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And back in order - 19 April 2007
Apr. 20th, 2007 12:51 amSo I disappeared for a bit - went away, had a job interview. Don’t know if I aced or blew it, but I’ll know in a couple weeks if I have to make decisions. Not giving up on other places, though, so there may or may not be good news other than the impending graduation soon.
However, being gone means that the usual news of the weird accumulates. So this will be a big, possibly bloated, link list. If you are at work, maybe make this entry Work Friendly and browse from there.
I’ll start with something that should help a diet... by not being able to eat it. Mix lime-flavoured gelatin, iceberg lettuce and green onions. Oh, and vinegar. This even has a recipe card to prove that someone thought this was good and worthy of mass-production. That’s the tip of the iceberg, though - some other diet foods will achieve a similar effect. Plus Weight Watcher's cards from 1974. And, from the same place (which seems to have quite a lot of things of... interest, let’s call it), meals men like, which would probably be made for the stag party. For the younger audience, here's a guide for teen-age living.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about librarians doing reference well away from the reference desk, using mobile technologies in the Google-enabled world. For those libraries that have access to electronic resources, the reference desk as an entry point to library work is one of many. For some, this means abandoning the idea of the reference desk, and possibly the idea of the reference librarian.
Oregon gets some props by passing a bill that gives homosexual couples the ability to form domestic partnerships, along with a bill that outlaws discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The Attorney General takes the stand today to try and explain why United States Attorneys were fired. Crooks and Liars have five key lines of questioning that they would like to see the Congress asking of the Attorney General, several of which result in uncomfortable problems or admissions of potential/actual wrongdoing and impropriety. Salon has a small bit about how fired attorneys may have had an unwillingness to pursue obscenity cases when they already had several cases, some that were probably more important, underway.
The Supreme Court was involved in a ruling today that upheld a 2003 law that banned several types of late-term abortion without exceptions for mother's health. With a ruling like this, many people look nervously or greedily toward the Roe v. Wade decision and wonder whether it will be challenged any time soon. (Read the Court's decision in this matter, Gonzales v. Carhart, here)
Non Sequitur has a reminder of what can happen when the extremists do win the government, regardless of which extreme they may be on.
Looking for a Wii? At Target, you can check to see if they have any in the back using the product scanner. If they happened to get some in the middle of the week, that is.
The shooting at Virginia Tech produced a plethora of responses. Some compared the death toll to the daily deaths in Iraq, and found it wrong that the world stops on American university students, but shrugs and plods on for Iraqis, others find it a sad indictment of our attention spans. Many are lining up to assign blame, saying it was because of removing Christian religious elements from classrooms (here's a couple more in religious blame-games), or because the students being attacked were cowards for not trying to subdue the shooter while others decry the accusations of cowardice with examples of heroism. The side with perhaps the most sense says regardless of your opinion on armed populaces, the shooting would have happened, and how tragedy always seems to result in "Follow my politics!" pandering. Or, as some suspect, "follow my religion" pandering.
There is good news, though - New Hampshire now permits civil unions. Admittedly, good news for a specific set of the populace, but good news.
After chatting and playing cards with her for several months, a gent proposed to his Internet crush four minutes after meeting her in person. She said yes.
Children are a treasure and an aggravation, often together. To do more with the treasure and less with the aggravation, look at ten ways we misunderstand children. My child development class this semester follows a lot of these ideas, showing that what is “developmentally appropriate” is not necessary what we expect of a child.
International corporations have new concerns to deal with, especially in doing business with China and other countries. Yahoo! is being sued over providing e-mail and Internet activity records to the Chinese government, which resulted in an arrest of the user for "incitement to subvert state power". So where does one draw the line, if at all, about releasing personal data?
This was going to happen at some point... sex dolls for dogs. For those time when legs aren’t around. In other places, now the robots are advertising sex shops.
Kongo Gumi, a family-owned business, closed up shop after 1,428 years in business in 2006. No, that’s not a typo - the family built Buddhist temples, and continued to do so until a housing bubble bursting brought the family down. Must have been a good tag-line - “In business since 527.” On the other spectrum, the Buddhist Geeks have another part from their Buddhadharma 2.0 series about how technology makes daily practice and teaching easier.
Blinkx, a San Francisco search engine company, has announced Blinkx Remote, designed ot search video clips by listening to them as well as scanning metadata around the video clip. Since it supposedly uses speech recognition technology to find material in the clips, I wonder if it’ll ever be able to accept voice clips over the Internet to do searches with.
For those looking for tiny, fairy-size sorts of things, have a look at tiny plaques. If you’re not paying attention to them, you might see one but not notice it. On the other end, if you don’t notice the rather large housecat in the corner, make sure it didn’t fool you by saying “I am a box.” If you need something more to get you going - try the Erisian Caffeine Ritual Bonanza.
