December 2010
12 posts
“The Constitution that was actually enacted and formally amended creates islands...”
– Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution
Dec 23rd
Dec 22nd
“This world is amazing, and I’m going to experience more of it thanks to...”
– xkcd: Sickness
Dec 20th
2 notes
“My point being, I’m saying God doesn’t exist. I’m not saying faith doesn’t...”
– Ricky Gervais, A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist
Dec 20th
1 note
“The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the...”
– U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, striking down the health care mandate
Dec 17th
“The act of driving is not a constitutional right, it’s a privilege, and so...”
– John Eastman, Chapman University on a judge’s federal ruling against health insurance mandates
Dec 17th
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Backscatter Scanners May Represent DNA Replication...
B. S. Alexandrov, A. R. Bishop and K. O. Rasmussen of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with V. Gelev and A. Usheva of Harvard Medical School wrote a paper in October of 2009 entitled DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field. It’s a biophysics paper that talks about the probabilistic effects of terahertz radiation exposure—the same range used in the TSA’s...
Dec 17th
Collection of Translations from PR-Speak to...
April 7, 2003 Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s ‘QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview’ Announcement from PR-Speak to English April 21, 2005 Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia February 16, 2007 Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve...
Dec 16th
Dec 2nd
I, Reader
I was reading the news and when it was too painful, going to look at anything else—affluence, gossip, porn, horoscopes, status updates—trying to figure out what was happening, was there a way to stop it, or a way to feel hope, or even just to feel, and with each click I believed I increased my chance of seeing the way out by reading more and more. But the more I saw, the more I was lost, and the...
Dec 2nd
“Time exists in order that it doesn’t happen all at once … space exists so that...”
– Susan Sontag, “The Novelist and Moral Reasoning”
Dec 2nd
Hooking in your Rails 3 Engine or Railtie... →
Useful enumeration of all Rails 3 initialization hooks.
Dec 1st