Discovery Channel
Somehow, scientist have made light travel faster than light. By shooting a laser beam at an optical fiber it produced a clone light wave on the other side which then split, sending another wave to cancel out the initial wave while the new wave continued on. At least, that's how I understood it.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
In Europe
Summer Adventures in Prague
My friends Kimberly and Lizzy are currently in Prague doing whatever it is people do in Prague. Sounds like their trip has been very interesting so far.
BBC
Montenegro has narrowly voted in favor of independence. Currently, the Pro-Serbian groups are calling for a recount. Given the history of the Balkan region, it seems likely that it will become its own country. Kosovo probably isn't far behind.
My friends Kimberly and Lizzy are currently in Prague doing whatever it is people do in Prague. Sounds like their trip has been very interesting so far.
BBC
Montenegro has narrowly voted in favor of independence. Currently, the Pro-Serbian groups are calling for a recount. Given the history of the Balkan region, it seems likely that it will become its own country. Kosovo probably isn't far behind.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Horrible Premise Yet...
Apple
So I was watching movie previews on Apple and came across "District B13". The storyline is ridiculous. In a scant four years in the future, all the ghettos in Paris will be walled in to control crime. Somehow, a gang in one of these ghettos gets ahold of a nuclear bomb. Despite all this, the movie looks pretty awesome.
So I was watching movie previews on Apple and came across "District B13". The storyline is ridiculous. In a scant four years in the future, all the ghettos in Paris will be walled in to control crime. Somehow, a gang in one of these ghettos gets ahold of a nuclear bomb. Despite all this, the movie looks pretty awesome.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Chat Logs II
I like collecting my AIM conversations and as such I've been using DeadAIM to log all the chats I've had since NCSSM. I found that the amount of harddisk space the logs take up was a good judge of how often I chat with people. I made a post a little over a year ago of the top six people I chatted with and decided to see who I've chatted the most with in the past year. Since I'm on a new computer, the ranking only reflects the past year.
Robert remains number one on the list, while Celeste has taken second place from Helen. Albert, Kimberly, and Raya have been replaced by Joseph, Kate, and Carl, respectively. Whereas last year my top six took up 1/3 of my AIM chats, this year they are 42%. The single largest conversation was with Helen after having not talked to her for over a month, which surpassed my previous record conversation with Raya by 5 KB. Also, a new fact, Joseph holds the record for the highest number of individual conversations at 80.
Robert remains number one on the list, while Celeste has taken second place from Helen. Albert, Kimberly, and Raya have been replaced by Joseph, Kate, and Carl, respectively. Whereas last year my top six took up 1/3 of my AIM chats, this year they are 42%. The single largest conversation was with Helen after having not talked to her for over a month, which surpassed my previous record conversation with Raya by 5 KB. Also, a new fact, Joseph holds the record for the highest number of individual conversations at 80.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Minimum Wage Stuff
Daily Kos
Hillary Clinton has proposed a new minimum wage bill. It includes the same, stepped raise that was in last year's bill, but this time it includes an interesting attachment. After the initial raise, minimum wage would be tied to Congressional salaries. Meaning if Congressional salaries raise by 5%, minimum wage would rise 5%. I think this is brilliant, but it won't pass.
Hillary Clinton has proposed a new minimum wage bill. It includes the same, stepped raise that was in last year's bill, but this time it includes an interesting attachment. After the initial raise, minimum wage would be tied to Congressional salaries. Meaning if Congressional salaries raise by 5%, minimum wage would rise 5%. I think this is brilliant, but it won't pass.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Google Trends
Google
Google is testing a new service that shows search trends since 2004. You can even compare searches by separating words with a comma. Some of the results are interesting, such as for Waynesville, which had a nice spike last summer.
Google is testing a new service that shows search trends since 2004. You can even compare searches by separating words with a comma. Some of the results are interesting, such as for Waynesville, which had a nice spike last summer.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
The Elusive God-Shaped Hole
Times Online
One of the tenents of evangalical Christianity is that everyone is seeking some sort of spiritual fulfillment. From my own experience, many of my atheist friends seem to be perfectly content being atheist and it appears the Church of England is noticing the same thing. Interviews with young people, where they tried to subtly steer the conversation towards religion, showed that considerations of spirtual meanings and messages were ignored. People aren't so much deciding they no longer believe as they are just not thinking about it. There there is no conscious thought to it, there is no searching for spiritual fulfillment. When it's so easy to be content, it's much easier to forget about the intangible.
One of the tenents of evangalical Christianity is that everyone is seeking some sort of spiritual fulfillment. From my own experience, many of my atheist friends seem to be perfectly content being atheist and it appears the Church of England is noticing the same thing. Interviews with young people, where they tried to subtly steer the conversation towards religion, showed that considerations of spirtual meanings and messages were ignored. People aren't so much deciding they no longer believe as they are just not thinking about it. There there is no conscious thought to it, there is no searching for spiritual fulfillment. When it's so easy to be content, it's much easier to forget about the intangible.
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