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Well, I went out looking for things to get for the convention, and came back empty-handed. I did, however, finally find a pair of shoes that I think I like - although I think that I’m either going to have to learn to walk correctly in these shoes or get used to them/break them in for some way that they may not be comfortable with. But I think I’ll be able to get used to them, and maybe learn a little bit better walking structure.
I think I’ll leave this particular object out front, for people to make of what they like from it - The Modesty Survey took statements and questions from “Christian” girls and posed them to “Christian” boys about the concept of modesty and their dress and actions. The results seem to read pretty normal - things like earrings or ankle-length skirts are considered modest, but most things that would let you see torso skin are not. And apparently, bending that shows any skin, or just bending with your back to a boy is a “stumbling block”. As is stretching, because the natural stretch pose accents a girl’s breasts.
More to the credit of places that would be likely to conduct such a thing as the Modesty Survey, Evangelical Christians are urging their congregants to adopt children. Sounds like they’re taking the idea of being pro-life a bit more seriously. Adoption and support of foster care systems from those who believe in the sanctity of all life, in both conception, gestation, and life after birth. Plus, as the article notes, if Christians are going to complain about people they consider unfit parents adopting, they should consider some adoption themselves.
Social engineering produces the following warning - A Trojan that wants you to activate your already-active copy of Windows. Ingenious, significantly because it takes advantage of how much consumers are afraid of being considered software pirates, even if they legitimately bought their software. A different story of breaking into computer systems is a teen who broke into AOL's computer systems, trying to get his account reactivated. What I would like to know (as would several others, I guess) is: Why would you want to go back to AOL?
Welcome to the People’s Republic of China, where several characters that look remarkably like copyrighted likenesses of Disney and other characters abound, but of course, they are not copyrighted likenesses of Disney and other companies’ characters. At least, that’s the official park line. Sounds like someone in red-and-green glasses wielding a piece of wood needs to inform someone there about the inability of the piece of wood to prevaricate.
Children were exposed to some material for people much older than they were when an accidental switch change broadcast hardcore pornography on the Disney channel in some areas of New Jersey. I note some of the quotes make it appear that those on the receiving end of the error believe that the switch was made in a deliberate manner. Unless there’s a Tyler Durden in the bunch, I think it was an accident. Keeping with the nudity theme, a record eighteen thousand people got naked to be photographed by Spencer Tunick.
Gary Brecher wants to answer the question that was posed by Senator Lindsay Graham after Harry Reid spoke of the war in Iraq being lost. Who won Iraq? has two big answers for Gary - Iran and the far east, like China and India. The losers is a bigger list.
Looking in on the other end of the political spectrum, Linda Chavez in the Washington Times says the Democrats have a role to play in Iraq - but they have to accept that we're there for the long run to be effective, and thus set up good benchmarks for when the troops should leave. Something that’s probably intended to be just as serious, but fails at the task are the fifty greatest conservative rock songs, apparently based on snippets of their lyrical content.
As part of the problems going on with regards to China-imported goods,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradhicks notes that cheap stuff, of the kind that can kill you, is being sent out of China without a second thought to safety. Or, in some cases, what the consequences of deliberately mislabeling something is. This is why the regulations are there. Or at least why regulations about purity and accuracy should be in place.
Trying to keep yourself healthy and well-fed is tougher to do when you have to cook on a budget, but according to Mark Erickson, the VP of continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America, says that having good tools and planning your meals will help you cook both cheaply and in a small amount of time. “Tools” includes water filtration systems, if the taste of bottled water is to your liking, and some good sharp knives. The planning part includes doing things like making enough chicken on Thursday that will then go into the chicken and vegetable soup on Saturday. (And if you like what you’re making, if you can afford to make enough for another meal that can then be reheated later, that’s not a bad idea, either.)
