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A nice article about the impact Einstien had to kick off the Century of Physics (20th Century). It is hard to grasp for someone like myself, born in 1978, to understand how far the world physics has come since 1905.

Check it out, a interesting read:

Wired News: A Century of Einstein: “If you think it’s sometimes hard to understand how a teenager’s mind works, have some sympathy for Albert Einstein’s mother. When he was just a teenager, Einstein was pondering what a light wave would look like if he could observe it while moving at light speed”

This is Fox News article on Open Source in Brazil. I’m not sure excatly how they’ll takle this issue, but it should be interseting.

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FOXNews.com – Business – Activists Urge Free Open Source Software: “John Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, told a gathering inside a packed warehouse that poor nations can’t solve their problems unless they stop paying expensive software licensing fees.”

Another blow to the administration’s attempts to try detainees in thier modern Alcatraz in Cuba.

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Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Ruled Illegal (washingtonpost.com): “A federal judge ruled this morning that special military tribunals the Pentagon has used to determine the likely guilt of most of the 500 men held at a prison in Guantanamo Bay — and to justify their continued imprisonment — are illegal.”

Slate has a full stock of good stories today, here is another:

Nutty for Nino – Antonin Scalia for chief justice. Seriously. By Nicholas Thompson

The idea of Antonin Scalia as chief justice of the Supreme Court gives liberals the heebie-jeebies. To the left, elevating the deeply conservative justice would lead to disaster, death, and destruction. But they’re wrong. “

Check out this great article about Hilary’s positioning for the Democratic party in ’06 and ’08. Possibly putting herself in the race for ’08 presidential race, or more interesetingly a Vice-Presidental run with John Edwards as the banner carrier. Interesting

Checkout the story:

Safe, Legal, and Never – Hillary Clinton’s anti-abortion strategy. By William Saletan: “Two days ago, marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Hillary Clinton gave a speech outlining her views on abortion, contraception, and abstinence. ‘Clinton Seeking Shared Ground Over Abortions,’ said the front page of the New York Times. ‘Hillary in the middle on values issues,’ agreed the Washington Times. But Clinton isn’t trying to end the abortion war. She’s repositioning her party to win it.”

Here is a good article from Slate. check it out, baseball meets teaching theory:

How I Learned To Pitch – A Seattle Mariners coach teaches me to throw a change-up, and much more. By Eric Liu: “Over the last two and a half years, I traveled across the country in search of life-changing teachers and mentors from all different walks. I met race-car drivers, Indian potters, ballet dancers, rappers, research scientists, law professors, Montessori teachers, aerobatic pilots, master carpenters, and many others. The book that emerged from those travels is called Guiding Lights. It tells the stories of several of these remarkable people and the ways they transform their apprentices. And it’s the basis for a series of four pieces on Slate and NPR’s Day to Day in which figures from the book teach me to do something new.”

You must check this out! One of the best “case mods” I have ever seen.

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iGrill.co.uk: “Inspired by a thinkgeek april fool’s day joke, the iGrill is a 600Mhz Mini-ITX motherboard, an 80GB hard drive, and a 250W PSU, running Gentoo Linux, all enclosed in a George Foreman grill. Technically it’s lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.

And yes, this webserver is hosted on the grill.”

A nice obiturary for the man who invented the Bundt pan and the rotating microwave plate.

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The Bundt Pan Man, Letting Them Eat Cake (washingtonpost.com): “Should we take a moment to say goodbye to the man who invented the Bundt pan? We should, especially considering that he also gave the world the microwave carousel platter.

His name was H. David Dalquist, and he died last week of heart failure at age 86 in Edina, Minn.”

Check out this CNET news story on Open Source:

Open source reshaping services market | CNET News.com: “The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.

With the number of open-source products on the rise, there has been a surge in services offerings–such as consulting and support–designed specifically for open-source software like Linux, the Apache Web server and MySQL database.”

Read in awe! As a young computer scientist (26) my career will mark the full second half of computer science as a discipline. Read the first messages online about various technologies/events/companies that are driving the feild today.

Well worth it, check out Google’s Usenet timeline:

20 Year Archive on Google Groups: “Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account.”