Constitution of the Confederate States of America- what was changed?
We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.
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Fish oil ‘calms children better than Ritalin’ | the Daily Mail
Maybe the old remedy of cod liver oil had less to do with what ailed the kid but keeping the parents sane.
A daily dose of fish oil is better at treating hyperactivity than Ritalin - the ‘chemical cosh’ linked to the deaths of children, stunning research has revealed.
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Polymathematics: No, I’m Sorry, It Does.
.9 repeating equals one. In other words, .9999999… is the same number as 1. They’re 2 different ways of writing the same number. Kind of like 1.5, 1 1/2, 3/2, and 99/66. All the same. I know some of you still don’t believe me, so let me say it loudly:
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HOW TO: Get Billions of Pages Indexed in Google - Merged.ca
Interesting. Now I just need to find a way to duplicate this guys efforts. Even if one page in a million gets an ad click each day then he’s getting 3800 ad clicks per day. Best guess is that’s somewhere around $500 per day.
[update] Search google for site:eiqz2q.org now yields 0 results so he was purged from the index.
Check out this site: search of eiqz2q.org — depending which datacentre you hit, you will see between 3.8 and 5.5 BILLION RESULTS. Even worse… the domain is EIGHTEEN DAYS OLD. That’s right, in under 3 weeks, one person has managed to get one domain 5 billion pages indexed in Google.
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USATODAY.com - A life without left turns
A touching article about a guy’s memories of his father.
I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.
“In those days,” he told me when he was in his 90s, “to drive a car you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look every which way, and I decided you could walk through life and enjoy it or drive through life and miss it.”
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The Fine Manual
Very good article that makes a lot of good points. This boils down to something my grandmother used to harp on: “If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.”
In other words, if you can’t help the person, then just be quiet. If you really care about free software, let’s keep the rude and condescending comments to ourselves and provide some thoughtful and useful help.
I wish the RTFM jerk crowd would just stick to hard distributions and operating systems like BSD, Gentoo and Slackware, and not waste time with abusing newbies trying to get things like Fedora and Ubuntu to work.
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African-American Voters Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List Greg Palast
Yet another story breaks about the dishonesty of the current administration.
A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.
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Forest Products Laboratory — Forest Service — USDA
Wood Handbook
Wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report 113.
Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 463 p.
I just ran across this book in PDF form from the Forest Service. I used some of the data in here when we built a timber-frame house. The properties of the wood and a few general engineering equations are about all you need to determine the safe load of wooden beams and posts.
In case you you would rather have a dead tree version, here’s the Wood Handbook on Amazon.
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The Traveling Tiger: Beached SUV limo
ROFL
Mike and I were having dinner at Goat Hill Pizza when a giant SUV limo appeared out of nowhere and promptly grounded out on the hill. I couldn’t resist taking photos…
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