Cobol is the opposite of a modern computer langauge, in some ways. But it is the language that a lot of business systems are written in, so chances are you “use” Cobol almost as much as you “use” Linux, even if you never heard of either.
Daily Archives: September 26, 2009
Why did somebody put this hilarious video on my facebook page?
Its a 1980s dating video montage. I think some of these guys were left over from the 70s.
I guess I’d go with the Viking.
Bonus video:
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Beck, Hannity: Global Warming Called Off
What they are referring to is a paper by Mojib Latif in which he notes that the media often misrepresent global warming as a continuous, year by year increase in temperature. The truth, of course, is that annual temperature varies up and down but the baseline for this variation has been going continuously up.
Like a road going up a mountain. Often the road goes up and down and up and down cross the complex terrain of the mountain side. If, while driving up this hypothetical mountain, the road dips down for a moment, one does not say “Oh, we’re going home now. This whole driving up the mountain thing is over. We just dipped down. No more up. That’s the end of it.” and then turn around and drive home.
I mean, really, this is pretty freakin’ simple.
If you’d like to view Latif’s power point (as a PDF file) click here. Slide three is the one these morons are talking about.
Pawlenty…. YOU LIE!!!!
Female Monarch Butterflies on 30-year decline in eastern North America
Female monarchs in the eastern part of North America have declined in number over the last three decades, according to recent research.
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