Periodic Dosage of Xah (三教九流十八班, 李杀)

Once upon a time there was Diary, and similar were logs, journals, travelog and such forth. In our info age, it is called blogs by inept computing geeks. To keep in sync with humanity of fashionable business and nomenclature novelty, mine is called Periodic Dosage. This periodic, is bent on to inform the informed, and educate the educated, of all things and social things and ethological things.

The Xah Offend Show

American Left: Forrest Gump Syndrome

Anonymous vs Google: the Origin of Anonymous

So You Want to Change the World?

Vancouver 2011 riot kissing couple

Kissing Couple in Riot

Humor: I Am Canadian (Video)

This is me juggling, 2002. Seems like yesterday. xah_juggle.mov

〈кошкина йога〉 (The Cat Yoga) (yourlight 2011-12-14)

Funny Video: the Cat Yoga

Killing Hope USA CIA Interventions map
〈US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II〉

Much updated: The Hawking WASP: Terrorism from USA American.

Noam Chomsky on Death of Osama Bin Laden

Regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden, Chomsky stated: “We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden's, and he is not a ‘suspect’ but uncontroversially the ‘decider’ who gave the orders to commit the ‘supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole’ (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, [and] the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.”[86]

From Noam Chomsky.

HIV world map game

AIDS/HIV World Map

“How To Get Ready For A Date” By JennaMarbles 2011-07-20

Humor: How to Prepare for a Date

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TamTamPamala on “Who Wrote Bible?”

Too funny: Who Wrote Bible?

Xah's Blogs Reminder

Updated again: Li Ao on Tibet and Dalai Lama.

“Asians in the Library - UCLA Girl going wild on Asians(SPOOF)” by AfricanoBoiShow.

Asians in UCLA (humor; video; racism; American)

My Life is Reading Encyclopedias

newly generated: Links to Wikipedia from XahLee.org.

6304 links to Wikipedia articles. About 1/4 of my wake time in my life is spent reading encyclopedias. See also:

gavial vs aligator vs crocodile
Left to right: Gavial, aligator, crocodile.

Differences Between Crocodile and Alligator

Xah's Edu Corner: Bits of American History: Civil War, KKK, and Emancipation:

In 1861, president Lincoln declared in his inauguration speech: “We must hang together or hang individually”. This statement angered the United Federation states, especially the Ku Klux Klan corporation, who has lobbied against The Bill of Rights for years. A bloody Civil War ensued. Other great powers at the time, Germany, United Empire, Japan, took a opportunistic watch-and-see stance.

In 1865, the Northern states demonstrated the power of Atomic Bomb from its Manhattan Project of New York, but the test target is strategically set in a remote location in California that's ostentatiously neither Northern or Southern territory. This action spoke louder than words. The Americans since understood Lincoln's declaration, and the civil war comes to an end. The Ku Klux Klan eventually got disbanded by Martin Lurther King.

Disney infinite copyright
A logo representing opposition to the CTEA, using a reference to its “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” pejorative denomination.

On Copyright and its Duration

What's the Difference Between England, Ireland, Scotland, Britain?

The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England.

From: The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England (and a whole lot more) By C G P Grey. @ Source blog.cgpgrey.com

Solar Power: Photovoltaic vs Solar Thermal

Been spending few hours geeking about solar power.

There are 2 primary types: photovoltaic and solar thermal. Photovoltaic is the solar panels we are familiar with. i.e. a flat panel that turns sun ray into electricity directly. (e.g. on your calculator or house roof)

Solar thermal is using reflection to direct sun ray into a focal point, which turns into heat, and in turn generates electricity (usually by steam turbine).

Being a efficiency nerd, my question is, which type is more efficient at massive scale?

There are power plants using either types.

Photovoltaic is rather boring looking. You just have lots of flat panels on the ground. The reflection type is more sci-fi. (e.g. death star).

There are varieties of the reflection design. e.g. reflection parabolic troughs, that focus light into a line. The line is typically a thin oil pipe. This type is still boring to look at. You just have lots trough-like structures on the ground. Quite ugly too. Then there's arrays of flat mirrors on the ground that focus light into a high tower. Then there's giant parabolic dish ones — like a death star — the most eye-catching. See:

My question about efficiency probably involves too many factors to be specified before one could say “which is more efficient”, but anyone got some comments?

Time Mag 2001-12-05 cover
Time Mag 2001-12-05 covers

Time Magazine Covers, USA vs World.

gencdo: Gentle Cherishing Doll

gencdo 2011-11-25
gencdo (meaning: gentle cherishing doll)

2 persons i like to thank.

Technology for Knowledge in Past Decades

Story: My Teen Years in Bagel Making

Photos of Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Why Are Scores in Video Games Mega Huge?.

9/11, and Human Animal's Love for Excitement

Internet is For Porn

Funny Video: Cat Teasing Dog

Xah Lee Blogs and What You Like to See?

Recently on g+ i asked where people know me from and what they like me to post on g+. (See: Source plus.google.com) One conversation leads to the fact that some people don't know i have webfeed of separate topics. So, here's a Reminder, and a poll.

If many subjects in my blog are not interesting to you, you can subscribe to individual topics, e.g. emacs only, programing only, math only, arts only, etc, at this page: Subscribe to XahLee.org Site Feed.

This blog at xahlee.blogspot.com is a aggregate of all, but except english vocabulary subject, which you can subscribe at wordy-english.blogspot.com.

Am also on g+, twitter, facebook. In these places, i post links to new articles, and selected old articles few times a day. Also random chat (mostly on g+).

If you like my articles, please retweet or tell friends. Thanks for helping.

Bill Maher: New Rules - Socialism

Bill Maher on American Socialism (video)

Internet Hipsters and Hipstering of our Age (essay)

Anonymous hack syrian site 20110807T2250 PST-s

Anonymous Hacked Syrian Military Site

Just regenerated Wikipedia link report for my website. Now at 5927 links to Wikipedia articles, spread among 1406 pages. See: Links to Wikipedia from XahLee.org.

Accosted by a Sexy Anonymous

Got this comment the other day:

Anonymous said:

Bro you are a god among. I love you. Meet me and we can have RL sexy times.

Xah Lee said:

r u a sexy anonymous?

Anonymous said:

Perhaps… Why don't you see for yourself? I will be at the corner of W El Camino and W El Monte Ave, at the McDonalds today at 4pm our time. Just so you can find me, I have blonde hair and blue eyes and am 5'11. I will be wearing a white halter top.

See comment at: http://wordy-english.blogspot.com/2011/07/english-writing-style-on-second.html

Am i axing a big opportunity?

Note she mentioned blue eyes and blonde hair. That's my achilles's heel as i've blogged here and there. And she pinpointed the locality, and she might be local. She must've read maybe alot bout me. But i don't know anything about her. Is this a joke? or is she a real fan?

what would you do?

To the sexy anonymous if you are reading this: yeah i still want sex. But what is it you want?

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