Possibly making a little fun of some pronunciation regarding a free on-line encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wickerpedia offers up several articles about the power of wicker as a building material (and several other things wicker-related). On the actual encyclopedic site, there is an article about a clone of an Invaders game called "Communist Mutants from Space". The things that are in that encyclopedic object are great and strange, indeed. And then, we find out, from the Telegraph, the image of Hitler's mustache we know so well was not his first choice. Because he needed to fit into a gas mask.
More rumors of a possibly cold fusion exercise. This one offers some proof of a replicable process. So we’ll wait to see if it can be replicated, and then to see whether it scales up to any sort of useful purpose in terms of size and power output.
Information Week has a small piece about the Indian government's aim to create laptop copmuters for $10. Nothing there about the specs and capabilities of such a machine, but since it’s being compared with One Laptop Per Child, I assume they’re aiming for a similar capability.
Earlier in the year, the Defense Department warned about possible radio transmission in Canadian coins. As it turns out, it was a poppy coin, perfectly harmless, but unfamiliar to the American contractors carrying them. False alarm. Maybe the settings on our paranoia meter are cranked a bit high?
Wired offers up the smarter emergency kit set, one for the house, one that fits in a backpack in case of the need to vacate the premises in a hurry.
Hitting the home stretch are the random collections, which offer up a lot of varied objects, some of the NSFW variety, so be careful. One of the offerings is metal art of natural objects, just to give you a sampling.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passes U.S. House - expected to be passed and signed. Inherited illnesses and genetic predispositions will not be acceptable causes to deny jobs or insurance to citizens.
The last thing for tonight, though, regards the bill that the House passed and the President has threatened to veto regarding adding gender, sexual orientation and gender identity to the hate-crimes law. Pam's House Blend asks "Who is it OK to Hate?", and reads a litany of many recent victims of crimes that would be covered under the new categories. Pam’s notes that even with current hate-crime laws, groups like the Ku Klux Klan are still able to operate, and still able to speak what they want regarding members of other races. Those who object to homosexuality won’t be muzzled or considered thoughtcriminals, but those who murder and do violence to others based on those objections should be prosecuted. Why should it be acceptable to call people faggots and beat them when calling someone a nigger or a Jew and beating them is a prosecutable offense?
I think I’ll leave this particular object out front, for people to make of what they like from it - The Modesty Survey took statements and questions from “Christian” girls and posed them to “Christian” boys about the concept of modesty and their dress and actions. The results seem to read pretty normal - things like earrings or ankle-length skirts are considered modest, but most things that would let you see torso skin are not. And apparently, bending that shows any skin, or just bending with your back to a boy is a “stumbling block”. As is stretching, because the natural stretch pose accents a girl’s breasts.
More to the credit of places that would be likely to conduct such a thing as the Modesty Survey, Evangelical Christians are urging their congregants to adopt children. Sounds like they’re taking the idea of being pro-life a bit more seriously. Adoption and support of foster care systems from those who believe in the sanctity of all life, in both conception, gestation, and life after birth. Plus, as the article notes, if Christians are going to complain about people they consider unfit parents adopting, they should consider some adoption themselves.
Social engineering produces the following warning - A Trojan that wants you to activate your already-active copy of Windows. Ingenious, significantly because it takes advantage of how much consumers are afraid of being considered software pirates, even if they legitimately bought their software. A different story of breaking into computer systems is a teen who broke into AOL's computer systems, trying to get his account reactivated. What I would like to know (as would several others, I guess) is: Why would you want to go back to AOL?
Welcome to the People’s Republic of China, where several characters that look remarkably like copyrighted likenesses of Disney and other characters abound, but of course, they are not copyrighted likenesses of Disney and other companies’ characters. At least, that’s the official park line. Sounds like someone in red-and-green glasses wielding a piece of wood needs to inform someone there about the inability of the piece of wood to prevaricate.
