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Human Terrain
This should be of interest to the anthropologists on my flist;
Paula Lloyd, the anthropologist and member of the Human Terrain program who was set on fire in Afghanistan, has passed away after two months in a coma. I have a few friends on Facebook who went to high school and college with her, and they have been very distraught over the news.
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2009 Goals
I hesitate to call them resolutions, as there isn't really anything earth shattering about them. However, I do think that these are realistic goals that need to be done this year.
- Lose 30 Pounds
- I started on the Hacker's Diet back in August, and have lost twenty pounds since then. I have noticed small changes in me, and I like that there is less of ( Read more... )
- Lose 30 Pounds
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WTF!
Can someone explain to me why the "liberal-biased main stream media" has yet to snuff out Governor Palin and her irresponsible name calling? She has direct connections to the Alaskan Independence Party, a pro-violence extremist group with ties to Iran, yet she gets to parade around and attempt to smear Obama as "anti-American"?
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Cuil, Part Deux
Seems I'm not the only one who didn't believe the hype. Now that their servers are working again, I can actually attempt to use it. For comparison, I'll try a simple, unique, single word search. Using my last name:- Google: 13,500 hits
- Yahoo!: 29,300 hits
- MSN / Live Search: 7,450 hits
- Ask: 1,410 hits
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- Google: 13,500 hits
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Cuil
Let's make a few assumptions about Cuil:- It is the latest, greatest, freshest and sweetest-smelling Web 2.0 company that ever lived
- Founded by the greatest minds to ever leave Google
- They have a bigger page index than Google
- Their privacy policy is second to none
- It really is pronounced "cool"
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787 Flight Deck Demonstrator
While it's not a "real" simulator by our standards, it's close. It is built mainly from parts that are commercially available, and most of the software is the same as what we run on the main engineering flight simulators.
The out-the-window scene is Microsoft Flight Simulator X, but the displays that the pilots use (what we call the heads down ( Read more... ) -
Random Political Satire Attempt
Yes, a crude Photoshop job (technically, it's Comic Life), but I think it needs to be said.
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