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Today was a long and trying today. Tomorrow asks me to do a few more things yet before I’m all done.
An earthquake in the South Pacific gave rise to a tsunami that thrashed the islands around. From the accounts, the time from quake to wave was too fast to run from.
A trend in the last few weeks seems to be last veterans dying - now the last World War I Navy veteran has perished.
Talk2Action takes a look under the hood of a decision by Time to run two cover stories - one in the United States, one internationally. The International version gets a story called “Talibanistan”, the United States version gets “Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public Schools”. What has Talk2Action up in arms, though, is while it looks innocent, the story has a lot of the talking points of the far religious right.
Good news for those who hate DRM. EMI is putting up its entire catalogue on iTunes, DRM-free. The higher-quality material will cost $1.29 a song, rather than $0.99, but I suspect a lot of people will pay 30 cents just so they don’t have to deal with the DRM.
Those in the gaming world that enjoyed rocking out to Guitar Hero and its sequel may keep an eye on Rock Band, a way for entire groups to meet on-line and play their parts. Which could lead to the formation of even more garage bands. Or some pretty interesting webcam-enabled music videos...
The ITT List has a short blurb about how the chocolate Jesus statue has lost the round, bu has won the fight in determining whether it will be considered a work of art by future generations - many of the things we consider art now caught significant flak when they were unveiled. If they survive the criticism, they eventually become appreciated as art.
A future direction suggested for the multitasking person - a boost to our fluid intelligence, through the use of filters that shuttle away non-important or proxy things, and that draw our attention with the important things, when needed. Filters, even learning filters, are already in place. The more they get used, the finer-tuned they get to a user’s preferences. So I think the difficulty with those things is that it might take a strong learning curve and a lot of rules to figure out all the situations where the filter would work properly.
Terry Jones (Of Monty Python fame) has commentary on the British soldiers kept in Iran. He's calling out the Iranians as uncivilized, because they don't beat, shock, hood, or torture their prisoners, like the United States, bastion of civilization, does.
Mr. Bush apologized for the conditions at the Walter Reed Hospital, after taking a tour of the facilities. It can be taken as sincere or as a photo-op, but it’s there, and apology for what happened. The President did not tour Building 18, where much of the storm was centered. Phase two is, of course, to actually fix the problem. That’s what we’ll be watching for.
Newt Gingrich planted his foot firmly in his mouth by calling for the end of bilingual education, the adoption of English as the official language of the U.S., and for the end of printing ballots in multiple languages. As the Slacktivist points out, if you want to believe that Gingrich is not being a prick by saying this, what he could be advocating for, like the release of Puerto Rico and much of the Southwest United States back to Mexico, doesn't necessarily sound any better. If Newt was planning on running for the presidency, maybe it’s brilliant that he says something this stupid this early on, so that we forget when it comes to an important time. Or maybe he’s just a giant prick.
The Democrats are pressing their advantage, intending to open up new fronts of contention between the Congress and the President, according to the Washington Post.
The X Prize Foundation, which awarded $10 million to SpaceShipOne for reaching the edge of space and returning to Earth safely first has announced a new contest. To win the prize, a car must have a fuel efficiency of more than 100 miles to the gallon, beat all the competitors in a race, and have a plan that can produce 10,000 of them at comparable costs to today's cars. The winner from that contest should get picked up by an any auto manufacturer that wants to inject some vitality into sales.
First Potter, now Gandalf. For King Lear, Sir Ian bareth all, following the stage directions to a tee. Or lack thereof, perhaps.
My professional sense cringes at both the situation described and how true it probably is across the country in an AlterNet article that describes public libraries as shelters for the homeless during the day, especially when it's cold. There are policies that can be enacted, but even so, if the shelter turns someone out in the morning and doesn’t want them back until the night, the public library is one of the few places that will theoretically take them and put up with them for a bit. Most likely longer than they should have to, but mental health care in this country is expensive, even more so for someone without insurance. Maybe the library needs to have a full-time social worker or psychotherapist on staff just to work these sorts of things out, if they get to be bad?
The last for tonight is art. Of the sort where those building castles are besieged by sea serpents. They could be playing catch-and-release, for all I know. There’s also urban area warning signs, and what happens when the Stormtroopers go to bed. From the body posture, I wonder how this guy can stare at himself in the mirror in the morning and not decide he’s going to do the Rebellion a favor and shoot Vader in the back of the head. If something mroe colorful is your state of mind, though, Color in Motion (which requires Flash) can certainly teach you a thing or two about color symbolism all over the world.
So, I’m going to bed. Tomorrow promises to be as fun-filled as today was, with potentially just as many things flying down the pipe at me. Funny how that when I thought I was getting ahead, several other things come back to smack me in the head. Truth be told, though, I should get out okay. I just have to keep doing stuff. If I let a lot of things pile up on me again, it’ll build inertia. Bad thing, that inertia.
