http://explorations.chasrmartin.com Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:28:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in the days of the construction of the DEW line, Air Force men would be stationed in extremely remote locations above the Arctic Circle. Because of the weather, and the state of communications in the 50's, these locations were very isolated, especially in winter. New personnel rotated ... http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/07/numbers/ http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/07/there-may-be-certain-risks/ This is rather cool. Someone has set up a nice, single static page web site where you can copy odd characters (like  ⌘, which is, believe it or not, a single character) to insert in text. http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/getting-special-characters-quickly/ Wow. [caption id="attachment_639" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="33,175 between 0000Z 6 September and 0000Z 7 September"][/caption] I've got to think about getting a tipjar. http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/33175/ Frankly, trying to keep up on this is weaing me out. I need to do a few other things today; will catch up on comments and new rumors this evening. http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/more-rumors-coming/ Updated as of 2008-09-07 0845: This list has grown quite long and I'm finding people referring to the rumors more and more often by number, so I'm going to add all new rumors at the end, so the numbering won't change any more. And see above. Also, I'm scheduled ... http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/ Here's traffic for the last couple weeks: [caption id="attachment_600" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Traffic this morning"][/caption] The spike on the right is traffic since my Palin Rumors page started to attract attention. The high stretch to its right was me playing the the words "sarah heath Palin" and "bikini", "nude". That spike to the ... http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/sarah-palin-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/ Peter Diamandis on space: http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/the-next-giant-leap/ [Bumped and updated:] Martha Zoller has kindly permitted me to let people download of the MP3 of my virginal radio interview appearance. If you haven't already, you can find her show at Martha's Site. [caption id="attachment_458" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Me, on the Martha Zoller show"][/caption] My radio appearance as a zipped MP3 ... http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/see-i-can-prove-it/ "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/von-moltkes-law/