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sorry - s.trokes.org was just a clone of bl.ocks.org with syntax highlight support for clojure. I've updated the links to blocks and the examples are working again.

I don't think you read the article - the metals were the direct result of fertilizer which would not be allowed in organic farming. The catch is that the fertilizer (coal ash) was …

If you've ever wondered why newlines are sometimes CR and other times CR+LF, I think Gary is part of that answer.

Around 2012 there was an edit but the first two lines were accidently removed - both the and tags are now missing but later closed. This can be confirmed with internet archive. [1]…

That one dates from 4/2013. This one found via a recent merge-request is current to 9/2014. https://github.com/Sydcul/WhatsAPI/

Certainly you've heard a government official frame an issue he didn't like as "bad for the economy"? In the US, it's basically the first page in the playbook for both sides of the …

GDP is like measuring calories burned without any other context. Expenditure is a means, not an end. As engineers I think we are aware of the danger of optimizing around the wrong …

Article fails to mention: the eyes of the squid and octopus are very similar to ours in overall structure, but are not "wired backwards". So it seems that any explanation of why ba…

Some context for this code can be found here [1] in Lammers' great book. Gates specifically says that "not a line of code went out that I didn't look over" for the BASIC 6502 produ…

It's my understanding that - because of obscure constants in the git codebase - it's a bad idea to use dates before Sat, 03 Mar 1973 09:46:40 GMT because the usable git epoch is 19…

Note that in the US, protections are broad and being funny doesn't matter. Legal precedent clearly states that "First Amendment protections do not apply only to those who speak cle…

"There would be few fossil traces of these lost siblings of the Earth." Our moon is a pretty obvious reminder of Earth's lost sibling Theia. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/06/n…

Interesting editorial decision by Jeremy to submit this today and "The Fallacy of Tiny Modules" a few weeks ago. I recommend reading both. http://hueniverse.com/2014/05/30/the-fall…

Yes, this was on the radar then as Y2k was still fresh in everyone's memory. [1] "S1B coming" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/04/17/1915221/the-quickly-... [2] "Any Billennium Bu…

"Elsewhere in northern California, a major earthquake along the subduction zone between Cape Mendocino and Vancouver Island—a region known to geologists and seismologists as Cascad…