Sunday Jeremiad: Petty Prophets of the Blue Beast
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Won’t That Oxygen Ruin Your Plane Blade?
The way I see it, unless the material I’m working is going to split my tool in half, I’ll plane it. Laminated veneer lumber? Plywood? MDF? OSB? Epoxy? Plastic resin glue? Yup, I’ve planed them all. Here’s why: It’s easier to sharpen a handplane blade than it is to sharpen the blades in my electric jointer or planer. So I think a handplane is a great tool for dealing with engineered material. This is wacky chat, I know.
From Woodworking Magazine
Manual Windows. Manual Wipers. Same Thing.
From There, I fixed it.
I seem to recall something like this from Car Talk. but I thought the guys were joking :-)>
Monday night Irish class, March 8, 2010
Irish Class, March 8, 2010
Rang Gaeilge, 8ú lá Mí na Márta 2010
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A Sociologist looks at Facebook
Social Media — Backstage Pushed Forward
From my friend of more than 40 years, Sister Edith.
Ask yourself: Is Facebook/whatever frontstage or backstage for you? I can see both among my Facebook friends.
25 Years Ago
Tandy Trower …. was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday’s story on the future of Windows, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released.
Via Slashdot
Red flags in orbit
Coming this weekend
He did not foresee this
Vaccines and autism: Collected links
At the breakfast table this morning this subject came up, so I decided to put together this collection. It did not take long:
- AntiAntiVax: The Truth About The Evils Of Vaccination. A summary of the real medical evidence.
- Why do media report ‘the other side’ of scientific fact? by haddayr
- 5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News.
- An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
- Jenny McCarthy: spreading more dangerous misinformation
- Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?”
This is not an academic issue for me and mia_mcdavid.
Also, I have a big personal issue with the idea that anecdotes and media fluff are the same as real science: Back in the ’90’s somebody who followed that stuff once suggested that I had abused my children.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 