George and Big Toe Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I need to clarify something, because there have been a lot of rumors floating around the Internet since the news broke Friday that George Hotz had hacked an iPhone, unlocking it so you can use it with any mobile phone company. Big Toe and George did in …
From the BBC: Two Somali journalists have been killed in the capital Mogadishu in separate attacks within hours of each other. The owner of HornAfrik radio and television, Ali Iman Sharmake, died when his car exploded after apparently running over a landmine. He had just been to the funeral of one of his leading radio …
squirrelOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Some random notes arising from cleaning off my desk and related spaces in my brain. Not sure this hangs together, but I need to put it somewhere so I can get on with my afternoon: Walking this morning with Lissa and Sadie along Embudo Arroyo, a concrete arroyo in Albuquerque’s Northeast …
Yesterday afternoon’s service for Tim Moy was impossibly sad and impossibly beautiful. Looking around Keller Hall, I was amazed at the different communities who Tim had touched so deeply, from the other parents at Luke’s elementary school to the big thinkers at Sandia’s Advanced Concepts group to his students to the faculty to the stalwart …
The blogger known as Kite String and Key thinks Matt Groening is partly to blame for U.S. opposition to nuclear power: For almost 20 years, Matt Groening has perpetuated the fear of nuclear generation in the United States. Also, I think, our disdain for fat white guys. And rascally kids. Groening’s very likely to blame …
I don’t normally double-post, but there are issues involved in this that are of relevance here as well as at the Journal. Reporters depend on smart people to explain things to them. That generally means people who are intimately involved in the subject at hand. When the subject matter is an issue of controversy, that …
From Plastic Manzikert: Nuclear Power is not the only option, but it is a valid option. There are flaws, of course – it’s more expensive than carbon dioxide emitting power generators. That’s an economic problem, and as the world moves away from fossil fuels, that disadvantage will go down.
Many years ago, some friends of mine did one of the all-time great April Fool’s jokes. (Note to readers. It was a joke. A hoax.) They buried a cast of a fossil dinosaur and a fossil human, and staged and documented an elaborate excavation. (Note to readers: the fossils were fake.) The “scientists” doing the …
Sometimes it’s not the main story but the sidebars that really deliver the goods: Telstra says it may have to install temporary mobile phone towers in Sydney’s west to replace ones which were damaged overnight when a man went on a rampage in a restored army tank. (Via Malcolm)
Belshaw captures well a certain strangeness about our current governance: This isn’t a liberal or conservative thing. It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a loon thing. Where did these people come from?