News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Monday, February 28, 2011

GIMP, the poor man's photoshop

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It's a great program, it's free, runs under Windows, and it's fans claim it can do everything Adobe Photoshop can do. Trouble...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Sea Turtle mythology (navigation)

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An article in "Wired" claims that sea turtles navigate by sensing the earth's magnetic field (quite possible) and can sense lo...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Boeing wins the tanker contract

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I've posted on this before. The Air Force announced Boeing gets the tanker contract ($30 billion) and Airbus, aka EADS, looses. Let...

Obama and Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

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On a slow news day Obama knows how to get our attention. He declared a recent act of Congress, the Defense of Marriage Act, unconstitutiona...

The American Revolution

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It's a DVD I borrowed from the Franconia town library. It's good. It's a four DVD set of lectures on the revolution by Allen G...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

What's Boeing to do?

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Boeing's best selling product is the plain vanilla 737 single aisle jet liner. It's a good plane, it's been in production for a...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Language Drift

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I've noticed a change in the meaning of "pistol". Used to be, pistol meant the same as handgun, and came in two flavors, revo...
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