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{ Monthly Archives } October 2008

Art Class

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2008 10 28 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

Spock’s World

According to Star Trek, Spock’s homeworld Vulcan is a planet of ε Eridani (or 40 Eridani A, but I hold out for ε Eridani.) Well, it turns out that recent studies suggest the ε Eridani system is actually very similar to ours, with a high probability of having reasonably sized planets in the inner system. [...]

2008 10 28 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

A Feminist on Sarah Palin

For the sin of being a Christian personally opposed to abortion, Palin is being pilloried by the inside-the-Beltway Democrat feminist establishment. (Yes, she is anti-abortion. And yes, instead of buying organic New Zealand lamb at Whole Foods, she joins other Alaskans in hunting for food. That’s it. She is not a right-wing nut, and all [...]

2008 10 27 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

Derivatives and such

One of the many things that contributed to the finaincial crisis were “derivatives” — that is, financial instruments that derive their values from some other instrument. Here’s a new blog discussing them; it looks pretty good.

2008 10 27 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

That’s a Delicious Slime Mold

Slime molds are inherently cool.

2008 10 27 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

More Vote Fraud?

Warren Throckmorton has it, via Palestra.

2008 10 26 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

Polls and the Election

Posted this as a comment at Just One Minute, and then decided to put it here as well. “Kimji” is a commenter on JOM. Kimji dropped this one on the other thread: If there are so many of them, they aren’t outliers. The high ones aren’t outliers any more than the low ones are. Which [...]

2008 10 26 Charlie In Passing Comments (2)

I Love Jeri Thompson

2008 10 25 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

VDH on SP

First, there turns out to be no standard of objectivity in contemporary journalism. Palin’s career as a city councilwoman, mayor, and governor of Alaska was never seen as comparable to, or — indeed, in terms of executive experience — more extensive than, Barack Obama’s own legislative background in Illinois and Washington. Somehow we forgot that [...]

2008 10 25 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)

Furry Ninjas

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2008 10 24 Charlie In Passing Comments (0)