Mid-week madness

[silveradept]

I won't say anything like "The Juggernaut Awakens" or anything like that, but these last few days, there's been a lot of buzz on the blogs and places with very interesting material. Keep it up, people - you're making it fun for me to try and weave together your various interesting things.

Leading off tonight, amenquohi, who shows that even the President doesn't get the new Medicare plan. Maybe it needs a rewrite.

From there, the dangers of solar energy. This sounds kind of familiar, but I think I need to replace a few words before it looks like something else I've seen recently. Even so, it's not enough to prevent this dark town from installing a giant mirror so that they can get mroe sunlight in the dark times. It's the opposite of Mr. Burns's plan for Springfield.

Some thoughts about vacation - a good debate as to whether you should or shouldn't bring your camera along.

And it's still really farking warm in my room. I dont' understand why there's such variance between my room and downstairs. Sitting downstairs to eat dinner tonight, I was vaguely chilled. Up here, it's like I'm in a sauna without the humidity and steam. I was a good boy, though - I stopped myself from trying to get everything done and played some games. Ended up getting my arse handed to me by an opponent, but I got out before things got too bad, which meant I got to keep the progress I'd made. Gonna be a while before I can finish that one - need lots of leveling up. Wish I could level myself up, so that reading and writing and assignment work took less time to complete, and game-playing could be more effective per hour, or something like that. Must think a bit about the Rabbit Hole Day experiment on Friday.

Last strike for tonight - Internet is a social tool. As the firend pointed out when she sent it to me, "Fire Hot, Water Wet, and Electricity -positively shocking! - more news at 11." Sounds like a successful career in journalism is ahead.

Comments

[shenalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, do I have some links for you today, Silver... or, well, for your -next- one after this. XD

http://www.starovertexas.com/family_security_and_protection_act.html <= Graphic image at the bottom. Gubernatoral candidate in Texas wants this law put in place there...

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060124_political_decisions.html <= Study on how politicians' brains literally block out reason on partisan issues, apparently.

Nice links tonight, BTW. =)

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

Yes, the "Dangers of solar energy" thing is on exactly the same lines as the joke warning about the dangers of "Dihydrogen Monoxide".

The problem is, it also reads a lot like some of the more left-field scams to get money out of the credulous public for "magnetic bioenergy realignment" and so on...

[fred-smith.livejournal.com]

The giant mirror thing is great, I hear the Russians wanted to launch mirrors inbto space with a similar purpose.

[silveradept]

I can believe it. Siberia's a really cold place, and much of Russia isn't much warmer or well-lit, especially in winter.

[silveradept]

Or used to try and convince someone that evolution is "only a theory".

[silveradept]

I try to put forward the stuff I think is interesting. I've been linked the political bias article elsewhere, too, and it's getting special treatment. (Have also seen the Texas act in various forms, and there's plenty of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot at that, too.)

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

On that subject:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4648598.stm

Yes, it appears that there are just as many useless Brits as Americans.

[silveradept]

At least they don't then try to forcibly inflict those beliefs on the education system.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Heh, I definately remember seeing that solar energy one somewhere before.

[eleme.livejournal.com]

I like that leveling yourself up comment, I've thought about that too! Too bad there isn't any probable way of doing that....just think how fast I could do the dishes if I was level 100! Or how fast I could read!

^.^

[silveradept]

Yep. Getting to the level cap would be interesting - although if it were a game like Disgaea, apparently we'd be leveling for a very long time before we got anywhere near their level cap.