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Midweek Madness
Aug. 10th, 2006 03:29 amSo, so much to do and so little time. Helped a housemate celebrate 21 today. That's why this is so late. Also, got a nice compliment at work today - was told by a parent that she liked the way I told stories. That's a squee-worthy compliment, and it tells me that the audience liked things as well as the storytellers. Squee!
Tag. You're it, Ozy and Millie style. Also a fairly good demonstration of how my brain works.
61 years ago, the United States committed an unforgivable act by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The echoes of that act are still felt in today's world, and will likely be felt for many years to come. What we should be remembering is that it's also the day James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens wins his fourth gold medal as the lead leg in the US's 4x400 relay. (Which, incidentally, probably infuriated Adolf Hitler.)
Yet another really good reason to leave AOL - it released significant quantities of user-specific search data. AOL has since realized what a colossal fuck-up it is and issued an apology for it, but the truth remains - while there's no personally identifiable data attached to the searcher, the searches themselves might produce some interesting connections and point out precisely who a particular user is. Someone might have all their vices, legal or otherwise, exposed by someone with the deductive ability to put two and two together.
The NSA is running out of power. Apparently, modern tech can't be supported by an aged infrastructure. Who knew? That said, SOS fully supports the suggestions that the NSA is making, as reported by this plusgood blogger. Remember, Freedom is Slavery.
Speaking of literary allusions, well, let's just say someone had a Dickens of a time finding out where Rumsfeld was optimistic about Iraq.
Please don't let the kids grow up to believe firmly in strange ideas. A refutation of some of the silliest ideas put to comic book form. And no, this isn't Jack Chick (although he can burn in a hell of his own making, too.) It's Pinkoski. Charles Darwin and your chainsaw of evolution, would you save us, please?
Thoughts on sex, it's "immorality", and why educating the populace will do more than banning homosexual marriage.
Otherwise religiously-related thoughts, Is Speaking in tongues really language? Something I found more interesting was that there are certain brain changes that happen to people who are tongue-speakers. Combine this with the research into mystic-experience mushrooms, and as I told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thewayne, we could get all the religious experiences at a fraction of the cost of tithes.
Group sues the EPA over beach pollutions. The EPA missed a deadline to update its practices, and now someone's getting after them for not doing so and for leaving beaches in unhealthy states.
Followup news on the European masturbate-a-thon. The stamina of some of those people is, well, otherworldly.
Some official agitprop from 23AE. Although official agitprop sounds like a bit of a contradiction, doesn't it? Eh, it's all part of the mindfuck anyway.
Lastly, The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. This is what you can do given time, inclination, and a computer that can render it.
Tag. You're it, Ozy and Millie style. Also a fairly good demonstration of how my brain works.
61 years ago, the United States committed an unforgivable act by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The echoes of that act are still felt in today's world, and will likely be felt for many years to come. What we should be remembering is that it's also the day James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens wins his fourth gold medal as the lead leg in the US's 4x400 relay. (Which, incidentally, probably infuriated Adolf Hitler.)
Yet another really good reason to leave AOL - it released significant quantities of user-specific search data. AOL has since realized what a colossal fuck-up it is and issued an apology for it, but the truth remains - while there's no personally identifiable data attached to the searcher, the searches themselves might produce some interesting connections and point out precisely who a particular user is. Someone might have all their vices, legal or otherwise, exposed by someone with the deductive ability to put two and two together.
The NSA is running out of power. Apparently, modern tech can't be supported by an aged infrastructure. Who knew? That said, SOS fully supports the suggestions that the NSA is making, as reported by this plusgood blogger. Remember, Freedom is Slavery.
Speaking of literary allusions, well, let's just say someone had a Dickens of a time finding out where Rumsfeld was optimistic about Iraq.
Please don't let the kids grow up to believe firmly in strange ideas. A refutation of some of the silliest ideas put to comic book form. And no, this isn't Jack Chick (although he can burn in a hell of his own making, too.) It's Pinkoski. Charles Darwin and your chainsaw of evolution, would you save us, please?
Thoughts on sex, it's "immorality", and why educating the populace will do more than banning homosexual marriage.
Otherwise religiously-related thoughts, Is Speaking in tongues really language? Something I found more interesting was that there are certain brain changes that happen to people who are tongue-speakers. Combine this with the research into mystic-experience mushrooms, and as I told
thewayne, we could get all the religious experiences at a fraction of the cost of tithes. Group sues the EPA over beach pollutions. The EPA missed a deadline to update its practices, and now someone's getting after them for not doing so and for leaving beaches in unhealthy states.
Followup news on the European masturbate-a-thon. The stamina of some of those people is, well, otherworldly.
Some official agitprop from 23AE. Although official agitprop sounds like a bit of a contradiction, doesn't it? Eh, it's all part of the mindfuck anyway.
Lastly, The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. This is what you can do given time, inclination, and a computer that can render it.
