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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 08:59 PM
Original article: Real inconvenient truths

On Climate Change

I too was disappointed to read Camille Paglia's comments on climate change, but it's also a shame to read ad hominem attacks.

Instead, I'll list there interesting URLs that I hope Paglia reads:

  • The graph of global temperatures for the last 150 years. Note that this cannot have been caused by solar changes, since the sun and the earth's orbit doesn't change on 20 year time scales like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png
  • The IPCC report on the physics of climate change. Bear in mind that the people who write this report are scientists, not democrats or activists. http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
  • The IPCC report on the biological and environmental effects of climate change. Again, Al Gore had nothing to do with writing this. http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:27 PM
Original article: Why Johnny can't code

Awfully confused

I have to admit to being awfully confused by this article. In about 30 seconds of web searching I found several open source implementations of very traditional BASIC. Here, for example, is the home page for Chipmunk Basic, which seems to be just what the author is looking for:

http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/

and as the bottom of this page shows, there are literally dozens of other basic and basic-like languages available for free for nearly so.

So what am I missing?

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