Jan 25 2012
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Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite)
this is absolutely breathtaking.
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John Tyler’s Grandsons Are Still Alive!
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler in 1928.
[Source: Genealogy of John Tyler]
Jan 24 2012
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Jan 18 2012
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PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bills
The widespread Internet blackout Wednesday, in which sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit went dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), seems to have influenced members of the U.S. Congress. PIPA co-sponsor Florida Sen. Marco Rubio pulled hi…
Jan 13 2012
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Jan 09 2012
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Research notes: A word of advice for Code Year participants
A whole herd of people are learning to program this year through free weekly lessons via email from Code Year. Some, like me, are interested in new lessons and approaches. Some people are starting from scratch. I have a word of advice to you, one I need to follow myself, as you get started on…
Jan 05 2012
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“ As for Romney’s suggestion that the service run ads, Kerger points out that PBS couldn’t do that even if it wanted to — it would violate FCC regulations. But even more, she says, changing PBS to an ad-supported network would inevitably change what it airs because the network would be forced to show programs that attract advertiser-friendly crowds. PBS, for example, continues to air ballet and modern dance, even though their ratings droop, because the service believes its important to present those arts to the viewing public. No ad-supported cable network would make a similar choice. ” There are a number of channels in the cable world that started out with really great ideas that they would be the commercial version of public television, and they went down very different paths.” For an example, she says, take History. “Programming like Pawn Stars and American Pickers is not the same as American Experience and Ken Burns … I’m not in the same business as anyone else who will stand on this stage.
Jan 04 2012
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“ Second — and this is the point almost nobody seems to get — an over-borrowed family owes money to someone else; U.S. debt is, to a large extent, money we owe to ourselves.
Dec 30 2011
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The origin of "kick the can" | Marketplace from American Public Media
“kick the can” has been used as a coded slur by the house republicans against the senate for not passing their version of the payroll tax bill — leaving out that the reason that the senate doesn’t want to pass the house version is because the house version has been filled up with lots of other undesirable — and even totally unrelated — things. things that make earmarks look trivial. since everyone is so amendment happy suddenly, how about an amendment that legislation has to focus on only one issue at a time?
