Thursday, November 17, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Baseball Post-Season Awards
Physicist successfully predict Cy Young Award winner
Using on-base percentage, slugging average, times on base, and total bases to calculate the MVP (aka "The QUAD")
I like the QUAD. Makes sense to me, espicially if Hafner has a full season and wins the MVP next year.
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Using on-base percentage, slugging average, times on base, and total bases to calculate the MVP (aka "The QUAD")
I like the QUAD. Makes sense to me, espicially if Hafner has a full season and wins the MVP next year.
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Friday, November 11, 2005
Electronic Voting, Not Good Enough
Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
GAO Report: ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed
Science Friday discussion with Avi Rubin
GAO Report: ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed
Science Friday discussion with Avi Rubin
Thursday, November 10, 2005
The Ominous Parallels
US Congress may probe leaks in secret CIA prisons story
So - Congressional Republicans want to find out if another Republican leaked the "secret CIA prison" information rather than investigate if the CIA is shipping terror suspects to Eastern Bloc countries. In other cases a whistle blower is a good thing (e.g., Republican Senator Chuck Grassley co-sponsored whistleblower protections in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). And if finding the source of leaks is so important why didn't Congress investigate how forged documents became material for a State of The Union speech and the basis for going to war in Iraq? There was more outrage over Dan Rather using a forged document on 60 Minutes. At least someone at CBS lost their job because of it.
The Ominous Parallel is that in today's Republican party loyalty trumps all else; if this were a story about Communist China no one would be surprised by a story like this. Why do we fight if we are becoming more like our adversary?
So - Congressional Republicans want to find out if another Republican leaked the "secret CIA prison" information rather than investigate if the CIA is shipping terror suspects to Eastern Bloc countries. In other cases a whistle blower is a good thing (e.g., Republican Senator Chuck Grassley co-sponsored whistleblower protections in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). And if finding the source of leaks is so important why didn't Congress investigate how forged documents became material for a State of The Union speech and the basis for going to war in Iraq? There was more outrage over Dan Rather using a forged document on 60 Minutes. At least someone at CBS lost their job because of it.
The Ominous Parallel is that in today's Republican party loyalty trumps all else; if this were a story about Communist China no one would be surprised by a story like this. Why do we fight if we are becoming more like our adversary?
Miami Hockey Back In The Top Ten
Miami Hockey Cracks Top 10 in National Polls
USA TODAY/American Hockey men's poll
Nov. 7, 2005
Team (first-place votes) Record Points LW
1. Colorado College (30) 9-1-0 502 1
2. Michigan (2) 7-1-1 474 3
3. Cornell (2) 3-1-0 408 4
4. Maine 8-2-0 392 2
5. Wisconsin 6-1-1 369 10
6. Michigan State 5-1-1 353 8
7. Denver 5-3-0 282 9
8. Vermont 7-1-0 250 7
9. Boston College 3-2-1 197 11
10. Miami (Ohio) 5-1-0 186 15
USA TODAY/American Hockey men's poll
Nov. 7, 2005
Team (first-place votes) Record Points LW
1. Colorado College (30) 9-1-0 502 1
2. Michigan (2) 7-1-1 474 3
3. Cornell (2) 3-1-0 408 4
4. Maine 8-2-0 392 2
5. Wisconsin 6-1-1 369 10
6. Michigan State 5-1-1 353 8
7. Denver 5-3-0 282 9
8. Vermont 7-1-0 250 7
9. Boston College 3-2-1 197 11
10. Miami (Ohio) 5-1-0 186 15
Friday, November 04, 2005
Michael Brown's E-mail Around Katrina Time
brown_emails.pdf
On August 29th Brown writes:
Later that day:
On the morning of August 29th water was quickly rising in New Orleans.
On September 4th Brown received an E-mail from Sharon Worthy with the Subject 'Your Shirt':
For any Republican apologists who may be wondering - Bush gets blamed for the Katrina response because he hired people like Brown.
On August 29th Brown writes:
"I got it at Nordtroms. Email McBride and make sure she knows! Are you proud of me? Can I quit now? Can I go home?"
Later that day:
"If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I ama [sic] fashion god."
On the morning of August 29th water was quickly rising in New Orleans.
On September 4th Brown received an E-mail from Sharon Worthy with the Subject 'Your Shirt':
"Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt... all shirts. Even the President rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow.
In this crises and on TV you just need to look more hard-working...ROLL UP THE SLEEVES!"
For any Republican apologists who may be wondering - Bush gets blamed for the Katrina response because he hired people like Brown.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Diesel Honda's In The U.S.?
Honda to develop diesels for North America
A diesel CR-V would be an awesome vehicle.
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A diesel CR-V would be an awesome vehicle.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Reverse Engineering Absinthe
I'll probably never drink absinthe but this is an interesting article nevertheless.
The Mystery of the Green Menace
The last paragraph of the above story mentions Perique tobacco. There is only one small farm in the world growing this strain of tobacco and it is near Convent, LA. Megan's maternal lineage is from this area.
Louisiana Life has an article about this crop and farm.
[via Wired]
The Mystery of the Green Menace
The last paragraph of the above story mentions Perique tobacco. There is only one small farm in the world growing this strain of tobacco and it is near Convent, LA. Megan's maternal lineage is from this area.
Louisiana Life has an article about this crop and farm.
[via Wired]
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