read more... )
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