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Waaaaark. - 07 March 2007
Mar. 8th, 2007 01:59 amAlways fun getting back to work. There’s always more work to be done. I suspect there will be office hours going on sometime soon, just to make sure I’m not going too far off the deep end. And probably just so that I can make things work like I want them to. That could be the real trick.
Anyway, going onward into the linkies, a United States mint error has created dollar coins without "In God We Trust" on them. Godless currency has apparently made its way into the money supply. I wonder how many people will see this and consider it some sort of atheist plot.
The Washington Post has an article about how the anonymity of the web can bring out the worst in people. The site describes a site much like a meaner, more aggressive, more personal cousin of Fark, and just as searchable by robots. I have no idea how much these things are affecting job prospects or employer reviews, but the stuff that’s being displayed (and by students of the law, nonetheless) makes you wonder just what’s beneath the surface. In something related, but not on the web, a criminal record follows you a long way. And as Billy Cottrell has found out, your reputation precedes you, even in prison.
Slate has a small article about how you could plausibly turn your own cellular phone into a spying device. Mind you, it’s highly illegal to actually do so, so there aren’t any plans being linked or anything really hinted at on how to go about things. Just that it’s there and could be done, if someone had the intent and the knowledge. It’ll still probably be the realm of spy movies for a while yet.
A child care snafu developed quickly when parents working at a leather goods maker were detained by immigration officials. About two-thirds of the employees were detained in the raid, but there could be some waiting while verification took place. Meanwhile, the children of these employees are stuck with caregivers while things happen.
Daniel Radcliffe in Equus opened on 6 March, and the New York Times says that Radcliffe sheds Hogwarts Harry quite well.
An apparently failed abortion has resulted in a lawsuit being filed. The article is light on the details of the matter, including what procedure was performed as the abortion. Additionally, the plantiff seems to have waited quite some time after the child that was supposed to be aborted was born to file the suit. Something doesn’t add up here.
Encouragement for my cooking ability (or lack thereof) - Even a comedy of errors can have a happy ending. Even with so many things going less-than-right, the dish turned out okay. So if it’s not perfect, it can still be delicious.
Wonder-drug marijuana? Maybe if we didn't already know about it. That’s the opinion of Lester Grinspoon, who thinks that all the experience and cultural baggage that accompanies marijuana is what’s causing all the fuss. If we had discovered it totally new, by now we’d be hailing it as some sort of wonder-drug and finding good ways to put it to use.
Insanity and mental illness increases caused by a virus or parasite? That’s the claim by E. Fuller Torrey, who thinks that there may be something more than just the environment that’s affecting out health. Rolling Stone puts up a column from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr about his work on trying to find the truth about mercury in the vaccines and if/what the government wanted to cover up.
Dick Cheney continues to flirt with the Grim Reaper, this time having a blood clot in his leg. There may be a few people rooting for that clot to travel somewhere more vital. If it happened, though, would that get people really thinking about an impeachment, because it would be Pelosi, not Cheney, taking command?
In the realm of increasing gas prices and decreasing supplies of fossil fuels, venture capitalism is funding quite a few attempts at biofuels. Not just an E85 sort of thing, but full-bore biologically-generated clean and green energy. That’s neat. Although, my inner tech geek wonders just what sort of purposes a counterintrusion device that fogs up the entire car could be put to besides stopping theft...
Going from biotech to neurotech - Technology Review gives their opinion of a helmet designed to read brain activity and facial movements, and turn those into controls or avatar actions. Mentally training oneself to be able to give correct commands, even in an FPS firefight, would be pretty impressive. Might make a good training tool for the military in that regard. Although, with an account like Joshua Key's, where he went on raids, rounding up men and never finding contraband or terrorist signs, there may not be many who want to sign on for this particular war anymore. Coupled with a feature in Salon about how women in the military fear their male counterparts as much as they do the outside world, if not more, recruitment may very well nosedive.
And from there into our current tech, Microsoft is working on technology designed to resolve ambiguities and another to share search results easily between people. So that they can get better results when Microsoft goes mining in health records to find better ways to do health management. Put together that way, it doesn’t look like it’s such a great improvement. Although maybe it will be able to find the total expenditure on intelligence for this year and years past. The Bush Administration certainly doesn't want it to be published.
Along with cracking down on college students using file-sharing networks, the recording industry has been putting the squeeze on Internet radio stations. Paradise Radio recounts why they have to pay additional fees to do a digital broadcast, and how much they have to pay to stay afloat. While larger radio companies, like Clear Channel, pay nothing, they allege. Got to love the lack of understanding of the Congresscritters, sometimes. Sometimes, even “stupid, stupid rat creatures” is too polite.
That last remark also potentially works in this case, too - McDonalds is testing out a 1/3 lb burger. Apparently, the 1/4 lb just wasn’t enough. At this particular point, though, if I want 1/3 lb of hamburger, I’m making the damn thing myself and taking all the responsibilities that go with it. Or I’m letting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greyweirdo make it, because he can cook far better than I can.
