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Reading List: The Liberty Amendments 26 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Levin, Mark R. The Liberty Amendments. New York: Threshold Editions, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-0627-0. To many observers including this one, the United States appear to be in a death spiral, guided by an ...
Reading List: Radical Abundance 23 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
Drexler, K. Eric. Radical Abundance. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61039-113-9. Nanotechnology burst into public awareness with the publication of the author's Engines of Creation in 1986....
Reading List: Enjoy the Decline 20 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
Clarey, Aaron. Enjoy the Decline. Seattle: CreateSpace, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4802-8476-0. Many readers may find this book deeply cynical, disturbing, and immoral. I found it cynical, disturbing, and immor...
Barely Radioactive Elements 19 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
“What is the heaviest stable element?” This question, easily posed, is not so easy to answer. In fact, nobody knows. Barely Radioactive Elements explores the stability of heavy elements, the difficult...
Fourmilab Internet Connection Upgrade Complete 16 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am
Today Fourmilab's fibre optic Internet connection was upgraded from 20 megabits/second symmetrical, at which speed it had run since it was installed in 2008 (which involved digging up the street), to ...
Reading List: Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics 14 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Jurich, E. J. Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics. 2nd. ed. Seattle: Amazon Digital Services, 2013. ASIN B00C0BMTGU. If you can get past the sloppy copy-editing and production values, this book is a useful i...
Reading List: Quartered Safe Out Here 10 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
Fraser, George MacDonald. Quartered Safe Out Here. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, [1992, 2001] 2007. ISBN 978-1-60239-190-1. George MacDonald Fraser is best known as the author of the Flashman histori...
Reading List: Xenophobia 6 Aug 2013 | 02:39 am
Cawdron, Peter. Xenophobia. Seattle: CreateSpace, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4905-6823-2. This is the author's second novel of humanity's first contact with an alien species, but it is not a sequel to his earli...
Reading List: How Civilizations Die 30 Jul 2013 | 04:38 am
Goldman, David P. How Civilizations Die. Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-596-98273-4. I am writing this review in the final days of July 2013. A century ago, in 1913, there was a broa...
Floating Point Benchmark: Go Language Added 28 Jul 2013 | 06:34 pm
I have posted an update to my trigonometry-intense floating point benchmark which adds Go to the list of languages in which the benchmark is implemented. A new release of the benchmark collection incl...
