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Saturday, September 04, 2004 |
More Stewart-Koppel nuggets
Via Lost Remote comes this transcription of the Ted Koppel/John Stewart interview the other night.
I don't watch news on TV much, accept for Stewart, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but the fake newscaster, comedian John Stewart, displays more of a concern for and understanding of true journalistic ethics than Koppel can drum up. It's amazing, saddening stuff.
2:20:38 PM Permalink
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Simulating the Whole Universe
An international group of cosmologists, the Virgo Consortium, has realized the first simulation of the entire universe, starting 380,000 years after the Big Bang and going up to now. In "Computing the Cosmos,"IEEE Spectrum writes that the scientists used a 4.2 teraflops system at the Max Planck Society's Computing Center in Garching, Germany, to do the computations. The whole universe was simulated by ten billion particles, each having a mass a billion times that of our sun. As it was necessary to compute the gravitational interactions between each of the ten billion mass points and all the others, a task that needed 60,000 years, the computer scientists devised a couple of tricks to reduce the amount of computations. And in June 2004, the first simulation of our universe was completed. The resulting data, which represents about 20 terabytes, will be available to everyone in the months to come, at least to people with a high-bandwidth connection. Read more... [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
12:28:12 PM Permalink
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Whopper: Arnold Schwarzenegger
What were Soviet tanks doing in Austria's British-occupied sector? [Slate Magazine]
Nothing. They weren't there. Arnold conjured them out of whole cloth. This guy is supposed to be something like a breath of fresh air, a non-politician. But he's learned the lessons from the rest of his party. Lie and divide.
11:51:02 AM Permalink
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I Hid Out in The Guard
CALVIN TRILLIN THE VIETNAM CONFESSIONS OF GEORGE W. BUSH "I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well placed...managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units." &mdash Colin Powell on the Vietnam War, in My American Journey With tentacles like wealthy octopi, The well-connected didn't have to die. The unit's full? We knew just what to do: One made a call and simply jumped the queue Yes, keeping out of danger wasn't really hard. I used my daddy's clout to hide out in the Guard. Oppose the war? That seemed to me psychotic. We Bushes,... [onegoodmove]
11:42:36 AM Permalink
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Bush by numbers
The Independent: Bush by numbers $3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more INS special agents.
$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's existing terrorism budget.
$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash.
$5m Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalised gambling.
More fun facts in the article. [eric.weblogs.com]
8:38:04 AM Permalink
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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