From slashdot, this article on the top science and engineering advances of 2004:TRN’s Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004: Lots of cool stuff, including:“Nanotechnology
The burgeoning field of nanotechnology — the quest to build devices and materials from infinitesimal metal and semiconductor particles and even individual molecules — continued its fast pace this year.
A pair […]

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After reading this slate article, I wonder if the US will start making $500 and $1000 bills again:
Euro Trash - Even drug dealers are giving up on the dollar. By Daniel Gross

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CNN.com
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FT.com / Home UK - Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oilupdated: working link:Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil
Also, check out this nytimes article about how China is going after Alberta oil sands. China in Line as U.S. Rival for Canada Oil
updated, working link:LP: China in Line as U.S. Rival […]

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Here’s a fun little art quiz. Pretty easy for anybody that’s ever read Janson’s or Gardner’s.
Quiz: Art or Crap

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While I think the following article is a little too optimistic about fossil fuel reserves, it is overall a good summation of a lot of key points. Physics Today July 2004- Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-Term Energy Supplies
There’s also an article in this month’s issue about Tranforming the Electric Infrastructure, but I haven’t […]

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This book, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, makes for a great stocking stuffer and read. The reviews on amazon are pretty good too. Heinberg does slide over some things that his hippy nature is sure to loathe, like nuclear fission power for one. But, overall, it makes for […]

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I love seeing the random searches that lead to this page. Petrolium [sic], tommy westphal mind, snoop dog sayings, ratherisms. Those last two have a lot in common actually.
Last 20 Unique Search Engine Queries
Time Search Engine Query
12/15/04 @ 09:24am Yahoo: snoop dog sayings
12/15/04 @ 09:23am Yahoo: snoop dog sayings
12/13/04 @ 01:37pm Google: tommy westphal mind
12/11/04 @ 08:02pm Google: nanothoughts
12/10/04 @ 10:46am Alltheweb: kath bloom come here mp3
12/08/04 […]

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I haven’t posted in about a month. Here’s partly why: Piled Higher and Deeper
Although my weekly meetings are on wednesdays and not thursdays.

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