So it turns out there actually is a history of metric time in the world. During the French revolution a metric time system was implemented from 1792-1805. They based it on a day which had 10 hours, each of 100 minutes, each of 100 seconds. They also had 10 day weeks, with months three weeks long. According to accounts it was very popular, but ( Read more... )

Since 2003, the year the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, pirate attacks have been on the rise world wide. Particularly devastating is the activity off the coast of Somalia, which is cutting off the flow of humanitarian aid to the region.I think it is time to tell Hollywood to acknowledge their own influence, and stop making films ( Read more... )

In May 2003 The Iranian government sent a letter to the U.S. outlining a proposal for a comprehensive settlement. The administration ignored the proposal largely on moral grounds, and those concerning the war on terror. Below is the portion of the proposal dealing with demands and concessions. It is important to note that this is Iran's starting ( Read more... )

These days, when someone says "I'm a democrat," what I hear is "I do not think I can take care of myself ( Read more... )

The following is a speech drafted in 1969 to be delivered in the event that Apollo 11 ended in the deaths of those who left the lander, along with some instructions for how to handle the situation. Considering the danger, it wasa wise precaution, but I still found it interesting.

July 18, 1969 ( Read more... )

I went to The Valley of Elah today with My boss, her husband, and his sister. I left the theater thinking it was mostly ok, except the end was poorly orchestrated, and too cliché. I've since done some reading on the source material that dampens my opinion. The movie is based on the story of Richard Davis, a man who was murdered by members of his ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago I discovered Pandora radio. It's a website linked to the Music Genome Project. This is what Tim Westergren, the founder, has to say about the project

...We set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music ( Read more... )

( Most will find this uninteresting )

There has been so much to write, and I have been lax. Catch up post so next time I write I can do one of the cool things I want to write about ( Read more... )

Since graduating from college I have been in a constant state of dehydration. This is something that hasn't been true since elementary school. One theory is that I drink a lot more beer. That's true, but I also drink a lot more water, and a lot less pop. Those probably don't quite balance, but the dehydration continues even when I go weeks or a ( Read more... )