An earthquake in the South Pacific gave rise to a tsunami that thrashed the islands around. From the accounts, the time from quake to wave was too fast to run from.
A trend in the last few weeks seems to be last veterans dying - now the last World War I Navy veteran has perished.
Talk2Action takes a look under the hood of a decision by Time to run two cover stories - one in the United States, one internationally. The International version gets a story called “Talibanistan”, the United States version gets “Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public Schools”. What has Talk2Action up in arms, though, is while it looks innocent, the story has a lot of the talking points of the far religious right.
Good news for those who hate DRM. EMI is putting up its entire catalogue on iTunes, DRM-free. The higher-quality material will cost $1.29 a song, rather than $0.99, but I suspect a lot of people will pay 30 cents just so they don’t have to deal with the DRM.
Those in the gaming world that enjoyed rocking out to Guitar Hero and its sequel may keep an eye on Rock Band, a way for entire groups to meet on-line and play their parts. Which could lead to the formation of even more garage bands. Or some pretty interesting webcam-enabled music videos...
The ITT List has a short blurb about how the chocolate Jesus statue has lost the round, bu has won the fight in determining whether it will be considered a work of art by future generations - many of the things we consider art now caught significant flak when they were unveiled. If they survive the criticism, they eventually become appreciated as art.
A future direction suggested for the multitasking person - a boost to our fluid intelligence, through the use of filters that shuttle away non-important or proxy things, and that draw our attention with the important things, when needed. Filters, even learning filters, are already in place. The more they get used, the finer-tuned they get to a user’s preferences. So I think the difficulty with those things is that it might take a strong learning curve and a lot of rules to figure out all the situations where the filter would work properly.
Terry Jones (Of Monty Python fame) has commentary on the British soldiers kept in Iran. He's calling out the Iranians as uncivilized, because they don't beat, shock, hood, or torture their prisoners, like the United States, bastion of civilization, does.
Mr. Bush apologized for the conditions at the Walter Reed Hospital, after taking a tour of the facilities. It can be taken as sincere or as a photo-op, but it’s there, and apology for what happened. The President did not tour Building 18, where much of the storm was centered. Phase two is, of course, to actually fix the problem. That’s what we’ll be watching for.
Newt Gingrich planted his foot firmly in his mouth by calling for the end of bilingual education, the adoption of English as the official language of the U.S., and for the end of printing ballots in multiple languages. As the Slacktivist points out, if you want to believe that Gingrich is not being a prick by saying this, what he could be advocating for, like the release of Puerto Rico and much of the Southwest United States back to Mexico, doesn't necessarily sound any better. If Newt was planning on running for the presidency, maybe it’s brilliant that he says something this stupid this early on, so that we forget when it comes to an important time. Or maybe he’s just a giant prick.
The Democrats are pressing their advantage, intending to open up new fronts of contention between the Congress and the President, according to the Washington Post.
The X Prize Foundation, which awarded $10 million to SpaceShipOne for reaching the edge of space and returning to Earth safely first has announced a new contest. To win the prize, a car must have a fuel efficiency of more than 100 miles to the gallon, beat all the competitors in a race, and have a plan that can produce 10,000 of them at comparable costs to today's cars. The winner from that contest should get picked up by an any auto manufacturer that wants to inject some vitality into sales.
First Potter, now Gandalf. For King Lear, Sir Ian bareth all, following the stage directions to a tee. Or lack thereof, perhaps.
My professional sense cringes at both the situation described and how true it probably is across the country in an AlterNet article that describes public libraries as shelters for the homeless during the day, especially when it's cold. There are policies that can be enacted, but even so, if the shelter turns someone out in the morning and doesn’t want them back until the night, the public library is one of the few places that will theoretically take them and put up with them for a bit. Most likely longer than they should have to, but mental health care in this country is expensive, even more so for someone without insurance. Maybe the library needs to have a full-time social worker or psychotherapist on staff just to work these sorts of things out, if they get to be bad?
The last for tonight is art. Of the sort where those building castles are besieged by sea serpents. They could be playing catch-and-release, for all I know. There’s also urban area warning signs, and what happens when the Stormtroopers go to bed. From the body posture, I wonder how this guy can stare at himself in the mirror in the morning and not decide he’s going to do the Rebellion a favor and shoot Vader in the back of the head. If something mroe colorful is your state of mind, though, Color in Motion (which requires Flash) can certainly teach you a thing or two about color symbolism all over the world.
So, I’m going to bed. Tomorrow promises to be as fun-filled as today was, with potentially just as many things flying down the pipe at me. Funny how that when I thought I was getting ahead, several other things come back to smack me in the head. Truth be told, though, I should get out okay. I just have to keep doing stuff. If I let a lot of things pile up on me again, it’ll build inertia. Bad thing, that inertia.
