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About Me :
Providing well-tempered instruments for a sometimes-intemperate world.
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Austin, Texas
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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | science education, engineering
    High Voltage Arcs and Sparks Page

    Get 'cher spark goin'!

    Quoted: Longest manmade spark, Substation Transformer Explosion, 115kV, 230kV, and 500kV Air-Break Switches Arcing, crane tangles with power line, Massive positive lightning bolt, and 1.6 million volt Lichtenberg Figure Discharge. Also, Lichtenberg Figures, shrunken coins, rare technical books, and tesla coil information

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 15 days ago | engineering, science education, funny

    Handy.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 16 days ago | Funny, comics
    Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

    Schulz City.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 26 days ago | news, health, science education
    FT.com - The man who invented exercise

    Quoted: In the early years after the second world war, health researchers in Britain noticed a curious epidemic: people had begun dying of heart attacks in unprecedented numbers. Nobody knew why, and so a scientist in London named Jerry Morris set up a vast study to examine the heart-attack rates in people of different occupations – schoolteachers, postmen, transport workers and more.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - 30 days ago | funny
    I flowcharted the Beatles...

    I'd be a bit disappointed if I went to an Edward Tufte lecture series and this flowchart of the lyrics from 'hey Jude' didn't show up at some point.

    I think fondly of the professor's Good Fight every time I find myself sitting in another 'PowerPoint engineering' meeting. Doesn't anybody communicate in complete sentences anymore?

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 28 2009 | history, politics
    Seven Lessons in Strategy from Byzantine Empire

    History lesson from Edward Luttwak, an expert in Byzantine history.

    The Byzantine empire went on and on and on, using rules of statecraft whose wisdom resonates today. The article picks a baker's half-dozen of the author's favorites.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2009 | environment, science, ecology
    Discussion of personal privation vs political action.

    Essay by Derrick Jensen on the Orion Magazine website titled, "Forget Shorter Showers. Why personal change is not a substitute for political change".

    Quoted: We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2009 | work, productivity, programming
    Working hard is overrated - blog entry

    Brief essay by Caterina Fake (formerly of Flickr) on the difference between "working hard" and "freaking out", working on the "right problem", etc. The essay is simple in that she assumes that the reader doesn't take her for a fool (i.e. "work smarter not harder!") but that's her message.

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2009 | space, science education

    The best illustration I've ever seen of how the ISS has come together, and what all of the components are & how they fit together and what they do.

    It's even better in the details. If you click on the right-hand tabs, you get a description of each module: even cooler, each description includes a 360" rotation animation for the module.

    USATODAY.com

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    0 starsbrad | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 09 2009 | food, japanese

    From the online issue of The Atlantic, introduction to a whole 'nother type of haute cuisine.

    Quoted: The non-Japanese-speaking traveler lucky enough to wind up in a really good kaiseki restaurant thus faces a twofold problem: not only does he lack the words to understand what the food is, he lacks the words to understand what the food means.

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