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Another Perspective on Amazon as Publisher & Bookseller, Plus a Contrarian View on Disruption in Publishing — Long but worth the read.
Cosmic dust contains organic matter from stars, study finds — Such chemical complexity was thought to arise only from living organisms.
Asteroid Lutetia may have core of hot melted metal — Huh. I find this really surprising.
Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules
Python blood holds key to heart disease cure
SMBC on the dangers of Biblical literalism — This is hilarious, and one I never thought of.
Justice Scalia speaks for himself on death penalty, not the Catholic Church — I don’t want a justice sitting on the Supreme Court who submits blindly to religious authority or who holds his religion above the laws of the land. So keep your job, Justice Scalia. Just don’t pretend your church approves of the death penalty. Or that you aren’t like most people of faith, cherry-picking the teachings of your church that suit you best.
World power swings back to America — The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus.
Police Actions and Media Coverage of Occupy Wall Street
Bachmann’s ex-staff in New Hampshire calls campaign ‘dishonest’ and ‘cruel’ — Live by the self-obsessed counterfactual inanity, die by the self-obsessed counterfactual inanity.
?otD: What’s the worst drug you ever took?
10/28/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.75 hours (solid)
Weight: 220.0
Currently (re)reading: Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 5:18 am Fri October 28 2011 |
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Steve Buchheit
October 28th, 2011 at 5:50 amVicodin. Great for pain, but pushed me in to paranoid delusional territory. Fortunately, once I could convince my doctor to switch to darvocet the effects didn’t linger. Much.
Elf Sternberg
October 28th, 2011 at 9:14 amI would think that reducing the amount of insulin and cholesterol precursors would be the cure for heart disease by, you know, cutting down on the various white carbs (wheat, sugar, rice, potatoes), and upping your lean protein and fiber. That python article is yet another in the long list of “Americans want a pill that lets them sit on the couch all day watching TV and eating chips, yet see Brad Pitt in the mirror when they rise briefly long enough to step into the bathroom.”
As for Bachmann’s campaign, the difference between her and the other candidates, Romney included, is a matter of degree rather than distinctions: It’s the quantity of madness, not the quality.
David Frum wrote this morning,
Cora
October 28th, 2011 at 3:12 pmJustice Scalia is either a hypocrite or an idiot, because the Pope Benedict as well as his predecessor is opposed to the death penalty. So if Scalia wants to uphold the death penalty, he should find a better justification than his religion which is against it.
As for the “World power swings back to the US” article, dream on. Never mind that it’s just the Daily Telegraph pushing its irrational hatred of the EU and the Euro again.