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Canada's Financial Post has an excellent article with links to 27 (yes, twenty-seven) other articles on the same subject. This artcle zeros in on mud-core samples off the lower mainland of British Columbia, and with that evidence in hand, then correlates known solar variance with their findings. It goes on to recap the theory that low solar output allows more cosmic rays more cosmic rays become cloud-chamber-like nuclei for cloud formation the kinds of clouds formed reflect heat and the earth cools. So, even though the amount of energy sent our way from the Sun decreases a little, there's a greater influence on Earth's climate as a result of that solar variance. The author finds his skepticism to the very political science trumpeted by Algore and the Kyoto gang is not alone in the scientific community: In a 2003 poll conducted by German environmental researchers Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, two-thirds of more than 530 climate scientists from 27 countries surveyed did

TechRepublic 's adopted me as a digi-pundit, complete with ugly masthead pic. ROFL away. OMG IF U CN RD THS U R BSTD Milan make me buy more, me like Microsoft’s Milan? Does Palm see the Vision Thing? Let’s see with the Foleo. $100 laptop debuts in Uruguay. Can you hear me now (from 5.5 miles high)? AdSense ad-heavy sites swept away in Google late spring cleaning. Anti-spyware bill sent to Senate, passes House. Diamonds: Girl’s best friend / Evidence of global cooling? Information wants to be free, including air ticket prices. Motorola mobiles send Linux handsets stateside Quicker Quicken profits. Another strike against DRM: Amazon weighs in for better digital downloads.

For the cost of the long distance call (a portion of which, by agreement, custom and law goes to the terminating phone company), this itty bitty Iowa telco gives you free conference calling . Calls can be arranged either ad hoc , or pre-booked over the web , at no charge to you. This turns cellular companies and long distance carriers, upset at losing their slide of a very lucrative market (profit margins of 29,000% are not unheard of among phone comanies for specific services) into psychopathically rapid wolverines, and the attack lawyers are circling, only their fins showing above water . Of course, you know what to do if you calls are blocked; change long distance companies. This website gives you the information you need to make an informed choice about long distance resellers .

The virtual economy is growing apace. Now, there's a VISA card for World of Warcraft : Priceless.

Here the Register interviews two smart lads who are ready to take over every Windows Vista machine their software touches . Hmm.

Bake coal w/ waste heat from a nuke plant, get Carbon Monoxide AKA ' coal gas '. Sequester the radon, other radioactive nasties and heavy metals found in coal (which is why people die of cancer downwind of coal plants, and why coal kills many times more folks than nuclear power). Add more Hydrogen, electrolized from water with nuclear power (the oxygen gets liquidized, and goes to hospitals or industrial processes). Voila! Low sulfur diesel fuel, and jet fuel , using a plant designed by a Vancouver WA company . Can you say, "Energy Independence?" With a two hundred year worldwide coal reserve , we have some time to think about the next step in energy , which is what Japan is now planning to test .

It's over at Operation Dice Drop now.

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Operation Dice Drop was just Slashdotted .

Z iggurat Con, where R.P.G. isn't just a Rocket Propelled Grenade , needs your help. UPDATED 4/21 & 4/22: A message from SPC Amberson, ZC's chair, suggests a deadline for shipment to Ziggurat Con by Military Mail (and the general restrictions on what can be sent ): Saturday 26 May for Express Mail Monday 21 May for Priority Mail - (much cheaper than Express Mail) 9 May for Media Mail - Parcel Post takes about 2 months, so if you ship via Parcel Post, there's little-to-no chance of arrival before the con. Here's a postal rate calculator ; use 09331 as the destination zip code. He added: We have been so long without books, dice and such that whatever you can send will be appreciated. I think it would be best to let you know what games are actually scheduled for the event. This way you can decide for yourself what you wish to send. The best way is to send by US Postal Service (we don't get any other deliveries here). Sunday - 1200-1600 1. GURPS 2. Shadowrun 3.

Philo T. Farnsworth , the inventor of practical television, whose genius you've relied on to watch mind-numbing network TV, was a polymath and inventor of many other things; one was inertial electrostatic confinement , which he turned into an early (i.e., not generating more power than it takes to run) nuclear fusion reactor. Starting in the middle of Tuesday's Mail, the esteemed First Blogger has started discussing Dr. Bussard's refinements of the Farnsworth Fusor . Sadly, after Bussard blew up his lab (always a sign in physics you've done something interesting ), he asked to rebuild, but DOD won't renew funding . Here's the Executive Summary with links to more details, i.e., a NYT story (2MB PDF) discussing Bussand and others , a small (1.5MB PDF) paper, Should Google Go Nuclear? , a lengthy paper (4.6MB) presented at last year's International Astronautical Congress , a streaming video of a presentation at Google HQ , and a few pix of apparatus along

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C|Net reports : The official search for James Kim and his family in the Oregon backwoods was plagued by squabbling among police agencies, confusion, indifference and mistakes, a government report released Thursday says. The OSSA entire report is worth reading , as is this letter to the editor ( 'If it matters to Oregonians, it's in the Washington Post' ) from Kim's father about media interference in the search. Ask your state representatives what they will do to make sure existing, adequate and competent basics are followed when this happens again.

Greg Schultz , a Kentuckyian and techie, found this bon mot : Windows XP Home did indeed come with a backup utility...it just wasn't included in the default installation. However, it could be found on the Windows XP Home installation CD in the folder \VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP. Something every home user should do: BACK UP YOUR DATA.

The mind boggles. And there's at least one nude Wi-Fi beach: Florida's Haulover Beach . Shirley Mason, the executive director of the naturalist Beaches Foundation, says she sees people using their laptops all the time. Or, so sayeth WIRED .

A security breach in Google's Gmail and other services has been fixed. Deep cleansing sigh of relief , as Gmail is my brain nowadays. Why? It's nifty; here's a ten-point explanation why .