An interesting idea in the Washington Examiner: Read the bills? How about reading the Constitution?. “A better idea can be found in a resolution recently introduced by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-KY, requiring all new legislation to be posted online for 72 hours before consideration. That could put the distributed intelligence of the web to work, [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Niobium – Nb
The element of newbies, Nb? I’d never heard of this before. “Niobium is a rare, soft, malleable, ductile, gray-white metal. It has a body-centered cubic crystalline structure and in its physical and chemical properties it resembles tantalum. It must be placed in a protective atmosphere when processed at even moderate temperatures because it tends to [...]
Fighting Dirty In Scrabble
Here are some excellent Scrabble strategies: