Sapere Aude
Month: June 2007
As a former marine, he was reasonably prepared to “embrace the suck” on this one, assuming that the military would be too busy to guard important sites, his first recommendation. But he did hold out hope for at least a little “cultural awareness training.”
The military has decided to grant his wish by passing out 40K decks of cards to educate troops about archaeology in Iraq. “This site has survived 17 centuries. Will it survive you?”
preserving our history as it were
williamsburg belgian beer place
wow. so pretty
very similar shells, with the same type of adornment have been found in south africa and morocco. what this article calls “symbolic uses” may well have been a currency.
In the last 24 hours, Google produced 8555 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun.
proof!
I noticed people looking for visits from iPhones in their web-server logfiles. I looked in mine, and found a couple. I thought I’d reproduce the actual Apache logfile entry, which is kind of interesting; do your own interpretation. a17-202-23-209.apple.com – – [31/May/2007:10:39:58 -0700] “GET /ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/21/Emoji.png HTTP/1.1” 200 2374 “http://greg.abstrakt.ch/tag/mobile” “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3”
Aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid applications. As a “hybrid” philanthropic venture itself, Google.org can apply a broad mix of resources to addressing the climate crisis.
In my post-MBA job hunt, Microsoft was not the most obvious fit—I’m not a very technical guy. On my first day at Microsoft it took me 30 minutes just to find the latch to open my laptop
wow. with hires like that, no wonder they are failing.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 