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Neat stuff - 18 February 2007
Feb. 19th, 2007 02:20 amSaw Pan’s Labyrinth today in the theaters. It’s a good flick to see at less than full price. Not recommended for children, even though there are some in the movie. Also, movie is misnamed. Pan does not appear anywhere in said movie. Finally managed to pass the map in Disgaea that was giving me trouble. From which I suspect the next map will be even more of a pain in the butt to pass. Ah, well. Just goes to show that the puny Earthlings really can put up a fight when they feel like it.
Moving forward into the linky-linky columns, we’ll start with research into regeneration of bits of limbs. Nothing ready for prime time yet, but it might turn something out that will help regrow bits of appendages if they should meet premature detachment.
More recalls - contaminated chicken strips, this time. What’s with the outbreak of outbreaks here, people? I thought this was all supposed to be safe when it left the plant.
In the “where there’s a nice thing on the Internet, there’s a zillion spammers, squatters, and people looking to make a profit off it” department, the grace period for people registering domain names is routinely explioted to find out which domain names will be best for companies and advertisers to profit off of, as well as for spammers to rotate their addresses with. You take the bad with the good, I suppose, and maybe some of those companies get stuck a little bit when they have to pay a squatter for a domain name, but this seems a bit of an exploitation of what was originally intended to be an error-correction grace period.
Cocoa may be helpful for increasing brain blood flow. This is a specially-formulated cocoa, though, different than the average cocoa sequence. So exercise your habits carefully. Otherwise the calories may make other problems appear. (And I thought we’d covered this ground before, with chocolate being potentially good for migraines.)
After a couple of “Yay, libraries!” sort of posts, I would be remiss in giving you all the opinion that my profession is totally sweetness and light. Depending on where you are, and the community around you, your library may not always be the bastion of intellectual freedom and anti-censorship place that a lot of us want it to be. Observe: Newberry award-winning book has medically correct word in it, some libraries and librarians choose not to stock it. Over a single word, scrotum. I guess that the problem is more that the target audience of the book is too young for some. For them, such words like scrotum should not be appearing. For others, it’s a sign that we need to put younger blood into the profession and get some updated views going around.
In the “Differing interpretations” department, we find out that the rules against tossing cups filled with ice and/or liquid really do apply outside of my small little hometown, where a driver got two years in prison for chucking a cup onto the windshield of another driver after she felt she’d been cut off by the other driver. That’s apparently the mandatory minimum, two years. This is no doubt contributing even more to jail overcrowding. Speaking of overcrowded jails, when the city of Lafayette, Colorado, increased the potential maximum sentence for marijuana possession to one thousand dollars U.S. and a year in jail, an associate municipal judge resigned from his post. Even though he was personally against criminalization of marijuana, he was willing to enforce the state fine ($100 U.S. fine maximum), but the hike was too much for his ethical sensibilities. The commentators say there’s a much more dangerous drug to be worried about, and that this new increase is likely to contribute to more overcrowding, as well as ruining a life for because of a small amount of marijuana. The last part of this department’s offering is A gent who has sued IBM for $5 million U.S. because he was caught in an adult chat room at work. His defense is that he’s a sex and Internet addict, to take his mind of PTSD incurred in Vietnam, and that his surfing is protected behavior. I can’t say one way or another whether it’s true or false about the PTSD, but seriously, d00d, adult chat and that at work is going to get you fired.
A page that a lot of people in the world will likely back - Kiss My Ass, George, where there are at least one thousand pictures of people’s backsides, some with underclothes on, some not. Obviously, if being mooned by a thousand arses is not your cup of tea, then you may wish to avoid that site.
For those who want to make sure that their music collection lives on long after they’re gone, or in case of nuclear annihilation, there’s the IronDrive, a flash memory unit that claims to protect against even "nuclear effects" . For those with a serious archiving bent, this may be something to help you out with.
It’s confirmed! Elephants have the capacity to suffer from narcissism. Well, okay, they can recognize themselves in a mirror, but I like my interpretation better.
The Washington Post spent four months at the Walter Reed facility, intended for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wounded, and found that the soldiers are having a rough time of it, facing old buildings, bureaucratic nonsense, the suffering taking care of the suffering, and a nightmare of lost paperwork, incompatible communication methods, and people who don't know what they’re doing being placed in charge. In other War on Terror matters, the World Tribune says that the U.S. foreign aid budget to the Middle East will give more to those participating and useful to the War on Terror, and less to those not. Priorities indeed, yo.
Last bits for tonight - this following link is all pictures, but what it displays, a tiny city (world?) with lots of details, is worth more than a few laughs as well as wondering how much time it took to get things in that kind of detail and shape. Either way, really neat.
