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  • Wildfire Containment Percentage – Say What??!!

    George Rebane The newspaper’s headline blares that ‘The Yuba Fire 30% Contained’, you nod your head thinking that it is good news since yesterday the fire was reported to be only 5% contained.  But then you take a look at the published burn area maps for the last two days and see that today’s fire…

  • Medpedia – The New Collaborative Online Encyclopedia of Medicine and Health

    George Rebane James Currier of Ooga Labs just announced the development and launch of a new wiki that promises to be the premier online service for everyone concerned with health, and that should just about cover everyone on the planet.  RR readers were introduced to James some months back (here), and, true to form, he…

  • The Walking Desk is Here!!

    George Rebane This comes to you from our ‘Live Long and Prosper’ department.  In this morning’s WSJ I saw an ad that elicited a “Sumbich!  They finally did it.”, and a startled “What?!” from Jo Ann.  Someone is introducing a walking desk into the workplace to keep us all healthier (more info here) About ten…

  • Memories of Arthur C. Clarke (1917- 2008)

    Wayne Watson, Guest Commentator* Clarke died last week, March 18. His background has been written about extensively in the intervening time on the internet and media. Over many years, my wife and I have often followed his writings, contributions to technology, movies, and efforts to promote science. I’ll only provide a few personal comment here.…

  • Ruminations – 18mar2008

    George Rebane ‘War fades as story’ – now that we are making progress, the media’s interest have waned. But then, why advertize the other side’s successes?  As a story it should/could have faded much earlier and saved both American and Iraqi lives.  A broader look at this by the Miami Herald is provided here. One…

  • Ruminations – 12mar2008

    George Rebane TV is changing.  It is merging with the internet, or is the internet merging with TV.  It doesn’t matter, with broadband connectivity that is not mediated by government, content will follow the eyeballs.  Take at look at this new service www.hulu.com . Global Warming: No Urgent Danger; No Quick Fix   With a nod…

  • Ooga Labs is James Currier is What’s Happening Now!

    George Rebane Today RR has belatedly established a link to the Ooga Labs Blog that is the online voice and vision of James Currier.  To you people of my generation, James is an exemplar and phenom of the young 21st century.  He is a recognized and successful dotcom entrepreneur popped from one of the east…

  • Ruminations – 2feb2008

    George Rebane • SuperBowl Analytics – we were a mite early • More on the DA space issue in the Union • How closely do the candidates match your views? SuperBowl Analytics – On this SuperBowl weekend Jo Ann and I will watch one of our few sporting events during the year.  We only get…

  • The Daniel Pearl Standard

    George Rebane Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered six years ago in Pakistan by radical Islamists.  Danny was an exceptional person and the journalist who headed the newspaper’s South Asia bureau.  His father, Dr. Judea Pearl, a world-renowned computer scientist and humanitarian, wrote a memorial to his son to commemorate the anniversary…

  • Ruminations – 28jan2008

    George Rebane fooled by the current economic stimulation package hiring managers are starting to pay people for an interview – Even level-headed columnists are fooled by the current economic stimulation package making its rounds through Congress.  In a recent Sac Bee column Ruben Navarrette writes hopefully that “A stimulus may not work exactly as expected,…

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