October 9th, 2008 — Politics
For those who like to fact check, as it turns out, the 3 million dollar overhead projector mentioned by Sen. McCain in the debate was in fact a replacement planetarium projector for the historic Sky Theater.
To clarify, the Adler Planetarium requested federal support – which was not funded – to replace the projector in its historic Sky Theater, the first planetarium theater in the Western Hemisphere. The Adler’s Zeiss Mark VI projector – not an overhead projector – is the instrument that re-creates the night sky in a dome theater, the quintessential planetarium experience. The Adler’s projector is nearly 40 years old and is no longer supported with parts or service by the manufacturer. It is only the second planetarium projector in the Adler’s 78 years of operation.
Science literacy is an urgent issue in the United States. To remain competitive and ensure
national security, it is vital that we educate and inspire the next generation of explorers to
pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Senator McCain’s statements about the Adler Planetarium’s request for federal support do
not accurately reflect the museum’s legislative history or relationship with Senator Obama.
October 8th, 2008 — Uncategorized
October 3rd, 2008 — Uncategorized
- Popcorn and beer, gearing up for the debate. #
- Go Phils! #
- Embarrased to know a Hillary supporter who is voting for M/P based on Palin. #
- Palin did better than I expected. #
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October 3rd, 2008 — economics, Politics
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is interested in electing the candidate who will be best for the economy. But along the way he has learned the iron law of the political marketplace: there is an excess supply of political blowhards, and there are far too few unbiased experts. Even worse, it is hard to sort out just who is an expert and who is a blowhard.
But Scott had an ingenious insight:an anonymous survey of leading economists might yield an unbiased snapshot of the opinions of professional economists. He paid a survey company to survey over 500 members of the American Economic Association, and he just released the findings.
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September 29th, 2008 — Uncategorized
- @chriscera we tried using BC for bug tracking. It was a little too informal. Settled on hosted FogBugz, I used API to auto trk crashes. #
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September 28th, 2008 — Uncategorized
- wireless on the FIOS router is *very* tweazy #
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September 26th, 2008 — Uncategorized
- updating PhillyTech #
- @myfirstpaycheck server logs can over count visitors, GA is suceptible to cookie blockers #
- @myfirstpaycheck also look at quantcast.com #
- Yahoo Pipes let’s me easily build data feeds to source PhillyTech news. Sweet. #
- Heading into Philly #
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September 25th, 2008 — Uncategorized
- Yahoo! Pipes is da bomb #
- @iamspencer we were talking about this last night. She has a tough job. #
- I hate talking advertisements on web pages. #
- PhillyFanatic Terrorist? http://tinyurl.com/3s5upe #
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