Link: World Wide Web turns 20, finally shakes that acne problem

I’m finally trying out WordPress, after rather frustrating experiences with Blogger and Tumblr.

Content is coming soon, I’m making sure it’s nice and ready!

Cheers,

Your inner Dave

My past stuff can be found on http://innerdave.tumblr.com/ and http://undefinedpattern.blogspot.com/

Link: That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story. | StarTribune.com

A very nice piece that explains very well why you people should really breathe and calm down on the road when a truck dares slowing you down for a few seconds.

Let me tell you a little about the truck driver you just flipped off because he was passing another truck, and you had to cancel the cruise control and slow down until he completed the pass and moved back over.

His truck is governed to 68 miles an hour, because the company he leases it from believes it keeps him and the public and the equipment safer.

The truck he passed was probably running under 65 mph to conserve fuel. You see, the best these trucks do for fuel economy is about 8 miles per gallon. With fuel at almost $4 per gallon — well, you do the math. And, yes, that driver pays for his own fuel.

He needs to be 1,014 miles from where he loaded in two days. And he can’t fudge his federally mandated driver log, because he no longer does it on paper; he is logged electronically.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/126619568.html

Link: Orbiter spots possible water seepage on surface of Mars

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Over the last several decades, evidence has piled up that Mars once played host to liquid water on its surface. But in its current geological era, the red planet is too cold and has too little atmosphere to allow liquid to survive for long. Even at the peak of Martian summer, water would evaporate off quickly during the day, or freeze solid as soon as night hit. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t exist beneath the surface, where pressures and temperatures might be quite different, so researchers have been looking for signs that some subterranean liquid might bubble to the surface. Now, scientists are reporting some changes on the Martian surface that seem to be best explained by a watery seep.

Via ArsTechnica http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/seasonal-changes-on-mars-hint-at-watery-flows.ars

Link: Inside North Korea

Earlier this year, David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for the Associated Press, along with Jean H. Lee, AP bureau chief in Seoul, were granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea as part of the AP’s efforts to expand coverage of the isolated communist nation. The pair made visits to familiar sites accompanied by government minders, and were also allowed to travel into the countryside accompanied by North Korean journalists instead of government officials. Though much of what the AP journalists saw was certainly orchestrated, their access was still remarkable. Collected here are some of Guttenfelder’s images from the trip that provide a glimpse of North Korea.

Fascinating journey into what must be the most secretive dictatorship out there.

Link: Apple & Microsoft Running Organized Campaign Against Android, Using Patents To Slow Us Down, Says Google

Google Inc. has issued a formal statement against Microsoft and Apple on their official blog today, stating that the two companies have joined up to battle against Android using the power of patents.

I shudder at the mere thought of Apple and Microsoft being allies. Eeewww.

http://www.redmondpie.com/apple-microsoft-running-organized-campaign-against-android-using-patents-to-slow-us-down-says-google (Redmond Pie)

Link: Report: Fukushima Plant Site Radiation Levels ‘Fatal to Humans’

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Weeks ago, officials at Japan’s radiation-seeping Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant had assured the public that the situation had “stabilized.” On Tuesday, however, TEPCO informed news outlets that officials have “detected the highest radiation levels at the facility since the initial earthquake and tsunami five months ago,”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/report-fukushima-plant-site-radiation-levels-fatal-humans/40699/