{"id":3856,"date":"2017-01-30T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2017-01-30T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:20:26","slug":"odd-lots-304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.nickcolebooks.com\/2017\/01\/23\/trouble-at-the-barnes-noble\/\" target=\"_blank\">Author Nick Cole has his finger on what&#8217;s wrong with print publishing<\/a>. A big chunk of it is Barnes &amp; Noble. He says what I&#8217;ve been saying for some time: The fate of the Big 5 print publishers is tied to B&amp;N&#8217;s. When B&amp;N goes under, there will be blood in the streets of Manhattan.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/in-1929-tvs-had-bottle-cap-sized-screens-with-just-30-l-1791250849\" target=\"_blank\">Great article on that 1920s curiosity, spinning-disk television<\/a>, with the first actual videos I&#8217;ve ever seen of the bottle-cap sized screens in action.<\/li>\n<li>And more cool hacks, if newer ones: <a href= \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tbKGjRoSofA\" target=\"_blank\">A home-made full-auto crossbow<\/a>. Dip it in holy water and the vampires will run screaming, like they did in <em><a href= \"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338526\/\" target=\"_blank\">Van Helsing<\/a><\/em>. (Thanks to <a href= \"http:\/\/bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bradford C. Walker<\/a> for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>The cool hacks never quit! Here&#8217;s some basic information on <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/01\/27\/raspberry-pi-sdr\/\" target= \"_blank\">using an SDR dongle with the Raspberry Pi<\/a>. There&#8217;s actually a lot of activity on SDR for the RPi these days. Google it, but budget an hour or two for the browsing. One note up front: Consensus is that the original RPi doesn&#8217;t have the muscle to do SDR well. Use a version 2 or 3. (Thanks to Rick Hellewell for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>The science just keeps piling up: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/eating-fatty-foods-such-as-steak-cheese-and-butter-can-make-you-healthier-and-slimmer-study-reveals-a3417746.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eating fatty foods can make you healthier and slimmer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2938\" target=\"_blank\">You can do the science yourself<\/a>, as I explained in a series some time back.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/ct-obamacare-fail-health-care-insurance-medicine-0911-jm-20160909-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> has declared that Obamacare has failed<\/a>. When you lose the mainstream media, methinks it&#8217;s well and truly over.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56738-wild-history-of-radioactive-energy-drinks.html\" target=\"_blank\">The history of Radithor, the first nuclear energy drink<\/a>. Not a good idea, to put it mildly. Me, when I need more energy I just suck a few more Penguin Peppermints, or run up to 64th &amp; Greenway and get a 44 oz Diet Mountain Dew. Works. (Thanks to Esther Schindler for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Yeah. Radium, the gift that keeps on giving: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Curie&#8217;s notebooks, furniture, clothes, and other personal effects are still radioactive<\/a>, and will be for another 1,500 years or so. They&#8217;re considered national treasures by the French, and are stored in lead-lined boxes. You need to sign a waiver to unbox and view them. You go. I&#8217;ll watch the slide show.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/a-nuclear-energy-company-wants-to-build-americas-first-small-modular-r-2212178795.html\" target=\"_blank\">A nuclear energy company has applied to the NRC to build a small modular nuclear reactor<\/a>. &#8216;Bout damned time. There is NO solution&#8211;and I mean NO with a capital NO&#8211;to global warming that is not based on nuclear. If you do not enthusiastically support nuclear energy, don&#8217;t talk to me about global warming.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/wowway.net\/news\/read\/category\/Business\/article\/the_associated_press-spanish_tourist_towns_post_1st_snowfalls_in_decade-ap\" target=\"_blank\">Several Spanish towns saw their first significant snowfalls in 90 years recently<\/a>. One report like that means nothing. But I&#8217;m seeing more and more of them all the time. Also, teaching people that weather = climate cuts both ways; a couple of bad winters will have them thinking that the world is actually cooling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Nick Cole has his finger on what&#8217;s wrong with print publishing. A big chunk of it is Barnes &amp; Noble. He says what I&#8217;ve been saying for some time: The fate of the Big 5 print publishers is tied to B&amp;N&#8217;s. When B&amp;N goes under, there will be blood in the streets of Manhattan. 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