Monthly Archives: November 2005

Employers now have a tool for determining who to hire. Simply eliminate anyone who attended school in Kansas. Meanwhile, the Dover, PA school board that pushed “intelligent design” into the curriculum was completely replaced in yesterday’s election. One final thing … Read More →

Please vote today. Tags: vote

If you’re a physics geek, gravity waves are either real or the stuff of science fiction. Now scientists in Germany and Washington state are seeking to prove once and for all whether they actually exist. Tags: gravity relativity

The Ultimate Star Trek Collection, 212 DVDs containing damn near everything from the movies and television shows except the animated series. Tags: Star Trek DVD

IMG 0037 Originally uploaded by tommasz. This Sunday was the Pull The Plug Regatta in Pittsford. It’s held each year on the weekend before they drain the canal for winter. My daughter Liz rows for Brighton in the Novice Girls … Read More →

The Amazon Mechanical Turk claims to be a way to earn cash by performing tasks that humans do better than computers. You get to choose what to work on and when, so the amount of money you earn is dependent … Read More →

Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails, was allowed to visit some of the areas of New Orleans most heavily damaged by Katrina. His pictures of the Lower 9th Ward are particularly heartbreaking. However, I do share Chuck Taggart’s curiosity as … Read More →

Repeat after me: deer are not cute, they’re dangerous vermin who need to be controlled like any other vermin. Tags: vermin