To help with all those vision problems, perhaps the subtitle-displaying glasses will be of assistance. It would certainly help me try to understand the world around me. Either that, or I’ll just use the LolCat Builder to make it so that the world understand me.
However, being gone means that the usual news of the weird accumulates. So this will be a big, possibly bloated, link list. If you are at work, maybe make this entry Work Friendly and browse from there.
I’ll start with something that should help a diet... by not being able to eat it. Mix lime-flavoured gelatin, iceberg lettuce and green onions. Oh, and vinegar. This even has a recipe card to prove that someone thought this was good and worthy of mass-production. That’s the tip of the iceberg, though - some other diet foods will achieve a similar effect. Plus Weight Watcher's cards from 1974. And, from the same place (which seems to have quite a lot of things of... interest, let’s call it), meals men like, which would probably be made for the stag party. For the younger audience, here's a guide for teen-age living.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about librarians doing reference well away from the reference desk, using mobile technologies in the Google-enabled world. For those libraries that have access to electronic resources, the reference desk as an entry point to library work is one of many. For some, this means abandoning the idea of the reference desk, and possibly the idea of the reference librarian.
Oregon gets some props by passing a bill that gives homosexual couples the ability to form domestic partnerships, along with a bill that outlaws discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The Attorney General takes the stand today to try and explain why United States Attorneys were fired. Crooks and Liars have five key lines of questioning that they would like to see the Congress asking of the Attorney General, several of which result in uncomfortable problems or admissions of potential/actual wrongdoing and impropriety. Salon has a small bit about how fired attorneys may have had an unwillingness to pursue obscenity cases when they already had several cases, some that were probably more important, underway.
The Supreme Court was involved in a ruling today that upheld a 2003 law that banned several types of late-term abortion without exceptions for mother's health. With a ruling like this, many people look nervously or greedily toward the Roe v. Wade decision and wonder whether it will be challenged any time soon. (Read the Court's decision in this matter, Gonzales v. Carhart, here)
Non Sequitur has a reminder of what can happen when the extremists do win the government, regardless of which extreme they may be on.
Looking for a Wii? At Target, you can check to see if they have any in the back using the product scanner. If they happened to get some in the middle of the week, that is.
The shooting at Virginia Tech produced a plethora of responses. Some compared the death toll to the daily deaths in Iraq, and found it wrong that the world stops on American university students, but shrugs and plods on for Iraqis, others find it a sad indictment of our attention spans. Many are lining up to assign blame, saying it was because of removing Christian religious elements from classrooms (here's a couple more in religious blame-games), or because the students being attacked were cowards for not trying to subdue the shooter while others decry the accusations of cowardice with examples of heroism. The side with perhaps the most sense says regardless of your opinion on armed populaces, the shooting would have happened, and how tragedy always seems to result in "Follow my politics!" pandering. Or, as some suspect, "follow my religion" pandering.
There is good news, though - New Hampshire now permits civil unions. Admittedly, good news for a specific set of the populace, but good news.
After chatting and playing cards with her for several months, a gent proposed to his Internet crush four minutes after meeting her in person. She said yes.
Children are a treasure and an aggravation, often together. To do more with the treasure and less with the aggravation, look at ten ways we misunderstand children. My child development class this semester follows a lot of these ideas, showing that what is “developmentally appropriate” is not necessary what we expect of a child.
International corporations have new concerns to deal with, especially in doing business with China and other countries. Yahoo! is being sued over providing e-mail and Internet activity records to the Chinese government, which resulted in an arrest of the user for "incitement to subvert state power". So where does one draw the line, if at all, about releasing personal data?
This was going to happen at some point... sex dolls for dogs. For those time when legs aren’t around. In other places, now the robots are advertising sex shops.
Kongo Gumi, a family-owned business, closed up shop after 1,428 years in business in 2006. No, that’s not a typo - the family built Buddhist temples, and continued to do so until a housing bubble bursting brought the family down. Must have been a good tag-line - “In business since 527.” On the other spectrum, the Buddhist Geeks have another part from their Buddhadharma 2.0 series about how technology makes daily practice and teaching easier.
Blinkx, a San Francisco search engine company, has announced Blinkx Remote, designed ot search video clips by listening to them as well as scanning metadata around the video clip. Since it supposedly uses speech recognition technology to find material in the clips, I wonder if it’ll ever be able to accept voice clips over the Internet to do searches with.
For those looking for tiny, fairy-size sorts of things, have a look at tiny plaques. If you’re not paying attention to them, you might see one but not notice it. On the other end, if you don’t notice the rather large housecat in the corner, make sure it didn’t fool you by saying “I am a box.” If you need something more to get you going - try the Erisian Caffeine Ritual Bonanza.
To help with all those vision problems, perhaps the subtitle-displaying glasses will be of assistance. It would certainly help me try to understand the world around me. Either that, or I’ll just use the LolCat Builder to make it so that the world understand me.
