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DARPA on Red Balloons: We have a winner!
IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 5, 2009 MIT RED BALLOON TEAM WINS DARPA NETWORK CHALLENGE The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge...
John Stewart on ClimateGate
This is pretty funny, especially if you know the whole scoop. NOTE: Stewart correctly points out at the end that this does NOT debunk warming, it just “doesn’t look good”. ...
Red Balloon Challenge from DARPA
DARPA – the advanced technology research wing of the US Military – is always coming up with the most fun research and today’s Red Balloon social media experiment is no exception to that rule. Ten huge red weather balloons were launc...
Internet News Flash: STOP forwarding all those emails with “humor” or “wisdom” to your friends. They are talking about how you do this, and it’s not flattering.
OK, this just in from my Holiday Bad Mood Department: STOP forwarding all those emails with “humor” or “wisdom” or stupid pictures to your friends! Instead, send them a REAL note with REAL information. No, they do NO...
Have a Merry Microloan Christmas
This year I won’t be giving out more than a few tiny token presents to my friends and family, but I will be giving some of the best gifts I have ever given. The Nobel prize winning efforts of the Grameen Bank have sponsored the poor with sma...
Twitter Outage ? Twitter down? Twitter Problems? ” Something is Technically Wrong ” message ?
Is it just me or has Twitter been down for several minutes now? OMG Twitter is down, twitter is down! In the early days Twitter’s uptime challenges seemed more commonplace. Part of this post is just an SEO experiment to see if these co...

