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3/24

Posted March 24, 2010 By Landis V

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-Online Full text of ACTA.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhoE4n4Idxs/Drunk-Histoy-Presents-Nikola-Tesla-NSFW Looks interesting. Worth checking out sometime.

“Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest. Scoff at none although they give Occasion.” — The Papers of George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour Something to work on.

http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596654&cid=31626326 Superb.

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/61.html How Fibre Lasers Work, includes a layman’s explanation of excited electron decay.

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3/4

Posted March 4, 2010 By Landis V

“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.” — Rita Mae Brown

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WAIIm73Kd3k/Researchers-Find-Way-To-Zap-RSA-Algorithm

http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/03/04/oh-so-thats-why-you-want-to-tax-gasoline/

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2/24

Posted February 24, 2010 By Landis V

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fyf7PjH9ryc/Hungarian-Electric-Car-Splits-Into-Two-Smaller-Cars Neat idea.  Read.

“Every now and then go away — for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.” — Leonardo DaVinci

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” — Maria Montessori

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/2048229/Turn-Your-Roomba-Into-a-Household-Google-Bot This looks like fun.  A Roomba remote control home indexing robot.

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2/18

Posted February 18, 2010 By Landis V

“I used to think it would take a global financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, who was a fiscal policy adviser to Senate Republican leaders and a witness to past bipartisan budget summits. “These days I wonder if this country is even governable.”

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2/16

Posted February 16, 2010 By Landis V

http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/ Neat article looking at the “overwhelming” effect of media, across many years.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592405525?ie=UTF8&tag=geekdad0320&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1592405525 “Geek Dad” book.  Geeky projects and activities for dads and kids to share.

http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ Comparing the value of the US Dollar, 1774 to present.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.  – George F. Will

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2/4

Posted February 4, 2010 By Landis V

“The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.” — Seneca

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Posted December 4, 2009 By Landis V

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. –Thomas Jefferson

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/2322205/Royal-Society-Releases-Historic-Science-Papers

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesimpledollar/~3/-bGSmUnSyM0/ Making Buyers – attachment of desire based on enjoyment of situation (i.e., TV show, movie, etc.)

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