Monday, December 14, 2009

Truth

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Google's flawed "AlGoreithm"

When you start entering a search term into Google's standard search page, Google will display a list of words or phrases with the most "hits" using those letters. For example, if you enter "w-a-t-e-r-g", Google will return suggested search terms like "watergeeks" "water glass" and "watergate". Strangely however, if you enter the letters "c-l-i-m-a-t-e-g", Google will suggesting words like "climateguard" (27,300 hits) and "climatemp" (25,000 hits) while avoiding the term "climategate" (>14,000,000 hits). You don't suppose the anomalous behavior of this AlGoreithm has anything to do with Al Gore being a Senior Adviser to Google?

Monday, December 7, 2009

Bert Rutan Quote

At the Experimental Aircraft Association's EAA Airventure 2009 Oshkosh Conference, the famous aerospace engineer, and designer of SpaceShipOne expressed his views on cap-and-trade:

“...if someone is aggressively selling a technical product whose merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit."

Saturday, December 5, 2009

CBC Documentary "The Unofficial Story"

For couple of years now, I have been acquainted with some subversive people. These people, often labeled "truthers," reject the official explanation of what happened on September 11, 2001. They believe that the evidence on 9/11 points to a controlled demolition of the three World Trade Center towers that collapsed that day. To make matters worse, these people suggest that in order for this to have happened, factions within the U.S. Government had foreknowledge of the events of 9/11 and were complicit in their unfolding. An "inside job" if you will. This is what a recent CBC Fifth Estate documentary calls "The Unofficial Story." Those familiar with only the "official" story should watch this documentary.
If, after your own personal investigation of the unofficial story, you agree that 9/11 isn't what we've been led to believe, you'll never look at "official" explanations the same way. Your sense of justice will demand that lies be exposed, and that the real truth be told. Then, like me, you'll be called a "truther" too.