links for 2008-04-09

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  1. Meritocracy – skimming the top 10% from the bottom 10% in education, productivity, and government.

    Social conscience – Those who are proven unfit to work are warehoused as management.

    Self-esteem – delusion actively seeking repudiation.
    Social advocate – bunko artiste.
    Social justice – the race for academic nullity.
    Social engineering – assassination of the future.
    Social equity – snit plus hyphenation equals qualification.
    Social harmony – suppressed rancor.
    Socialism – money is the opposite of wealth.
    Social mobilization – riot.
    Social progress – institutionalized charity.

  2. Those folks at Texas must not have read the press release from the University of Michigan back in February.

    Michigan claims 300 PW for 30 fs (9 J per pulse).

    Texas claims 1 PW for 0.1 ps (0.1 J per pulse).

    That’s not even close, so they might be feeling really dumb once the PR people at Michigan see that claim in print. Of course, my assumption that PR people read as much as they write could be poor assumption.

    By the way, Chad, they have a picture with that press release that belongs in your Lab Porn collection. Check out
    http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6346

  3. Ooops. My bad. Michigan is only 300 TW. Should read rather than go from memory. The total energy is also wrong due to that mistake: Texas is 100 J per pulse compared to 9 in the Michigan beam.

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