Archives for September 2009
Your Parents Must Be Proud
September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Current Events
What a bunch of f@#$ing cowards. From the article: Anti-G20 protesters rampaged through the city centre of Pittsburgh tonight, smashing up shops and throwing rocks at police, as officers used tear gas and baton-charges in an attempt to bring them under control. In riots which continued through the middle
Mea Culpa II
September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Misc
I couldn't take it anymore. Everywhere I look, it's there. Everyone is doing it. I can't swing a dead cat without hearing about it. Was I missing out on the next big thing because it was only being talked about over there? Twitter Yes, I scoffed it before (something about
Responsible Education
September 3, 2009 | Filed under: Current Events
I’m sure the President wasn’t expecting this level of uproar over his pep talk to the nation’s schoolchildren. Personally, I don’t think the idea of a speech is terrible and it doesn’t necessarily justify the amount of vitrol; although that somewhat depends on the content of the speech. On the
How Long is One Meter?
September 1, 2009 | Filed under: Geekery
One area I have always found interesting is the standardization of measurements; that locked in a vault somewhere there was some piece of metal—probably some rare alloy in a vacuum or at some specific temperature—that was exactly twelve inches long or weighed precisely one pound, and these were the standard