Monday, August 17, 2009

Stuff below the fold

Are LED's the lightbulbs of the future?
and what is their place in wireless communications?

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MaryBeard at A Don's Life visits a Coptic monastery...
one bit of World War II trivia in the essay:
As we drove on to Alexandria, I was reading the guide book. It explained that the battlefield of El Alamein was still littered with 17.2 million unexploded landmines that the British, Germans and Italians had refused to pay to have cleared -- ostensibly because Egypt has not signed up to the Ottawa treaty.

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Blackfive notes that it is National Navajo code talkers day

another bit of trivia: not all code talkers were Navajo...
Other Native American code talkers were used by the United States Army during World War II, using Cherokee, Choctaw and Comanche soldiers. Soldiers of Basque ancestry were used for code talking by the US Marines during World War II in areas where other Basque speakers were not expected to be operating.

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Whither the Green Revolution in Iran?
no big demonstrations in cities, but spreading to small towns?

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The headline is misleading: Mutant polio virus spreads in Nigeria.

Actually, the vaccine doesn't harm the kid who gets it....What happens is that the weakened virus mutates back to it's old nasty self inside the kid vaccinated, and those in contact with the kid can "catch" polio from him...it's a known problem, which is why the US switched back to the shots for polio.
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a few days ago, I posted about a poem that Ninoy wrote for Cory...
Well, here it is sung for you.

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