Say it isn't so - Wind power not all pleasant breezes. "A group of Canadian and U.S. scientists reported Tuesday that computer simulations show that a large-scale use of wind farms to generate electrical power could create a significant temperature change over Earth's land masses." There is no free lunch. [ via Adam Curry ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Tim Oren ponders Why does the networked left keep losing? ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Meanwhile Wired is Longing for a blogging candidate. Only a matter of time, I should think... [ via Powerline, in an introspective post: Should Presidential candidates blog? ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
How "blue" is California? Check out this county-by-county map posted by Citizen Smash. We are a microcosm of the U.S. as a whole - red over most of the land, blue in the cities. But there are populous areas which are red - such as my own Ventura County... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
EastSouthWestNorth - awesome pictures from China. Very thought provoking, somehow; there's a whole world there which is not here. [ via The Peking Duck ] ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
ExtremeTech reviews the new video-on-demand service from Akimbo. Their approach is to sell you a box which receives video over your broadband connection and displays it on your TV. Then you subscribe to the service. We'll have to keep our eye on this one... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Just want to shout out for collision detection, Clive Thompson's blog. I link to him often and enjoy him daily. ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Like this - Bathsheba Grossman's "math art". The piece at right is "a 4-dimensional solid projected into 3-space, the 4-space analogue of the dodecahedron. It's named for its 120 dodecahedral faces, which appear skewed in this projection, but of course in 4-space they are all regular dodecahedra." Of course. I love it! ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
New Scientist interviews Benoit Mandelbrot - a fractal life. I really enjoyed this article because it made him seem like a nice guy; previously I had the impression he was a bit stuffy and rather full of himself. And then there's this: ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Q: What are you working on now?
A: My work is more varied than at any other point in my life. I am still carrying out research in pure mathematics. And I am working on an idea that I had several years ago on negative dimensions.
Negative dimensions? Wow.
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