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I ran across this video today from fark.com and it has to be one of the more interesting videos I have seen in a long time. It’s an older video, at least two years old, so some of you may have seen it already.  The video is the story of Little Red Riding Hood and [...]

Continue Reading Cool Video for Stats Geeks or those with Short Attention Spans

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I’ve decided to break up the Jon’s Home Blog a bit, there’s too much of a mix of information on this site for it to index very well and be findable, and also for visitors to find related content on what they came here for. I have added two new domains http://www.jonslasers.com/ which contains the [...]

Continue Reading Some Changes to the Thaltech.com Website

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I just picked up on this, I’m a bit slow to things going on around me so I apologize. According to his claims, and he may be right, Paul Allen patented all the technologies currently used to deliver content to the world these days.  He has filed a lawsuit against (in alphabetical order) AOL, Apple, [...]

Continue Reading Paul Allen Sues the – WORLD – (!?)

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Okay, lately I’ve been getting this message in my comment spam dumpster “May I Sex Dating With You”? As follows are my thoughts:

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I’ve been looking for a long TOSLink optical audio cable but I notice most of the consumer stuff is max 15 feet long.  I really need a digital audio cable about 25 feet. I thought one of the major advantages of an optical audio cable was that optical could carry quite a long distance. Does [...]

Continue Reading Long Optical Audio Cables (and optical interfaces)

Tags: computer, Electronics, laser, science