Month: April 2007
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Google Search Going Downhill – Shrimp Gobis
I saw lots of shrimp and their symbiotic companions, the shrimp gobis while diving.
So on search Google or Yahoo for shrimp gobies.
I’ve been trying Yahoo more these days on searching, sometimes I get much better results. It seems Google has too many shopping oriented results often.
I’m not finding a photograph online of a gobie (or goby) like the ones here. I think a blotchy shrimpgoby (Amblyeleotris periophthalma). This is from the book, The Coral and Coral Reef Fishes of Kuwait.
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Holographic disk drives
Wow! Reading the new issue of Popular Science, there are now on the market by Maxell 300 GB disks meant for professional archiving. And they expect by 2010 to have 1.6 TB (that’s about 350 DVDs worth) drives. And they write data to the disks about 30 times faster than DVDs also.
The data is stored in 3 dimensions in a special gel that they say should last 50 years.
At C Net here’s more information or just search Google for more.
Wait, this is even better, go to Maxell from one of these links as I see the link in the C-Net article is broken.
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What to do if you find out you are in a fairy tale
From the following post on bookofjoe:
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God’s Grandeur
God’s Grandeur
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.
From Bartelby.comI don’t know where I saved this link from but I had it in my bookmarks from a while back.
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The Cost of Bottled Water
The above is “organic” bottled water we got here. The bottle says it is filtered through fields that are certified organic.
The real cost of bottled water on the environment. There is certainly a lot drunk in the developing world and in the gulf! You could extrapolate the numbers whatever way.Triple Pundit: AskPablo: Exotic Bottled Water
And here’s another post on what a gallon of various things costs.