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What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar? |
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| Topic: Humor |
8:02 pm EDT, Sep 9, 2002 |
"SUBMIT A CRAZY PICTURE OF YOURSELF WEARING YOUR T-SHIRT HELL T-SHIRT AND...
IF YOUR PIC IS OUR FAVORITE OF THE MONTH WIN 5 FREE T-SHIRTS OF YOUR CHOICE!" What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar? |
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ScienceNOW -- Choi 2002 (826): 2 |
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| Topic: Science |
7:02 pm EDT, Sep 9, 2002 |
"By sticking tiny cannons on the backs of cockroaches to see how their recoil jars the insects' balance, researchers have added firepower to a new mathematical model that explains how roaches move so nimbly. The model has already helped them design a better robot bug. " ScienceNOW -- Choi 2002 (826): 2 |
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12:13 am EDT, Sep 8, 2002 |
this didn't have the results i would have imagined. it left me with slight guffaw. TotL: Geek Name |
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Simplicity, Unification, Parsimony, and Occam's Razor in Science |
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10:30 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
Interesting site with a bunch of in-depth info about Simplicity, Unification, Parsimony and Occam's Razor. snippet :
This principle goes back at least as far as Aristotle who wrote "Nature operates in the shortest way possible." Aristotle went too far in believing that experiment and observation were unnecessary. The principle of simplicity works as a heuristic rule-of-thumb but some people quote it as if it is an axiom of physics. It is not. It can work well in philosophy or particle physics, but less often so in cosmology or psychology, where things usually turn out to be more complicated than you ever expected. Perhaps a quote from Shakespeare would be more appropriate than Occam's razor: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.".
Simplicity, Unification, Parsimony, and Occam's Razor in Science |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
3:33 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
"Now, unlike other aggregators, memigo monitors how popular --or indifferent-- each link is to each user. When you visit memigo you are either explicity or implicitly rating each link that you see. Memigo intermittently compares your ratings to those of other users and then rates links according to how people like you have rated them. It also keeps track of how you and others like you rate individual sites by using your link ratings to rate the author and referring sites. So, when a new link pops up on the news sites or the weblog aggregators, it is quickly rated by the rating of its author and any referring sites." ugh memigo : help |
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3:31 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
The Current Mass Extinction: Human beings are currently causing the greatest
mass extinction of species since the extinction of
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If present trends
continue one half of all species on earth will be
extinct in 100 years. (For details see links below.)
MASS EXTINCTION UNDERWAY |
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News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic |
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| Topic: Technology |
3:30 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
"In July, according to Brightmail's latest interception figures, unsolicited bulk e-mail made up a whopping 36 percent of all e-mail traveling over the Internet, up from 8 percent about a year ago." ...could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers. "
News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic |
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Q328691 - August 30, 2002 PSS Hacking Alert |
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| Topic: Technology |
3:26 pm EDT, Sep 6, 2002 |
"The Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) Security Team is issuing an alert about an increased level of hacking activity that the PSS Security Team has been tracking. The activity seems to involve similar hacking attempts. These hacking attempts show similar symptoms and behaviors. The PSS Security team has isolated the major similarities. This article lists these similarities, so that you can take any appropriate action to:
Detect these hacking attempts.
Respond to any hacking attempts you detect." Q328691 - August 30, 2002 PSS Hacking Alert |
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