Monthly Archives: February 2008

What an amazing video.

By Rick | Published: February 22, 2008
Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style.display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player1","320","260","7"); s1.addParam("wmode","transparent"); s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","260"); s1.addVariable("width","320"); s1.addVariable("file","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/RandyPauschreprising.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/RandyPauschreprising.jpg"); s1.addVariable("link","http://www.alteredreality.net/blog/images/RandyPauschreprising.flv"); s1.write("player1"); Thanks Dan. Manly
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A repost from Boortz.

By Rick | Published: February 21, 2008
Boortz is too far to the right for me but if you read MY blog you would know that I am a pro-business kind of person. There has been much talk of “taking” some of Exxon Mobil’s profits by the far left. Some interesting points: EXXON MOBILE PROFITS I covered this on the Information Overload portion of [...]
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Global Warming?

By Rick | Published: February 21, 2008
This just goes to show you that looking at one year (or two, or 10) of warming/cooling doesn’t amount to fundamental climate change. As I have stated before, much of the data suggests that at the very least the jury is still out on the cause. The article linked below doesn’t prove or disprove that there is [...]
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This pretty much sums up how I feel…

By Rick | Published: February 18, 2008
I found this interesting. The quote below is from a book titled “The Bad Boy of Baltimore” which is a biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Rodgers. Page 409 reads: By the mid-1930’s, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: ‘There is no genuine justice in any scheme of [...]
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Priceless

By Rick | Published: February 11, 2008
I concur. Manly
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