Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

LBK Post 047 Dealing with the Graphene Band Gap


And No, It has Nothing to Do with the Delay in Getting the Beatles on iTunes.



Check Out:  Damaging Graphene to 
Create a Band Gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential 
applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells

PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switching as needed in electronic devices is difficult."









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Sunday, November 21, 2010

LBK Post 046 A Bouquet of Letters For Algernon and the CIA Kryptos in the Times







Maybe It's Not The Rubicon Code Hidden in The NYT Crosswords, But You Can Work UP to That.



That Link IS at the Very Bottom




 This One Sits in Front of the CIA



And It Still Hasn't Been Cracked





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AMC/Rubicon NYT Crossword Link: 
http://blogs.amctv.com/rubicon/2010/08/rubicon-crossword-puzzle.php
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Just a little Sunday Times Fun
From Wingman.


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

LBK Post 045 How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

From http://www.howtogeek.com



How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

 Image by dmyhung



Afraid of the dreaded “p” word?  You’re not alone.  Partitions can get complicated, so here’s an explanation of what they are, how they’re used, and a simple template to use for your own Linux installation.






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LBK Post 044 Even A Little Light At Night Could Be Depressing





Light At Night Could Be Depressing


Exposure to even dim light at night is enough to cause physical changes in the brains of hamsters that may be associated with depression, a new study shows.

Researchers found that female Siberian hamsters exposed to dim light every night for eight weeks showed significant changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

This is the first time researchers have found that light at night, by itself, may be linked to changes in the hippocampus.









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Sunday, November 14, 2010

LBK Post 042 Open Kinect Says: Whose Your Linux Daddy Microsoft?




Kinect Hacker Hector Shows Redmond Who's Daddy




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CBS News Sunday Morning and
http://www.npr.org Reminds Us
That Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' Turns 40.




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Link:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130815184
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