Anyway, going to bed. Am following advice and not thinking about certain things until tomorrow. May be not thinking about them for a little while past that, depending on the kind of help I can get in the Rails lab tomorrow. You never know what will appear.
Anyway, going onward into the linkies, a United States mint error has created dollar coins without "In God We Trust" on them. Godless currency has apparently made its way into the money supply. I wonder how many people will see this and consider it some sort of atheist plot.
The Washington Post has an article about how the anonymity of the web can bring out the worst in people. The site describes a site much like a meaner, more aggressive, more personal cousin of Fark, and just as searchable by robots. I have no idea how much these things are affecting job prospects or employer reviews, but the stuff that’s being displayed (and by students of the law, nonetheless) makes you wonder just what’s beneath the surface. In something related, but not on the web, a criminal record follows you a long way. And as Billy Cottrell has found out, your reputation precedes you, even in prison.
Slate has a small article about how you could plausibly turn your own cellular phone into a spying device. Mind you, it’s highly illegal to actually do so, so there aren’t any plans being linked or anything really hinted at on how to go about things. Just that it’s there and could be done, if someone had the intent and the knowledge. It’ll still probably be the realm of spy movies for a while yet.
A child care snafu developed quickly when parents working at a leather goods maker were detained by immigration officials. About two-thirds of the employees were detained in the raid, but there could be some waiting while verification took place. Meanwhile, the children of these employees are stuck with caregivers while things happen.
Daniel Radcliffe in Equus opened on 6 March, and the New York Times says that Radcliffe sheds Hogwarts Harry quite well.
An apparently failed abortion has resulted in a lawsuit being filed. The article is light on the details of the matter, including what procedure was performed as the abortion. Additionally, the plantiff seems to have waited quite some time after the child that was supposed to be aborted was born to file the suit. Something doesn’t add up here.
Encouragement for my cooking ability (or lack thereof) - Even a comedy of errors can have a happy ending. Even with so many things going less-than-right, the dish turned out okay. So if it’s not perfect, it can still be delicious.
Wonder-drug marijuana? Maybe if we didn't already know about it. That’s the opinion of Lester Grinspoon, who thinks that all the experience and cultural baggage that accompanies marijuana is what’s causing all the fuss. If we had discovered it totally new, by now we’d be hailing it as some sort of wonder-drug and finding good ways to put it to use.
Insanity and mental illness increases caused by a virus or parasite? That’s the claim by E. Fuller Torrey, who thinks that there may be something more than just the environment that’s affecting out health. Rolling Stone puts up a column from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr about his work on trying to find the truth about mercury in the vaccines and if/what the government wanted to cover up.
Dick Cheney continues to flirt with the Grim Reaper, this time having a blood clot in his leg. There may be a few people rooting for that clot to travel somewhere more vital. If it happened, though, would that get people really thinking about an impeachment, because it would be Pelosi, not Cheney, taking command?
In the realm of increasing gas prices and decreasing supplies of fossil fuels, venture capitalism is funding quite a few attempts at biofuels. Not just an E85 sort of thing, but full-bore biologically-generated clean and green energy. That’s neat. Although, my inner tech geek wonders just what sort of purposes a counterintrusion device that fogs up the entire car could be put to besides stopping theft...
Going from biotech to neurotech - Technology Review gives their opinion of a helmet designed to read brain activity and facial movements, and turn those into controls or avatar actions. Mentally training oneself to be able to give correct commands, even in an FPS firefight, would be pretty impressive. Might make a good training tool for the military in that regard. Although, with an account like Joshua Key's, where he went on raids, rounding up men and never finding contraband or terrorist signs, there may not be many who want to sign on for this particular war anymore. Coupled with a feature in Salon about how women in the military fear their male counterparts as much as they do the outside world, if not more, recruitment may very well nosedive.
And from there into our current tech, Microsoft is working on technology designed to resolve ambiguities and another to share search results easily between people. So that they can get better results when Microsoft goes mining in health records to find better ways to do health management. Put together that way, it doesn’t look like it’s such a great improvement. Although maybe it will be able to find the total expenditure on intelligence for this year and years past. The Bush Administration certainly doesn't want it to be published.
Along with cracking down on college students using file-sharing networks, the recording industry has been putting the squeeze on Internet radio stations. Paradise Radio recounts why they have to pay additional fees to do a digital broadcast, and how much they have to pay to stay afloat. While larger radio companies, like Clear Channel, pay nothing, they allege. Got to love the lack of understanding of the Congresscritters, sometimes. Sometimes, even “stupid, stupid rat creatures” is too polite.
That last remark also potentially works in this case, too - McDonalds is testing out a 1/3 lb burger. Apparently, the 1/4 lb just wasn’t enough. At this particular point, though, if I want 1/3 lb of hamburger, I’m making the damn thing myself and taking all the responsibilities that go with it. Or I’m letting
greyweirdo make it, because he can cook far better than I can.Anyway, going to bed. Am following advice and not thinking about certain things until tomorrow. May be not thinking about them for a little while past that, depending on the kind of help I can get in the Rails lab tomorrow. You never know what will appear.
