Articles

It's time for yet another link dump!!

• If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them? (obviously I disagree with the position, but it's insightful to see the opposition's logic)
• The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why.
• Ages of Revolution: How Old Were They on July 4, 1776?
• The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google
• How To Turn One Garlic Bulb Into Lots Of Garlic Bulbs
• Make Ahead Complete Freezer Meals On The Cheap
• Buzz Aldrin @ Reddit
• American Meteorological Society Member Survey on Global Warming (the climate change bozos really hate this)
• Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
• NWSOFA Climate Change Team – Thorium, Molten Salt Reactors, and Green Energy
• Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead
• The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni
• Ham Radio: An "Old" Technology is a Lifesaver in the Emergency Field
• Root Cellar

ClimateGate

Prof. Hal Lewis' resignation letter from the American Physical Society is a scathing indictment if I've heard one:

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist. [emphasis added]

Yeah.