From my reading journal. We haven’t posted from the r-j for a while, so will catch up over the next few weeks. 6/16/08 Fortune’s Formula William Poundstone John Kelly at Bell Labs develops a strategy of risk management, applied at blackjack by MIT mathematician Edward O Thorp. Later he applies the same concept to hedge [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2009
Analog TV Transition News
Man frustrated with converter box shoots TV, in police standoff [Giz] How We Bungled Transition [Wired] High-Def Television Promises Sharper Crap [The Onion] Converter Box Scam Websites [KSDK/NBC] Hidden Camera in DTV Converter Box is a Hoax [Wired] [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc] Related Posts: Requiem For Analog TV, Lurching Toward Digital
More Sagebrush
So need more “Sagebrush” blogs? The Sagebrush Variety Show, audio theater with political satire and commentary The Nevada Sagebrush, student voice of University of Nevada, Reno Parsley & Sagebrush Band, bluegrass combo Sagebrush & Serendipity, personal blog of artemisia Sagebrush Wisdom, “common sense thoughts from the country” Sagebrush Valentine, 6 artists with 1 title create [...]
Requiem for Analog TV
Noted author Bruce Sterling presents a eulogy for analog TV, at the Berkeley Art Museum, February 17 2009. [flash http://vimeo.com/3069388] [video link] kudos boingboing Previously: Analog TV Shutdown Delayed, Lurching Toward Digital, Switching to Digital TV
Solar 3: Connecting
[This is the third in a series of articles describing installation of a solar hot water system.] With the panel now securely mounted on the roof, we can turn our attention to plumbing. With an electronics background, I have done plenty of soldering– but only wires, not copper pipe. YouTube has several videos demonstrating the [...]
Analog TV Shutdown Delayed
US Congress approved a delay from the planned February 17 shutdown of broadcast analog TV signals to a new deadline of June 12. The President is expected to sign the measure into law. From the Washington Post: The Federal Communications Commission has said that centers set up to answer consumer questions about the conversion were [...]