'Famous' Dave resigning as head of BIA
Interesting:
'Famous' Dave resigning as head of BIA: "After less than a year on the job, Minnesota barbecue entrepreneur Dave Anderson says he's resigning as head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to return to the private sector.
'I felt that my calling in life is that of an Indian businessman,' Anderson, who is part Ojibwe, said in an interview Monday. 'I feel like I can do more on the outside than I can on the inside.'"
Wired News: A Century of Einstein
A nice article about the impact Einstien had to kick off the Century of Physics (20th Century). It is hard to grasp for someone like myself, born in 1978, to understand how far the world physics has come since 1905.
Check it out, a interesting read:
Wired News: A Century of Einstein: "If you think it's sometimes hard to understand how a teenager's mind works, have some sympathy for Albert Einstein's mother. When he was just a teenager, Einstein was pondering what a light wave would look like if he could observe it while moving at light speed"
Activists Urge Free Open Source Software
This is Fox News article on Open Source in Brazil. I'm not sure excatly how they'll takle this issue, but it should be interseting.
Check it out:
FOXNews.com - Business - Activists Urge Free Open Source Software: "John Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, told a gathering inside a packed warehouse that poor nations can't solve their problems unless they stop paying expensive software licensing fees."
Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Ruled Illegal (washingtonpost.com)
Another blow to the administration's attempts to try detainees in thier modern Alcatraz in Cuba.
Check it out:
Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Ruled Illegal (washingtonpost.com): "A federal judge ruled this morning that special military tribunals the Pentagon has used to determine the likely guilt of most of the 500 men held at a prison in Guantanamo Bay -- and to justify their continued imprisonment -- are illegal."
Nutty for Nino - Antonin Scalia for chief justice. Seriously.
Slate has a full stock of good stories today, here is another:
Nutty for Nino - Antonin Scalia for chief justice. Seriously. By Nicholas Thompson
The idea of Antonin Scalia as chief justice of the Supreme Court gives liberals the heebie-jeebies. To the left, elevating the deeply conservative justice would lead to disaster, death, and destruction. But they're wrong. "
Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy (Slate)
Check out this great article about Hilary's positioning for the Democratic party in '06 and '08. Possibly putting herself in the race for '08 presidential race, or more interesetingly a Vice-Presidental run with John Edwards as the banner carrier. Interesting
Checkout the story:
Safe, Legal, and Never - Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy. By William Saletan: "Two days ago, marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Hillary Clinton gave a speech outlining her views on abortion, contraception, and abstinence. 'Clinton Seeking Shared Ground Over Abortions,' said the front page of the New York Times. 'Hillary in the middle on values issues,' agreed the Washington Times. But Clinton isn't trying to end the abortion war. She's repositioning her party to win it."
How I Learned To Pitch - A Seattle Mariners coach teaches me to throw a change-up, and much more. By Eric Liu
Here is a good article from Slate. check it out, baseball meets teaching theory:
How I Learned To Pitch - A Seattle Mariners coach teaches me to throw a change-up, and much more. By Eric Liu: "Over the last two and a half years, I traveled across the country in search of life-changing teachers and mentors from all different walks. I met race-car drivers, Indian potters, ballet dancers, rappers, research scientists, law professors, Montessori teachers, aerobatic pilots, master carpenters, and many others. The book that emerged from those travels is called Guiding Lights. It tells the stories of several of these remarkable people and the ways they transform their apprentices. And it's the basis for a series of four pieces on Slate and NPR's Day to Day in which figures from the book teach me to do something new."
iGrill.co.uk
You must check this out! One of the best "case mods" I have ever seen.
Check it out:
iGrill.co.uk: "Inspired by a thinkgeek april fool's day joke, the iGrill is a 600Mhz Mini-ITX motherboard, an 80GB hard drive, and a 250W PSU, running Gentoo Linux, all enclosed in a George Foreman grill. Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.
And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill."
The Bundt Pan Man, Letting Them Eat Cake
A nice obiturary for the man who invented the Bundt pan and the rotating microwave plate.
Check it out:
The Bundt Pan Man, Letting Them Eat Cake (washingtonpost.com): "Should we take a moment to say goodbye to the man who invented the Bundt pan? We should, especially considering that he also gave the world the microwave carousel platter.
His name was H. David Dalquist, and he died last week of heart failure at age 86 in Edina, Minn."
Open source reshaping services market | CNET News.com
Check out this CNET news story on Open Source:
Open source reshaping services market | CNET News.com: "The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
With the number of open-source products on the rise, there has been a surge in services offerings--such as consulting and support--designed specifically for open-source software like Linux, the Apache Web server and MySQL database."
Usenet timeline
Read in awe! As a young computer scientist (26) my career will mark the full second half of computer science as a discipline. Read the first messages online about various technologies/events/companies that are driving the feild today.
