Archive for September, 2006

Torture and civilization

Friday, September 8th, 2006

“Ensuring torture is totally banned under American law is a touchstone issue that defines our very civilization, to include its continued embrace of Englightenment values, a belief in progress in the face of adversity, and ensuring that our most odious enemies are not successful in having us sully our human rights leadership, one so hard [...]

Split the bill

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Blake sent me this article from the Onion: “Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill.”
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The Starship Zend-erprise

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Hello
Thank you again for submitting a proposal for speaking at the Zend/PHP Conference in October. We have had an overwhelming response to our Call for Papers and, as a result, have had a difficult time in deciding which proposals to accept. After examining your proposal carefully, I am writing to inform you that it [...]

Tony Blair exits

Friday, September 8th, 2006

The New York Times had an interesting article on the Labour Party and Tony Blair.
Apparently as Tony Blair gets pushed out, Gordon Brown will be replacing him. The article then talks about the uneasy alliance between the two:

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The moon… hypersaturated

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I noticed on digg an interesting thread on the color of the moon with an amazing photo taken by Noel Carboni:

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