Author: Dave

Space.com has an interesting report on the variability of the solar constant (them scientists are really good with the non-sequiturs). In what could be the simplest explanation for one component of global warming, a new study shows the Sun’s radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s. The increase would only…

Terrible pun. About what you ask? Al Gore and the Climate Menace. It is my way of saying – Al is not too smart, but saying it in a way that segues into the topic at hand. Which is: what is the maximum possible temperature of the earth and are we near it? Which is…

It seems that the City of Berkeley in California is all up in arms about the video to the left. What is so hateful about the video? Easy. It seems to tell the truth about some believers in Islam. A British stand-up has been accused of spreading ‘racist hate speech’ in California. Pat Condell has…

Glenn Reynolds seems to like to do tabloid bits (who doesn’t?) and today he is featuring the CHANNON CHRISTIAN / CHRISTOPHER NEWSOME KILLING, a particularly gruesome job, with black criminals and white victims. BTW note how important it must be to be ALL CAPS. Well at least he didn’t go the extra step and BOLD…

I have been doing some electronic design work over the last few days in support of amateur fusion efforts. My focus was on how to make low cost High Voltage power supplies. While I was doing that I came across the really neat picture you see here. More pictures of a similar sort can be…

Fred Thompson is growing on me. Any politician fearless enough to show up for a video chomping a cigar is ceratinly worth a second look.

It looks like the biofuels guys have plans for our future. Biofuels are supposed to be he great panacea for the burning problem of the day – man made global warming. Hey not so fast. It turns out biofuels could cause food shortages. Climate Feedback tells us of the new threat. Warnings that switching to…

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) statement of purpose? Is the organization supposed to find the cause of global climate change and report on what can be done? Why no. The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information…

Here is some incidental music to keep you entertained while you read the following: The Kyoto Protocols are playing havoc with the European economy. Carbon trading is the EU’s principal strategy for meeting its Kyoto target of reducing CO2 emissions by 8% by 2012. The scheme was launched two years ago in the hope that…

Here is an interesting piece at the Huffington Post by my friend Ali Eteraz explaining that Chompsky is not expressing sufficient dissent and then going through a catalog of Muslim ills. I just read that in Kurdistan a Yezidi girl was stoned to death with bricks to her head because she loved a Sunni boy;…

Reliapundit left a comment at my blog about this story which I think covers my theory of why we are seeing a big push for global warming taxes. [Emphasis added] the political schmucks running agw crowd are NOT dumb. they KNOW we are near the end of this warming cycle, and that’s EXACTLY why they…

There is a petition started on 20 Nov 2006 calling for Congress to support the Bussard Fusion Reactor. The short version: Dr. Bussard has a Navy contract that is unfunded. Also please write your Government to urge them to fund the Navy contract: House of Representatives The Senate The President Dr Bussard was on The…

Isn’t it ironic to see that the Democrats are against democracy in Iraq? I have provided some ironic music to properly set the mood. For those Democrats and others who don’t wish to be so ironic there is the I Support Democracy In Iraq support group. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

Winds of Change is discussing a post by Ali Eteraz. His thesis is that we need to give up partisanship. That no political philosophy is better than another. Split the differences. Ali says: I cannot in clean conscience engage against religious supremacism and exclusion if I engage in ideological supremacism and exclusion. Sure you can.…

A tenured Professor is being fired for quoting George Washington. A tenured college professor is set to be fired for simply sending out an e-mail to colleagues containing George Washington’s “Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789.” Already professor Walter Kehowski at Glendale Community College in Arizona has been placed on forced administrative leave and the school’s…

The fire storm that erupted over the Army’s rules about e-mails and blogging has lead to new rules. …the Army has issued a clarification that assures: In no way will every blog post/update a Soldier makes on his or her blog need to be monitored or first approved by an immediate supervisor and Operations Security…

This is a simulation of the magnetic field in the WB-6 Bussard Fusion Reactor. A picture of the WB-6 can be found here. It was done by Indrek. He posted it to the IEC Fusion Newsgroup. His simulation is logarithmic with 32 steps. Each step is 1.433 times the size of the previous step. It…

KC Johnson at Durham in Wonderland is discussing hate mail. Specifically hate mail recieved by some of the professors involved in the Duke Hoax. The latest example of creatively interpreting what constitutes “harassing” e-mails comes from the newly elected chairwoman of the Academic Council, Paula (“No to Due Process”) McClain. A Free Republic reader sent…

Wonderful discussion going on at Dr. Sanity’s about shame cultures, why they tend to despotism, and why their war on the West could lead to unfortunate consequences. Especially for them. The Dr. not being an avid historian gives Dresden as an example of what Americans are capable of. Commenter Simon-Peter sets her straight and proves…

Is 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 f3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 99 bf an illegal hex number? Nope. I made a transcription error. So what is all the excitement? Inquiring minds want to know. THE MPAA is having a go at erasing the fairly public HD-DVD processing key number from the…