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Archive for November, 2006
links for 2006-11-30
links for 2006-11-27
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Some key facts and figures that are good to have to hand whenever anyone trots out the myth of the US Social Security program going bankrupt.
Al Gore
It is my belief that the US media killed Gore’s election chances. And would do so again, were he to run in 2008. Perhaps to prove that they weren’t wrong in 200o or something. Seriously, read any recent article by one of the worthy pundits at WaPo or NYTimes and as soon as they have finished mentioning that An Inconvenient Truth is interesting they’ll wander of into a discussion of his clothes or his mannerisms.
I leave actually proving any of this with examples as an excercise for the reader.
links for 2006-11-14
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992 non-coding regions that have changed rapidly in humans compared to 109,557 more static ones are linked to genes regulating neuron connectivity.
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Jon Scalzi edited the SF Cliche editon of Subterranean magazine. The print run sold out. The pdf has been made available. Free pulp cliche sci-fi. Go. Read.
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“Conservatism” has only one real definition, only one definition that matters: “that which ‘conservatives’ and the leaders they support do when in power.” One knows it by how its proponents “conservatives” actually govern and by who and what they s
links for 2006-11-11
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See, I want to add this feed to my list. But what the hell do I categorize it as? Seriously, check out some of these maps. They’re strange.
links for 2006-11-09
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A complete listing of the articles in “How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic,” a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming.
links for 2006-11-05
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The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the “alternative interrogation methods” that their captors used to get them to talk.
Today
12.November.2006 at 00:19 UTC · Filed under Personal Commentary
Grandad K. fought in Europe (Italy, mostly). Grandad B. wasn’t posted overseas, he was building airfields and fuel storage depots for home defense in NZ. RIP both of you, and all the others. Never forget, never again.
It is both sad and heartening that with each passing year it becomes more difficult to buy a poppy. Sad because it means there are fewer veterans to buy from, heartening for the same reason. There hasn’t been a generational war in more than 50 years here. Unfortunately, with the war in Afghanistan, the poppy is more symbolic than ever, and we have more soldiers to mourn. Now I have to go watch the All Blacks vs. Les Bleus. Both teams will have poppies embroidered on their jerseys.
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