{"id":3283,"date":"2009-01-05T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/05\/links-for-20090105\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:00:28","slug":"links-for-20090105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/05\/links-for-20090105\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-01-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahweinman.com\/confessions\/2009\/01\/donald-westlake-rip.html\">Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Donald Westlake, R.I.P.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">With links galore.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/mystery\">mystery<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandcake.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/04\/a-question-of-mass\/\">A question of mass? \u00c2\u00ab Physics and cake<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The Penrose interpretation of quantum mechanics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;states that the mass of a system affects the system&#8217;s ability to maintain quantum coherence. This is the basis for some theories of quantum gravity. Above the Planck mass, which is ~1E-8kg, a system can no longer maintain coherence for any measureable time, due to the onset of gravitational interactions.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/mass\">mass<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2009\/01\/04\/a-little-rant-about-that-2012-nonsense\/\">A little rant about that 2012 nonsense&#8230; \u00c2\u00ab Skulls in the Stars<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;It shouldn&#8217;t take much effort to realize how absurd it is to believe in prophecy, let alone prophecy made by a civilization that couldn&#8217;t foresee its own collapse.  Nevertheless, the idea has gotten a lot of traction and will even be the focus of a disaster movie due out this year, &#8216;directed&#8217; by Roland Emmerich.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/01\/04\/blogs-that-should-exist\/\">Blogs That Should Exist | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Of course we came up with more than one [potential blog name], before settling on our perfect choice. But what was imperfect for us might fit you just fine. So, offered up free of charge, here are some of the names we were bandying around, plus some extras I came up with since.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2207756\/pagenum\/2\">A preview of Microsoft Windows 7. &#8211; By Farhad Manjoo &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;In Windows 7 the transformation is complete: The Windows taskbar now operates pretty much exactly like the Mac OS&#8217; dock. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to find out how Mike Kozlowski will spin this as a brilliant move.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/microsoft\">microsoft<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\/archives\/1617\">ASCII by Jason Scott \/ Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;A terrible thing happened recently. You might have missed it.<br \/>\nAOL Hometown, which itself was actually a combination of a bunch of previously acquired websites, shut down. It shut down on October 31 of this year.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/ind\/imperial-history.html\">Imperial History of the Middle East<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans&#8230;the list goes on.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2207757\/?from=rss\">How do you get to be in the &quot;international consortium of timekeepers&quot;? &#8211; By Brian Palmer &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Earn a Ph.D. in astronomy and move to France. Tweaks to the official clock are announced by the Earth Orientation Center, a Paris-based subunit of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/time\">time<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Donald Westlake, R.I.P. With links galore. (tags: books writing mystery) A question of mass? \u00c2\u00ab Physics and cake &quot;The Penrose interpretation of quantum mechanics&#8230; &#8230;states that the mass of a system affects the system&#8217;s ability to maintain quantum coherence. This is the basis for some theories of quantum gravity. 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