tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57231582010-08-31T13:44:41.400-05:00"We must let the world tell us how the world is, and accept no other sources as authentic."Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-49508830576470517132010-08-31T13:44:00.000-05:002010-08-31T13:44:41.408-05:00

Leonardo's Notebooks: "Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows: that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his building. If you open your legs so much

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-60470189981660284922010-08-08T19:47:00.000-05:002010-08-08T19:47:29.974-05:00

Op-Ed Columnist - Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYTimes.comThis guy is right, our nation is falling apart right before our eyes. Why don't we care anymore?

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-85487769927651483242010-07-28T08:54:00.000-05:002010-07-28T08:54:57.030-05:00

Consumer confidence is down, so why are Americans spending more? - By Daniel Gross - Slate MagazineA fine and sensible analysis.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-75969895553942012642010-07-07T19:24:00.000-05:002010-07-07T19:24:36.105-05:00

Review: Icon CJ3B more than the sum of its impressive parts — AutoblogThere is nothing like a thing built with a true passion for quality. It's great when someone cares about the details.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-59155841255077575762010-06-30T14:07:00.000-05:002010-06-30T14:07:29.943-05:00

We All Had To Update Firefox Because Of Farmville UsersIs this really what the browser had become, a place where people can slack off at work with games like Farmville? I'm ashamed for us all.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-66422725068932913242010-06-16T17:41:00.000-05:002010-06-16T17:41:29.676-05:00

Buffett, Gates ask billionaires to give away wealth ReutersWow, this is pretty incredible. It's pretty obvious the capitalist system has serious flaws, all you need for proof is to look at the increasing disparity between the upper and lower economic strata, but perhaps, if rich people can do things like this, the world isn't a place where all that matters is money?

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-27034808542669164882010-05-07T02:25:00.000-05:002010-05-07T02:25:15.323-05:00

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook AccountPerhaps this guy is right, perhaps we should all remove ourselves from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg does seem like a knob.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-76666571043335957072010-04-06T13:04:00.000-05:002010-04-06T13:04:36.029-05:00

Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Nice Person" - Political Hotsheet - CBS NewsHere is someone who disagrees with the current administration but also disagrees with the nutcases at Fox News. I applaud his courage for speaking out like this, and I'm sad that such behavior is unusual.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-61521868876733835972010-03-26T12:15:00.000-05:002010-03-26T12:15:34.915-05:00

Mozilla Stops Development of Firefox for Windows Mobile - PCWorldMicrosoft, I thought you were leaving this silly anti-competitive behavior behind you. All you're doing is strengthening your competition. This was truly a bad play.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-33975411578421708822010-03-08T01:15:00.001-06:002010-03-15T16:45:07.333-05:00

Tea party candidates falling short - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com Fox News, your tea party is a complete joke.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-83776367011145890272010-03-15T16:44:00.000-05:002010-03-15T16:44:00.625-05:00

Puppy! - Joel on Software:Thanks for all the great articles Joel, and thanks for this jem:"Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-78593842105839417042010-03-07T07:39:00.000-06:002010-03-07T07:39:38.928-06:00

Frank Ahrens: Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong - washingtonpost.com: "'It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software.'"A lot of people don't know or understand this. Finding bugs is a statistical game, and the definition of "bug" changes with environmental conditions.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-62938386499320461782010-03-06T10:30:00.000-06:002010-03-06T10:30:32.665-06:00

Chicxulub Impact EffectsThis website is pretty cool, it shows the effects on our planet of the asteroid stike that killed the dinosaurs.You'll need to have Google Earth installed, along with a plugin, in order to see the maps, which are impressive. The asteroid was 7.45 miles wide and hit at 44,460 miles per hour, far in excess of the Mexican speed limit.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-55024558958365461142010-03-05T07:29:00.000-06:002010-03-05T07:29:22.737-06:00

Good riddance to YOU - Fortune Brainstorm TechEven though I blog, I have to say I appreciate this guy's perspective quite a bit. There really is a lot of garbage out there, and what I generate is probably no exception.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-6970751596234639042010-02-28T14:38:00.001-06:002010-02-28T14:40:59.944-06:00

'Spygate' teenager demands webcam pix from Pa. school This guy, 16 year old Blake Robbins, and his supportive parents, are heroes in the battle for personal privacy. His parents are heroes for letting him represent himself in front of the media, and he's a hero for not backing down to the over the top emotional display Lindy Matsko, his assistant vice principal, recently engaged in. From Blake

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-73884802234382446482010-02-27T13:44:00.003-06:002010-02-27T13:46:44.602-06:00

If you use lmgtfy.com to search for the text "Let me Google that for you," do you cause a vortex that makes the universe implode? Let's find out! Click here*. *Disclaimer: JamieLaing.com and it's affiliates are not responsible for unintentional merge with universal singularity. Also not responsible if, in that singularity, you experience the rest of eternity within the scalding husk of a robot

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-18110505975441681412010-02-16T19:08:00.000-06:002010-02-16T19:08:39.333-06:00

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-67847333230057921752010-02-09T09:17:00.000-06:002010-02-09T09:17:56.765-06:00

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything:"Nanopool" owns the patent. Should a person purchase stock in this company?

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-46424055944185068642010-02-04T07:15:00.002-06:002010-02-04T07:28:21.924-06:00

New England Journal of Medicine Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients - WSJ.com: "Study Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients" This is amazing and, I think, reinforces what I said about pattern matching and sentience a couple of posts ago. It's also tragic and horrifying, being trapped in your own body all this time, aware but unable to communicate. Reader, you have much to be thankful

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-69601410390026583942010-02-02T11:40:00.002-06:002010-02-02T11:44:56.626-06:00

Sensitive enough to detect your breath? That's sensitive. (More)And look, it's made in Portugal.

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-7946637966177981012010-02-02T11:18:00.002-06:002010-02-02T11:38:08.420-06:00

We are pattern matching machines, like all creatures that hunt or evade. That's a big group. In fact, I can't think of a creature that doesn't engage in one of those two activities. Even a significant number of plants hunt or evade, and while those behaviors are simplistic and devoid of neural activity, they still involve pattern matching at the chemical level.So, the activity is out there,

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-54416506869533134192010-01-18T00:11:00.003-06:002010-01-18T02:00:04.859-06:00

When I see articles like this one about Google's potential decision to lift the censorship of search results in China, I get a feeling of real hope. It almost makes one believe all the dreams we bandied about during the goofy days when the internet was young and anything seemed possible.What I really like is the idea that Chinese people are gathering at Google's offices in Beijing to demostrate

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-72985443031543256042009-12-31T17:34:00.002-06:002009-12-31T17:44:12.963-06:00

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-14556075347590062762009-12-11T11:32:00.000-06:002009-12-11T11:43:50.977-06:00

Happy Birthday Liba!Sent from my HTC

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723158.post-14348188204205635522009-12-10T10:17:00.000-06:002009-12-10T10:18:09.581-06:00

But rerouted and now running less than an hour late.Travel tip: tip the skycap like a mofo and watch him smooth talk the ticketing manager. Also it helps if he has the hots for your girfriend.Sent from my HTC

Jamie Lainghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15710335074271592940noreply@blogger.com