Daniel F. Moore

Very cool map of pre-WWI Europe (from here)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:34:16 -0500

Very cool map of pre-WWI Europe (from here)

I love the Intel commercials. This is my favorite one!

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:57:49 -0500

I love the Intel commercials. This is my favorite one!

"One of you moms has gotta speak up, because I can’t decide if I want to do it lengthwise or..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:28 -0500

““One of you moms has gotta speak up, because I can’t decide if I want to do it lengthwise or widthwise,” King Solomon said dividedly.”

- Tom Swifties Excised from the Bible.

20 years ago today… the wall came down.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:40:04 -0500

20 years ago today… the wall came down.

"We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:12:16 -0400

“We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists—they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.”

- Peggy Noonan: We’re Governed by Callous Children

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: What to Expect: The Third Decade.

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:49:57 -0400

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: What to Expect: The Third Decade.:

What to expect from a typical 30-year-old

"Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:56:05 -0400

“Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields.”

- Op-Ed Contributor - Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast - NYTimes.com

Artist - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation of Germany’s...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:58:48 -0400

Artist - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation of Germany’s invasion of Ukraine…

Absolutely incredible. Very moving.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:06:06 -0400

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.”

- “People Will Come”

"After two and a half centuries of this fascinating debate, I have to say that my own sympathies lie..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:39:55 -0400

“After two and a half centuries of this fascinating debate, I have to say that my own sympathies lie with those who have found markets, on balance, to be on the side of the angels. But I should also add that I find the specific notion that markets corrupt our morals, and determine our ethical destiny, to be a vulgar quasi-Marxist notion about as convincing as that other vulgar notion that ownership of the means of production is critical to our economic destiny. The idea that working with and within markets fuels our pursuit of self-interest, greed, avarice, and self-love, in ascending orders of moral turpitude, is surely at variance with what we know about ourselves.”

- Feeble Critiques: Capitalism’s Petty Detractors

Feynman: Honors is uniforms…

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:36 -0400

Feynman: Honors is uniforms…

Alumnus George E. Smith invents CCD sensor, 1969, receives Nobel Prize, 2009 | The University of Chicago

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:12:50 -0400

Alumnus George E. Smith invents CCD sensor, 1969, receives Nobel Prize, 2009 | The University of Chicago:

Another UChicago Nobel:

University of Chicago alumnus George E. Smith (SM’56, PhD’59) will receive a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor.”

Eject Eject Eject » Learning from the Olympics

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:45:32 -0400

Eject Eject Eject » Learning from the Olympics:

And so it goes. Yet another speech, with props appropriate for a fourth grade show and tell, to sell the rubes on something they seem unwilling to want to buy. And another appeal to oratory in place of substance. And meanwhile, out at the edge of the campfire’s glow, lean and cruel wolves circle red-eyed and hungry, watching and learning.

Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link"

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:56:03 -0400

Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link":

Cool! Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor.

Historic Tale Construction Kit

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:03:09 -0400

Historic Tale Construction Kit:

lot’s of fun

Eliot A. Cohen: There Are Only Two Choices Left on Iran

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:59:58 -0400

Eliot A. Cohen: There Are Only Two Choices Left on Iran:

Excellent article.

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:03:42 -0400

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.”

- George Orwell

Braves Manager Bobby Cox agrees to contract extension

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:17:36 -0400

Braves Manager Bobby Cox agrees to contract extension:

One more year!

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant"

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:48:04 -0400

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant”

- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Tiny technologies could produce big energy solutions - CNN.com

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:38:20 -0400

Tiny technologies could produce big energy solutions - CNN.com:

My former research group is getting famouser and famouser:

“[The nanoscale] can make the components small, sensitive and high-performance,” said Zhong Lin “Z.L.” Wang, distinguished professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering. “The toughness and the flexibility increase by orders of magnitude.”