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Interesting: America’s use of gasoline plunged by 15% in just two years after the oil shocks of 1979. (See this chart for historical perspective.) In 1978, Americans used 7.412 million barrels of gasoline per day; by 1980, that usage had collapsed to
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f’n Johann
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Woo Hoo! Racing in Vegas. All that’s needed now are strippers and comp’ed drinks. Wish I could get someone to pay for me to go
Category: Geek
links for 2007-01-24
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Ron Paul for President! Best idea I’ve heard since Kinky for Governor!
links for 2007-01-23
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I don’t know why this appeals to me so much…
links for 2007-01-19
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F'n Lawyers
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So, the longer that Puerto drags on without any convictions or anything other than allegations, the more I do feel sympathy for Basso and Ullrich
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I’d buy one for me in a heartbeat, ‘specially if I knew it were funding one for the rest of the world
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Can’t Cipo deduct billions for ego maintenance as a business expense?
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Oh, snap! Man, I feel like I’m back in college. Let’s go find a 12 pack of cheap beer and blast us some Kilrathi
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Free will vs. Determinism. I cannot count the hours I’ve spent wondering…
Nike+ Dissected
Hey, so the folks over at Spark Fun Electronics dissected the Nike+ sensor –
There is no MEMs accelerometer! The foot pod was designed to activate a simple piezoelectric sensor to monitor how long your weight is on the foot (the faster you run, the shorter amount of time spent on one foot).
This is interesting, especially in light of the treadmill data from the other day… need to think now..
Oh, and thanks to Mark for the link
Blogged with Flock
For file under "Stuff I still need to get around to”
links for 2007-01-18
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“I suspect that children will eventually support some kind of thin-client email-to-affection gateway. From an evolutionary standpoint, it may be the only solution that scales.” LOL
links for 2007-01-17
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Pretty slick. Also, reminds me that I’ve got to do some fooling around under the hood here –
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Extending the war on doping
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I need an abs workout. Maybe then I’ll find them. I know they’re down there, somewhere in the attic of the shed for my love machine.
links for 2007-01-13
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Sucks to be Floyd. Having had several months to dwell on this, I think I actually believe he’s innocent now, and that there is a widespread conspiracy at the French doping lab to strip the American of his title.
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Interesting
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Ah, the Splendid Splinter on ice – always good for discussion
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William Shatner – rapidly regaining his status as the coolest “Has Been” ever …. Now to drag that album up out of my iTunes black hole..
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me like. me want. This would be the Bomb – keep a bluetooth keyboard and mouse at the desk, then drag this around…. Wonder if I could send mine in for a mod?
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EFF is fighting the good fight, if you’re in favor of information being accessable. The ACLU for the 21st century.
links for 2007-01-12
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Interesting, but I hope he’s wrong. Here’s an alternate take: Apple WANTS DRM to die. As noted, they don’t make much money on content from the iTunes Store, and the overhead has got to be huge.
But, unlike Microsoft, Apple has CONSISTIENTLY kept their