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Interesting
A very good post on GeoThermal energy by Malcolm Gladwell. For a simple explanation as to what it is
Geothermal heating and cooling is based on one simple fact: that 6 feet down in the ground the temperature is the sameÂbetween 50˚F and 60˚F- the whole year round. This means that it is relatively cool in the summer, and relatively warm in the winter.
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For geothermal cooling, all one needs to do is to circulate water in a pipe through the ground to cool it, and use this cool water to cool the air pumped through the house in the heating ducts.Heating is done much the same way. The numbers seem quite plausible, I wonder why it’s not more popular.
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Funny police report
A tale of a daring milk robbery in Ohio.
Choice quote from the police report
“he realized this was no joke when the rotund robbers began pelting him with a flurry of chubby fists”
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The GPS
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Thoughts on today
Another terror plot is centered in London and Pakistan, as were the 7/7 plot.
I wonder if the prime focus of radical Islam is not the Arab word but Central Asia. Perhaps Arab culture, for good or ill, is too strongly ingrained to be replaced by a pure (messianic cult) version of Islam. The Central Asian states, might be more pliable due to 70 years of Soviet purges weakening the societies.
Just a thought.
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A circle of hell appears at Turner field
I came across this somehow
A Guinness World Record-Setting Event for Banjo Players!
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We plan to bring together the most number of banjo players assembled at one location to play the same song at the same time.
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All banjo players are welcome to attend. Only those who can demonstrate the ability to play the song Foggy Mountain Breakdown for 5 minutes will be counted toward the Guinness World Record. The tempo will be 120 beats per minute, and we’ll play in the key of G.
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We’ll stand together on the field in small teams, according to the type of instrument played and the style of play.That’s a whole lot of banjo. I have all the usual bluegrass prejudices against the banjo I suppose.
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Cynthia sings!
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It begins already
McKinney alleges voting irregularities
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Shortly after the polls opened on Tuesday, allegations of voting irregularities began appearing on U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s campaign Web site.
I had no wait when I voted this afternoon. There were McKinney people waving signs outside the polling place though. I waved, they waved back.
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Getting out the vote
I’m off to go vote in the McKinney – Johnson race. It’s an open primary, so anyone (who is registered) can vote.
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Quote of the moment
“You know the story. Most of my life in jail; the rest of it dead!”
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Monday rapid fire
- Prediction Markets
- Shutter Speed
- Carter: Bush Israel’s ‘worst ally’ in D.C. – this is American Politics at its most vapid. Two parties, or in this particular case, one party, arguing over who can better serve a foreign government? Is it so much to ask what we get out of it? Israel does have a knack for drawing the proper enemies, but this is a country that has spied on us and sank one of our warships, must we be this servile?
- Jack Handey’s Art Ideas
- The Pickin’ Barn
- Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq Had WMD – Journalism at it’s most vapid. It’s bad enough the author uses the horrid acronym “WMD” but then he contradicts himself in the article. Half of the US still believes that Iraq had WMD, chemical weapons in this case, because they did, just not in meaningful quantity. The poll gave an accurate answer, but the author uses that as a mini rant, and it’s billed as news, not commentary.