today I learned: "For instance, a 2007 study found that, in the European Union, air pollution from coal power plants killed almost 25 people per terawatt-hour of electricity produced. Currently, the EU gets around 1000 terawatt-hours of electricity from coal every year. Let that sink in."
Wonderful internet weirdness. I think the whole think is a setup for Horse_ecomics (which are pretty damn funny). Step One: write Markov-chain generator, posting plausible nonsense to twitter account. Two: Riff on it with a clever web comic. Three: ... . Four: Profit.
Incredible. "MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects."
Thanks dchud. Once you start using a REAL editor, I believe you'll find the highlight-search-toggle feature under "M-x lispnik-transmogrify-search-highlights", or under its keyboard shortcut, "C-c C-x C-j # t l X".
"Data caps, therefore, are a very crude and unfair tool when it comes to targeting potentially disruptive users. The correlation between real-time bandwidth usage and data downloaded over time is weak and the net cast by data caps captures users that cannot possibly be responsible for congestion."
"It's been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the extraordinary step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community."