One of my fave YouTube channels is Green Power Science.

Amidst the death and destruction from the earthquakes and aftershocks, it's important to note that they are experiencing 6.0 quakes in Tokyo and other cities. The buildings are nearly all standing.

This article at livestrong reminded me of when I had tapeworms as a child.

I was looking around for a hamster mange cure after an experience with a vet wasn't much help. Mange is a tick, and there are two kinds of "dip" to cure it.

Scan of an old article about glues.

It's not here. It's on this page -> Pictorial Guide to Cleaning out a Pool Water Filter.

Rubber shrinks when heated.

Metal expands when heated.

Computerists are aware of the Open Source, and Free Software engineering and political tendencies. They may also be aware of the resistance to patents on algorithms and software. However, I and others were unaware of the long legacy of historical skepticism toward patents.

I got into a discussion about fertilizing with human manure, and defended the practice, mainly because my grandmother did it.

Lodge has a pretty good page about caring for their pans, but I respectfully disagree with them about almost everything.

Here's an awesome tip from WikiPedia's page about Aluminium foil:

This is a javascript calculator that will estimate if taking a bus will cost less than what you pay in gasoline. Surprisingly, for short commutes, commuting by car is cheaper than getting a bus pass. (Calculator is on the full article.)

This is just a note to be found by search engines.

I had a weird problem with a configuration of phpmyadmin on top of lighttpd on top of Gentoo Linux.

The symptom was that phpmyadmin said "cookies must be enabled". Cookies were enabled in my browser.

A test of the setcookie() function in PHP (and the header() function as well) seemed to indicate that no header lines were being sent.

Turns out that this is related to the versions of PHP being installed.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml

My problem was that I wasn't compiling the CGI version of PHP. I probably had the CLI version installed.

To force the CGI version, add 'cgi' to your USE. (This is in /etc/make.config.)

Rebuild it (emerge php) and wait.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/179196/Historical-statistics-support-a-hypothe...

OMFG. This is wrong. It seemed the "in" thing for audio geeks, circa 2001, was to start using XLR connectors to wire together their stereos... to get balanced signals. Or "balanced", because those heavy duty cords and connectors are supposed to deliver mono audio signals.