Monthly Archives: July, 2009
Mir Diamond Mine
A Russian kimberlite pipe, mined for diamond. 1720 feet deep and 3900 feet across. Closed April 30, 2004. Filling with some real toxic water, similar to the mine in Butte, Montana. Interesting to look at on Google Earth too.
Max Keiser: Goldman Sax are Scum
This is just brilliant:
“They are literally stealing a hundred million dollars a day. Goldman Sachs is stealing every day on the floor of the exchange. They should be in the Hague, they should be taken on financial terrorism charges. They should all be thrown in jail”
– Max Keiser: “Goldman Sachs Are Scum” | zero hedge.
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America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
Text of H.R.3200 as Introduced in House:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken pictures of the Apollo landing sites!
This should shut ‘em up.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
Yeah, I know, NASA faked these too.
My dad, who worked on the Apollo program in 1969, would get a laugh out of this.
Medical Insurance for Prepared American Families
Some sound advice on medical insurance, July 2009:
http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/07/medical_insurance_for_prepared.html
From the post:
“…strategy is to ask for a discount in exchange for immediate payment by cash or by credit card. Providers want to collect payments and close out accounts as fast as possible so many will make a deal for quick payment. If you owe the hospital $7,000 [...]
SgtMarty wandering around Earth
Here’s a well written and photographed trip report of a solo KLR650 motorcycle trip from Colorado to Prudho Bay.
http://www.klr650.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45922
I could not stop reading this one. What a great adventure. The photos bring backs lots of memories. Perhaps it is time to get back to Alaska?
Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
From Philip Greenspuns weblog. My own experience is much the same with Zope and Plone.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-and-the-importance-of-being-stupid/
Social Networking: Coping with Digital Time Sinks
Social networking takes up considerable time and energy, and is addictive as hell. A good argument for social networking as obsessive-compulsive disorder is at Urban Survival, a blog that I enjoy greatly:
http://www.urbansurvival.com/blog/?p=1199
Skip down to the section labled: Social Networking
Also Google: communication obsession disorder
The author points out an intersting parallel between 2009 social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, [...]
It’s time to stand up for homemade potato salad
Garrison Keillor writes:
“Come on, people, it’s not that hard to make. Do you really think we can’t tell the difference?”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/07/01/potato_salad/index.html
“When the family meets this weekend to hobnob and burn burgers, the family member assigned to bring the potato salad is likely going to walk in with a couple of gallon plastic buckets of yellowish muck [...]