Mm, tired. Happy Lunar New Year to everyone, by the way. Whether for good or for ill, things have cycled back around to the animal of my sign. Not my element, mind you, which will take another thirty-six years, but if it brings me better fortune in this year than usual, then huzzah for the new lunar year. Xin Nian Kwai Le. Bring forth the red envelopes.
Moving forward into the linky-linky columns, we’ll start with research into regeneration of bits of limbs. Nothing ready for prime time yet, but it might turn something out that will help regrow bits of appendages if they should meet premature detachment.
More recalls - contaminated chicken strips, this time. What’s with the outbreak of outbreaks here, people? I thought this was all supposed to be safe when it left the plant.
In the “where there’s a nice thing on the Internet, there’s a zillion spammers, squatters, and people looking to make a profit off it” department, the grace period for people registering domain names is routinely explioted to find out which domain names will be best for companies and advertisers to profit off of, as well as for spammers to rotate their addresses with. You take the bad with the good, I suppose, and maybe some of those companies get stuck a little bit when they have to pay a squatter for a domain name, but this seems a bit of an exploitation of what was originally intended to be an error-correction grace period.
Cocoa may be helpful for increasing brain blood flow. This is a specially-formulated cocoa, though, different than the average cocoa sequence. So exercise your habits carefully. Otherwise the calories may make other problems appear. (And I thought we’d covered this ground before, with chocolate being potentially good for migraines.)
After a couple of “Yay, libraries!” sort of posts, I would be remiss in giving you all the opinion that my profession is totally sweetness and light. Depending on where you are, and the community around you, your library may not always be the bastion of intellectual freedom and anti-censorship place that a lot of us want it to be. Observe: Newberry award-winning book has medically correct word in it, some libraries and librarians choose not to stock it. Over a single word, scrotum. I guess that the problem is more that the target audience of the book is too young for some. For them, such words like scrotum should not be appearing. For others, it’s a sign that we need to put younger blood into the profession and get some updated views going around.
In the “Differing interpretations” department, we find out that the rules against tossing cups filled with ice and/or liquid really do apply outside of my small little hometown, where a driver got two years in prison for chucking a cup onto the windshield of another driver after she felt she’d been cut off by the other driver. That’s apparently the mandatory minimum, two years. This is no doubt contributing even more to jail overcrowding. Speaking of overcrowded jails, when the city of Lafayette, Colorado, increased the potential maximum sentence for marijuana possession to one thousand dollars U.S. and a year in jail, an associate municipal judge resigned from his post. Even though he was personally against criminalization of marijuana, he was willing to enforce the state fine ($100 U.S. fine maximum), but the hike was too much for his ethical sensibilities. The commentators say there’s a much more dangerous drug to be worried about, and that this new increase is likely to contribute to more overcrowding, as well as ruining a life for because of a small amount of marijuana. The last part of this department’s offering is A gent who has sued IBM for $5 million U.S. because he was caught in an adult chat room at work. His defense is that he’s a sex and Internet addict, to take his mind of PTSD incurred in Vietnam, and that his surfing is protected behavior. I can’t say one way or another whether it’s true or false about the PTSD, but seriously, d00d, adult chat and that at work is going to get you fired.
A page that a lot of people in the world will likely back - Kiss My Ass, George, where there are at least one thousand pictures of people’s backsides, some with underclothes on, some not. Obviously, if being mooned by a thousand arses is not your cup of tea, then you may wish to avoid that site.
For those who want to make sure that their music collection lives on long after they’re gone, or in case of nuclear annihilation, there’s the IronDrive, a flash memory unit that claims to protect against even "nuclear effects" . For those with a serious archiving bent, this may be something to help you out with.
It’s confirmed! Elephants have the capacity to suffer from narcissism. Well, okay, they can recognize themselves in a mirror, but I like my interpretation better.
The Washington Post spent four months at the Walter Reed facility, intended for those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wounded, and found that the soldiers are having a rough time of it, facing old buildings, bureaucratic nonsense, the suffering taking care of the suffering, and a nightmare of lost paperwork, incompatible communication methods, and people who don't know what they’re doing being placed in charge. In other War on Terror matters, the World Tribune says that the U.S. foreign aid budget to the Middle East will give more to those participating and useful to the War on Terror, and less to those not. Priorities indeed, yo.
Last bits for tonight - this following link is all pictures, but what it displays, a tiny city (world?) with lots of details, is worth more than a few laughs as well as wondering how much time it took to get things in that kind of detail and shape. Either way, really neat.
Mm, tired. Happy Lunar New Year to everyone, by the way. Whether for good or for ill, things have cycled back around to the animal of my sign. Not my element, mind you, which will take another thirty-six years, but if it brings me better fortune in this year than usual, then huzzah for the new lunar year. Xin Nian Kwai Le. Bring forth the red envelopes.
