We interrupt this temporarily quietened blog to bring you an top link. Click right here and read "What can we learn from the policies that spurred the Industrial Revolution?" at Rick Bookstaber's place. If you read just one thing on the internet this week, make it this article. Most excellent brainfood.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
On the road
Your author is pretending to work while travelling around a bit for the next four days. Posting will be light this week. Here's Jack.
"Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
Saturday, September 24, 2011
The two most popular IKN posts of the last week...
...were this one that contained KCs wonderful chart, shown again here:
"This is a deceptively simple philosophy that I have been working on and fine tuning for most of my life. I am delighted to say that I believe I have refined it down to its essence- - sufficiently to share it with a select band of friends that may appreciate its elegance and simplicity."
Then this one, featuring Brent Cook and Mickey Fulp getting interviewed by the Kitco girl at a bar, JDs on ice at hand. Again shown right here.
Faster than light neutrinos
So let's see...
UPDATE: When hitting the publish button on this guff'n'nonsense, I wondered how long it would be before someone took the bait. Didn't take long.... By the way, the 5th rule of the internet is that irony doesn't travel.
UPDATE 2: Oh, just in case you haven't heard it yet here's the neutrino joke:
1) Scientists confirm that neutrinos do indeed travel faster than light
2) They then find a way of controlling a flow of neutrinos.
3) This controlled flow is then used to design a messaging system (it can be pretty simple, e.g. one burst of neutrinos is a 1, a double burst is a zero, binary computer systems take it from there)
4) As soon as the messaging system is understood it's used by somebody in, let's say, 2025, to send a message back to the person who invented the neutrino-control-and-messaging service on, let's say, May 23rd 2012.
5) The message sent back in time alerts us to a pending catastrophic event in, let's say, 2018 and how to avoid it.
6) We in 2012 take the necessary measures to avoid the event, thus it never happens.
7) This then negates the need for the message sent in the year 2025 to the year 2012.
8) Which means the message is never sent.
9) Which means the catastrophe is not avoided and it happens.
10) Wait a minute.....
UPDATE: When hitting the publish button on this guff'n'nonsense, I wondered how long it would be before someone took the bait. Didn't take long.... By the way, the 5th rule of the internet is that irony doesn't travel.
UPDATE 2: Oh, just in case you haven't heard it yet here's the neutrino joke:
The barman says, "Sorry mate, we don't serve neutrinos in here."
A neutrino walks into a bar.
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