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Excellent article @ PCWorld written by Mark Sullivan on the 5 most anti-tech organizations in America. History is replete with examples of products, companies, and industries that fail to adapt and adopt to new technology. These 5 will be next. From PCWorld by Mark Sullivan Their names keep coming up over
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House #1 A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas — add on a pool, a pool house and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill
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Branded as “The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See”, but really a reasoned approach to thinking about global warming. Watch, see what you think, and comment. [youtube]zORv8wwiadQ[/youtube] A reasoned response here: [youtube]ucs40x1aBp0[/youtube]
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Bruce Schneier has written an excellent piece on terrorism and why it almost always fails to produce the outcome its purveyors hope. But like all cognitive biases, correspondent inference theory fails sometimes. And one place it fails pretty spectacularly is in our response to terrorism. Because terrorism often results in
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Well, I am not advocating that we follow the Chinese lead here, but one wonders what effect this type of policy would have on our own bureaucrats? Quoting from the MSNBC article: China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol
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John J. Miller writes about Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle, where two teachers banned the popular children’s toy Legos. Well, actually Legos were banned and then reintroduced. The explanation is really best left to the “experts”–the teachers. In an article published in Rethinking Schools, they explain it
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According to the folks over at Snopes.com, this urban legend appears to be true. They have a great explanation of the refund amounts as well as the reason almost everyone qualifies for this one time credit. Make sure you take advantage of this and pass this along to everyone