Well worth it, check out Google's Usenet timeline:
20 Year Archive on Google Groups: "Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account."
The New York Times > Technology > New Economy: Observers Wonder If Apple Plans Low-Cost Macintosh
I may have blogged this article earlier, but this is different. How? The New York Times has this as its lead story for the technology section on thier homepage.
Very cool check it out:
The New York Times > Technology > New Economy: Observers Wonder If Apple Plans Low-Cost Macintosh: "IN what might be the next episode in Silicon Valley's longest-running soap opera, Apple Computer's chairman, Steven P. Jobs, is planning to surrender to the computer industry's received wisdom and introduce a sub-$500 Macintosh, according to several published reports."
Automakers Put Hydrogen Power On the Fast Track
Check out this post article on the emerging use of hydrogen cars.
Automakers Put Hydrogen Power On the Fast Track (washingtonpost.com): "The brakes are controlled by a computer, so the car can stop a full length shorter than most. Each rear wheel has its own motor and can turn by itself, which not only improves traction but also makes parallel parking a snap. And the only thing this car emits is water vapor."
Open source and communism
Read the now infamous conversation where some people believe that Bill Gates is relating copylefters and communists. I'm not so sure Bill is drawing that line, but I'll have to re-read to make sure. I'll say that the true sign that Open Source has won is when Microsoft releases its own version of Linux.
Gates taking a seat in your den | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Photos: CES gadget glitz - page 5 | CNET News.com
Another CES gadget. Kodak's big screen easy share swivel-cam. Very cool, check it out.
Photos: CES gadget glitz - page 5 | CNET News.com: "Kodak's new EasyShare-One digital camera, on display at CES, is designed as much for swapping pictures as for snapping them"
CES gadgets - Xzibit shows off PSP.
Wow, Hip-hop is the current marketing tool of any thing "cool". From the Sidekick ads featuring, Snoop, Big-Boi, Wayne Newton, et al to Xzibit as a presentation partner with Sony at CES. It is a truely amazing transformation in the last 50 years in America.
Photos: CES gadget glitz - page 3 | CNET News.com: "Sony's Kaz Hirai and rapper Xzibit demonstrate the PlayStation Portable's music capabilites at a CES press conference Wednesday."
Reservists May Face Longer Tours of Duty (washingtonpost.com)
I think we need a permanant solution to enable us to protect the US, have reservists return to a normal life, and secure our international commitments. Now lets see if Bush uses his "politicial capitol" for a worthy purpose.
read the story for yourself:
Reservists May Face Longer Tours of Duty (washingtonpost.com): "the Army probably will ask Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the next several months to change the policy on mobilization of reservists."
CNN to Cancel 'Crossfire' and Cut Ties to Commentator
Here is a snip of the story the New York Times is doing on CNN's move to cancel Crossfire and get rid of Tucker Carlson.
The biggest news is the reference to Jon Stewart's appreance on Crossfire by CNN president Jonathon Klien. Apparently Mr. Stewart hit too close to home, when he said that Crossfire was "hurting America".
Read the story for your self:
NYT > CNN Will Cancel 'Crossfire' and Cut Ties to Commentator: "'CNN is a different animal,' Mr. Klein said. 'We report the news. Fox talks about the news. They're very good at what they do and we're very good at what we do.'
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at 'Crossfire' when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were 'hurting America.'"
Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation
Wow, I am hearing way too much about Open Source, Free Software, and Linux talk. Maybe it becuase I'm a nerd and I've been a Linux user since 1998.
Nerds ready to declare 2005 (some even 2004) the year Linux has crossed the chasam to main stream users.
well see, but check out the store for yourself:
Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation: "Sometimes people don't know when a revolution has happened until afterwards. Then, the historians tell us that 2004 was the year that open source started to become computing's mainstream.
Sounds hard to believe? Well, IDC analyst Al Gillen recently said that 'Linux is no longer a fringe player. Linux is now mainstream.' He made that observation because IDC's research predicts that Linux's overall revenue for desktops, servers and packaged software running on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008."
Congress gets to work, right, work.
109th Congress Convenes (washingtonpost.com): "After the swearing-in of new and returning lawmakers who won their contests in the Nov. 2 elections, the House promptly took up rules changes proposed by the majority Republicans."
the_letter_zi: Negative Post
Here is a wonderful post from a fellow UMM-er. This was post from Oct 30th one week before the election. It is the best summary of the general sentiment in America at the time.
the_letter_zi: Negative Post: "Negative Post
I hate X, why does X exsit!? I think everyone should get their heads out of their asses and realize my point of view is far superior to theirs. If everyone thought what I thought, X would no longer be a problem. I can't believe how retarded some people are. No, it's always I love X, and X is the greatest. FUCK, WHAT FUCKING MORONS. Can't they make up their own minds about something, can't they see that X is obvioulsy just plain wrong!"
