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Category 4 Hurricane Gustav

Posted in global warming, hurricane, tagged , , , on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The forecasters are a little loopy for not telling people this thing is going to be a cat4 or cat5 on landfall.  They’ve under forecast this thing since the beginning. The reality is Gustav will spend almost the longest possible time over the warmest Gulf waters.  It’s going to spend 2 days over the warmest [...]

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Questions and response to Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel according to Pelosi is just wrong http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/OPINION/808280310/ …and various newspapers around the country on 8/29/08 So there are several questions to be considered and answered, if possible, initiated by your swirl around issues of abortion, law and woman’s rights, not the least of which is free speech. Consideration of these [...]

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Sarah Palin is a Gun Toting Woman! And other media lameness

Posted in media, politics, tagged , , , , on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well, this just in.  The election has been reduced to us comparing a celebrity ticket with a gun toting maverick woman ticket! ok, ok, i’m being sensational.  Or am I? I just don’t know how the media can do so little ACTUAL reporting/investigation.  This morning when it wasn’t clear that McCain was picking Palin, the [...]

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Weather and Political Prediction

Posted in data mining, politics, weather, tagged , , , , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I think these pictures show you the limits of our ability to predict (even when 1000s of people and CPUs are put to work). TS Hanna: Presidential Election Polls: I’ve talked about it a lot on this blog.  No bigger point to make here other than the idea that we’re not going to be able [...]

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GoGo In Flight WiFi Service

Posted in Computers, analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, traffic, tagged , , , , , , on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m blogging on a plane 38000 feet in the sky somewhere over the midwest. This is great.  We now can be productive or entertained or contacted on a plane – basically anywhere now. The service is fast.  I’m getting 1.7 mbps down and 300 kbps up.  That’s great! Let me tell you a funny story [...]

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When Is a Good Time to Question the Existence of God

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was recently told, “War time was not the time to question the existence of God” Just like the America’s intelligencia tolerated slavery and bigotry in our history, I sometimes get the inkling that we tolerate the hate and superstitions of organized and unorganized religion and its blurring influences because there is never a good [...]

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Can you spell Hypocrisy?

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, tagged , , , on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Bush holds a news conference from China to decry the Russian-Georgian conflicts. Does anyone smell hypocrisy here? The implication that Bush has any business other than diplomatic sensitivity to what is going on that continent is amazing. Like, he is offering access to the high-road… Aug 15th, 2008… from the lawn of the White House… [...]

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iPhone App Store Overhype – Repost!

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, media, online advertising, traffic, tagged , , , , on August 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ah yes, reality.  Finally the novelty wears off for people. Others are reporting that making iPhone apps won’t make you instantly rich. Go figure.  As I say below, as one had to do was Do The Math. 6 months ago and you might have saved a buck or 10,000. Below is what I posted on [...]

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Quantum Computing Anyone?

Posted in philosophy, quantum mechanics, research, search, speculation, tagged , , , , , , on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Jason Cawley gives us another immense post with a semi formal argument about quantum computing and the universe as a quantum computer.  It is a response to Hector Zenil’s interactions/postings with/about Seth Lloyd. I’m in agreement with this: At some point you have to go look at the actual world. And when you do, you [...]

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I Can Has Cheezburger – I Canz Not Spelz

Posted in data mining, media, search, traffic, tagged , , , , on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Talk about language.  For the longest time I had a post up about ICanHasCheezburger.com.  It gets more steady traffic than most of my other posts.  After quick research, it’s because this blog is listed 4th on google for “I can haz cheezburger.”  This was quite hilarious to me. Funny thing is… and, I mean, really [...]

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