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August 8, 2006

Illogicacy

Atheist Ethicist: Well Founded Beliefs

Great treatise on how the inability for people to properly reason (I called it Illogicacy here after Innumeracy) leads them to make terrible mistakes that result in harm to others, often worse than those that society often feels harm society most.

This blog is really, really excellent, BTW. Really makes you think. Sometimes just think that you would have never come up with that or could never have expressed that so logically and eloquently.

August 1, 2006

DIY RAID-5 NAS

Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS | Tom's Networking

I'm going to need to get one of those cards and a bunch of drives to augment my data server with a terabyte of RAID-5 goodness. *yum*

Desalinate water while ascending your space elevator?

Technology Review: Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean

A water desalination system using carbon nanotube-based membranes could significantly reduce the cost of purifying water from the ocean. The technology could potentially provide a solution to water shortages both in the United States, where populations are expected to soar in areas with few freshwater sources, and worldwide, where a lack of clean water is a major cause of disease.