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Two Tiered Pricing
So I knew that MIT had the whole open courseware thing, but I just found out about this cool video repository. Now actually attending the school is still something like 15,000 bucks a semester. But at least they are doing a good job of make this experience available to the rest of us. Bravo!
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Thanks for Nothing.
From the NY Times: Nuclear Expert Receives Pardon From Musharraf “RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb. 5 — Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, granted a full pardon on Thursday to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, a day after Dr. Khan appeared on television and confessed to sharing nuclear technology with Iran, North Korea…
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Media Buyass
Why do both sides of the political spectrum think the media is biased? Maybe its because Evil Right Wing FatCats are manipulating the minds of the populace to force us to vote for Bush again. Or maybe a bunch of leftist commie gay hollywood types are trying to spread lies about our govt, defeat bush…
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Cheaper Pixels
So being almost 40 it was time to add glasses to the list of things I need to keep track of. As an upside, the resolution on all my computer monitors doubled for free.
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Walmart’s Window on the World Economy
$12.84 Price of a Portable CD Player at WalMart $13.80 Price of a Britney Spears CD at WalMart Is this a statement about: How Walmart exploits child labor overseas? Or How the RIAA exploits children in the US? Niether. Its just a reality of the current world economy. The real question is who will be…
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?”