Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Soviet Moon Rover Found After Four Decades
April 29th, 2010Via: Register: A long-lost Soviet solar/nuclear robot buggy – mislaid in the early 1970s – has been found on the moon by a NASA survey satellite. The vehicle in question is the Lunokhod 1 rover, which landed in the Mare Imbrium aboard the Luna 17 lander in 1970. During the fortnight-long lunar days the machine […]
Pray, Hope, Wish for Rain
April 26th, 2010Must stay on target. MUST H I T U S! Related: Water Doom: The Spring Gave Out, Drought Continues
Mysterious Radio Waves Emitted from Nearby Galaxy
April 14th, 2010Via: New Scientist: There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before. “We don’t know what it is,” says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics […]
The Final Frontiersman
April 8th, 2010Via: VBS TV: In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the […]
List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
April 6th, 2010Via: Wikipedia: This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works, sorted by the nature of the catastrophe portrayed.
Cell on Wheels (COW)
March 23rd, 2010A Giant Ant Colony Pumped Full of Cement to Reveal Underground Structures
March 10th, 2010Off topic but must see.
Social Networking Sites?
February 10th, 2010France Ranked Best Place to Live—Again
January 7th, 2010Via: International Living: To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate. This involves a lot of number crunching from “official” sources, including government websites, the World Health Organization, and The Economist, to name but a few. We also […]
Does Anyone Know How to Express Linear Regression Channel Lines as a Strategy/Signal Component in EasyLanguage
December 13th, 2009I’ve been trying to convert code from a linear regression channel indicator into a strategy. I haven’t been able to figure out how to do it. In short, what I want to be able to do is buy when: Close is less than the lower channel line (I have no idea how to express this), […]
