If this holds up, it could be huge.
Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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Terrorism Unveiled has an interesting article on Mohammad Reza Taheri Azar. The bulk of the article is a letter by Taheri Azar explaining his motives.
In the name of Allah, the merciful, and compassionate
To whom it may concern:
I’m writing this letter to inform you of my reasons for [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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Once people were ashamed of cowardice, apathy, and betrayal. Today’s pacifist, through the alchemy of complete narcissism, transmutes these failings into preening self-satisfaction. Pioneers in this field were the disgusting Not in Our Name crowd, whose very name proclaims their belief that the world revolves about them.
More recently the so-called Christian Peacemaker Teams have been [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.
Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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On various Mac sites I have seen pained and mystified comments asking why anyone would want to run XP on a perfectly good Mac. Wrong question. Of course no one wants to do that. But what about a Windows laptop with Apple industrial design, and capable of dual booting OS X? That would be sweet.
Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by pwyll
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I rarely work from home, but today I had to take care of a sick dog. My 13 year old lab came back from the hospital after a case of HGE. I stayed to keep an eye on her.
The LAN at work is a bunch of Windows boxes behind a Sonicwall firewall. I installed the [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by pwyll
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