links for 2008-02-17
By Bob Plankers on Feb 17, 2008 in del.icio.us
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“…the project involved over a thousand fluorescent bulbs planted underneath high voltage AC transmission lines. Unwired, the bulbs drew energy from the surrounding electromagnetic radiation and lit up, making for what must have been a marvelous sight.”
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“Facing exponential growth they spent about 3 months building a new log processing system using Hadoop (an open-source implementation of Google File System and MapReduce), Lucene and Solr.”
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“Does it promise to reduce stress, but end up causing more?”
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“Now replace every use of the word party with community, every use of the word guest with member, and host with community leader.”
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“Taimina intuited that the essence of this construction could be implemented with knitting or crochet simply by increasing the number of stitches in each row. As you increase, the surface naturally begins to ruffle and crenellate.” Crochet vs. physics!
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I wish people would stop electing these bozos. I’ll do my part to get rid of Herb Kohl next election. Also interesting to see that Hillary Clinton doesn’t want accountability like this (glad to see she’s losing to Obama now).
