Category: Geek

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a link, but this is a good one. The engineer in me loves the metric system. My soul, however, digs the quirks of Imperial Measures.

Kick butt. Where do I sign for supporting this? Incidentally, I’d be happy to talk to anyone interested in working in engineering. I’ve got both government and industry experience, and have flirted with leaving engineering for management, and have found t

He’s got a blog. Who knew? Now to look up Dave Barry’s blog again…

Slipstream’s a team to watch – physiological baselines on all their riders, minimum number of out-of-competition tests in the rider contracts, and signing good riders left and right. They’re not a “Pro Tour” team, but after the fireworks between the owner

Go Levi.

Not that it makes him eligible to race in the TdF. The witchhunt is hurting competition – time for a version of “Truth and Reconciliation” instead of heavy-handness.

Aside from non-existient coverage in the UK of the Tour, it sounds like ’07 is doing what it can to provide good racing. Most interesting news from today? Thor Hushvold is a Buddhist. Just seems somewhat out of place with someone that big and absolutely v

The book here sounds fascinating, and espouses a point that I’ve felt for a long time – ‘Science is rather a state of mind,’ Angier argues and, as such, it should inform everything. ‘It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but ta

Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I dooooooooooo…. I SO want to head down to NYC to check this out…

Even if it’s not trucked halfway around the world, bottled water is bad, bad, bad.

Cool – Wii is fitness gear. Can we use the proposed tax subsidy for this?

Absolutely great! More mileage out of the conspiracy theory, and another chance to pull out the X-Files DVDs…

So, there’s the old bit about people becoming more conservative as they age. I’d wonder about that, as I’m tending to agree more with the New Republic as I age (though maybe it’s a sign that their editoral staff is ageing, too). In any case, they’ve got a