links for 2008-02-20

February 20th, 2008 2:26:25 am pst by Sterling Camden

• B.C. inventor wants to put pop bottle rocket into orbit
  “It always takes me 10 times longer than I thought,” he admits. “On the last world record I figured it would take a month, and it was about two years.” Maybe it would be easier if he stopped calculating in base 24.
  (tags: science rocket space humor records)
• Opinion: Child abuse by the government | nate, parents, home, government, court – OCRegister.com
  “Liberty and justice for all” is sounding even more like thoughtcrime.
  (tags: liberty autism cps government)
• Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head
  More disturbing news from the land of the free
  (tags: psychology security technology torture pentagon laser)
• DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Mike Stonebraker calls for the complete destruction of the old DBMS order
  Scrap SQL. Heck, scrap disk storage altogether. And here I thought the H-Store was just a guy on a street corner.
  (tags: database memory persistence sql sqlserver oracle oltp dbms ruby)
• limpfish.com – pics – Homer Simpson
  In the style of Rembrandt. Thanks, Jason.
  (tags: art simpsons rembrandt humor weird)
• Meme Agora: Rental Car IT
  Great post, but self-inflicted complexity may not always be accidental. Sometimes it’s political.
  (tags: software innovation simplicity it complexity enterprise)
• Simple tricks for doing arithmetic in your head
  Have at it, Stu!
  (tags: arithmetic tips hacks)

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4 Responses to “links for 2008-02-20”

1. Ole Phat Stu says:

   February 20, 2008 at 8:18 pm

   “Simple tricks for doing arithmetic in your head”.

   Trivial!
   BTW: The rules for testing for divisibility by all numbers up to 50 are on my site at http://www.savory.de/maths1.htm

   And yes, I DO know how to take cube roots in my head. Beat that!
   (FWIW I’ll do a blog article explaining how to take cube roots in your head at the end of the month,OK?)

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     February 20, 2008 at 8:27 pm

     Sounds great, Stu! Can’t wait.

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2. apotheon says:

   February 21, 2008 at 11:52 am

   re: autism

   Have you seen these?

   Autism Breakthrough: Girl’s Writings Explain Her Behavior and Feelings

   Carly’s Writings — Carly being the girl from the last link

   Judging by her writings, it almost sounds like some of her symptoms are just a really severe case of “Restless Leg Syndrome”, except not just in her legs.

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     February 21, 2008 at 1:24 pm

     Yes, I did see those. It’s truly amazing to get a glimpse inside the mind of someone with autism, because many cannot communicate effectively at all.

     I’ve never heard autism compared to RLS before, but I wonder if there could be a connection, The more I learn, the more I believe autism to be closely tied to allergies, asthma, and other disorders. I believe that the sharp increase in recent years means that it can’t be merely a genetic disorder, but must also be triggered by some environmental insult (using environment in the broadest possible sense of “anything that happens after conception”).

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