Children were exposed to some material for people much older than they were when an accidental switch change broadcast hardcore pornography on the Disney channel in some areas of New Jersey. I note some of the quotes make it appear that those on the receiving end of the error believe that the switch was made in a deliberate manner. Unless there’s a Tyler Durden in the bunch, I think it was an accident. Keeping with the nudity theme, a record eighteen thousand people got naked to be photographed by Spencer Tunick.
Gary Brecher wants to answer the question that was posed by Senator Lindsay Graham after Harry Reid spoke of the war in Iraq being lost. Who won Iraq? has two big answers for Gary - Iran and the far east, like China and India. The losers is a bigger list.
Looking in on the other end of the political spectrum, Linda Chavez in the Washington Times says the Democrats have a role to play in Iraq - but they have to accept that we're there for the long run to be effective, and thus set up good benchmarks for when the troops should leave. Something that’s probably intended to be just as serious, but fails at the task are the fifty greatest conservative rock songs, apparently based on snippets of their lyrical content.
As part of the problems going on with regards to China-imported goods,
bradhicks notes that cheap stuff, of the kind that can kill you, is being sent out of China without a second thought to safety. Or, in some cases, what the consequences of deliberately mislabeling something is. This is why the regulations are there. Or at least why regulations about purity and accuracy should be in place.Trying to keep yourself healthy and well-fed is tougher to do when you have to cook on a budget, but according to Mark Erickson, the VP of continuing education at the Culinary Institute of America, says that having good tools and planning your meals will help you cook both cheaply and in a small amount of time. “Tools” includes water filtration systems, if the taste of bottled water is to your liking, and some good sharp knives. The planning part includes doing things like making enough chicken on Thursday that will then go into the chicken and vegetable soup on Saturday. (And if you like what you’re making, if you can afford to make enough for another meal that can then be reheated later, that’s not a bad idea, either.)
Possibly making a little fun of some pronunciation regarding a free on-line encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wickerpedia offers up several articles about the power of wicker as a building material (and several other things wicker-related). On the actual encyclopedic site, there is an article about a clone of an Invaders game called "Communist Mutants from Space". The things that are in that encyclopedic object are great and strange, indeed. And then, we find out, from the Telegraph, the image of Hitler's mustache we know so well was not his first choice. Because he needed to fit into a gas mask.
More rumors of a possibly cold fusion exercise. This one offers some proof of a replicable process. So we’ll wait to see if it can be replicated, and then to see whether it scales up to any sort of useful purpose in terms of size and power output.
Information Week has a small piece about the Indian government's aim to create laptop copmuters for $10. Nothing there about the specs and capabilities of such a machine, but since it’s being compared with One Laptop Per Child, I assume they’re aiming for a similar capability.
Earlier in the year, the Defense Department warned about possible radio transmission in Canadian coins. As it turns out, it was a poppy coin, perfectly harmless, but unfamiliar to the American contractors carrying them. False alarm. Maybe the settings on our paranoia meter are cranked a bit high?
Wired offers up the smarter emergency kit set, one for the house, one that fits in a backpack in case of the need to vacate the premises in a hurry.
Hitting the home stretch are the random collections, which offer up a lot of varied objects, some of the NSFW variety, so be careful. One of the offerings is metal art of natural objects, just to give you a sampling.
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passes U.S. House - expected to be passed and signed. Inherited illnesses and genetic predispositions will not be acceptable causes to deny jobs or insurance to citizens.
The last thing for tonight, though, regards the bill that the House passed and the President has threatened to veto regarding adding gender, sexual orientation and gender identity to the hate-crimes law. Pam's House Blend asks "Who is it OK to Hate?", and reads a litany of many recent victims of crimes that would be covered under the new categories. Pam’s notes that even with current hate-crime laws, groups like the Ku Klux Klan are still able to operate, and still able to speak what they want regarding members of other races. Those who object to homosexuality won’t be muzzled or considered thoughtcriminals, but those who murder and do violence to others based on those objections should be prosecuted. Why should it be acceptable to call people faggots and beat them when calling someone a nigger or a Jew and beating them is a prosecutable offense?
