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Fastest entry alive - 25 February 2008
Feb. 26th, 2008 02:02 amSo fast, in fact, that the captions for these may be rendered in the morning - or by you, the reader.
My recently-out-of-college self laughs at Rebel Yell's accounts of some students who have no idea what university is like.
My literary self enjoys Things I have Learned from Reading Children's and YA Books of Yesteryear (and sometimes of Year Now). Slightly longer but just as cool is an account of the success of a poetry stand, where the students involved learned to write poetry-on-demand, and quickly.
Just to mess with you, my literary self also provides Episode one of the adventures of Afghanisu-tan. Speaking of, there have been threats made against Afghan telecoms, telling them to go dark so that American troops can't track insurgents with the mobile phone signals. Isn’t that nice? Oh, and the reporter tried for blasphemy alleges his trial was bad. Well, in that particular country right now, that’s not surprising, but it is still deplorable. In a similar vein, Pakistan has blocked YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies being posted. And in Iraq, the local populace is still suffering effects from the invasion and subsequent surge.
Ah, and Iran says they've got more and newer centrifuges.
Cross-border deal permits Canada and U.S. troops to cross borders to respond to emergency. The left on Canada and the right in the U.S. are suspicious of the move. Now there’s some bedfellows. In other international news, South Korea has a new president, the other Castro is sworn in as president of Cuba.
I think Doug Wilson's column against universal health care plans in America hits all of the myths that the Mythbusting Canada Health Care articles were about. I’ve got an even better reason why there should be coverage for everyone - it's going to cost someone $15-25,000 dollars to get a cross bite corrected. That’s out-of-pocket expenses, because the person who needs it does not have health insurance, being self-employed and really unable to pay the premiums. With insurance, it would probably still be awful, might even still be this amount if the insurance company considered it nonessential or cosmetic surgery, which it is not. Nobody should have to worry about whether a needed medical procedure will break the bank and then some, or to postpone getting care or things fixed because they have to decide between care and food, or care and rent, or care and any other necessary expense.
Short and to the point on why telecoms should get the rack for helping the government spy on people without a warrant - Here Comes the Knife. There’s also Howard Zinn talking about why direct action is needed to get the government to do anything. The idea behind Sick of It Day, however, is not the way to go about doing things. Even Anonymous got up and went out protesting. It would be much better to do as the Mad, Mad Middle Class suggests and put a significant amount of tax burden on those who can afford to pay it.
Finally, in the politics of the American primary elections, Paul Greenberg chides Senator Clinton for not recognizing the power of words and the media for interfering too much in candidate debates. Regarding the lack of security at the Barack Obama rally in Texas, the Secret Service is trying to defend their decision, saying that there wasn't any security lapse. Last, but not least, Ralph Nader will once again be contesting for the Presidency.
A Florida baseball team, the Marlins, is looking to create a dance troupe somposed of overweight men. They’re going to try anything to get people to come see their baseball squad. Too bad they sold off the team that won the World Series.
In technology, Japan has launched an Internet-capable satellite, which should deliver some high-speed access to the island and the Southeast Asian region. Which will come in handy with the next wave of software designed to merge Internet, local computer, and smart devices, with information available on all three wherever one might be. The NextGen competition might have an idea on how to house that merging software with a wearable PC like Momenta. Last out of technology, good complainers perform a very important function in design refinement and customer service, so companies that have complainers shouldn't pass the buck, but take them to heart. Last in technology, something that makes me feel very claustrophobic - the grid of Nezahualcoyotl. All arranged in boxes, in rows, with no variance, packed in as tight as possible. Eeee.
And now, for material designed to raise some heat - starting with the United States government wants to find terrorists in World of Warcraft. I think they’ll have enough trouble figuring out who’s giving the quests.
Michelle Malkin provides a wonderful example of the truism that there are idiots on all parts of the ideological spectrum. (Think that’s an Angry White Man talking?) Additionally, take a tour of a science fair where the exhibits are about disproving Darwin, go through Georgia, where an entire school district is segregating its students by sex in an attempt to raise test scores and improve behavior (good luck), and end up with Austin Cline (of the General’s fame, no doubt) rebutting a supposed scientist's claims against evolution. The winner, however, is the account of a woman who gave birth while being hung on a sorcery accusation. I want to smack the people in Papua New Guinea that did the hanging. It’s almost always not a matter of sorcery when it’s an accusation of sorcery. I wonder what that family was being targeted for. And I want to know how they justified the idea of hanging someone who was pregnant with a child.
As a balancing point, and to prove the Chainsaw of Natural Selection is not meant for everyone, Rebel Yell details her falling-out with Christianity. She’s just one of the many Americans that are switching faiths every so often, some doing so continuously, others doing so once or twice at most. Finally, to make people cheer and think about the possibility of education being affordable again, Stanford University has waived tuition on anyone coming from a family that makes less than $100,000 a year, and will additionally waive room and board on anyone coming form a family making less than $60,000 a year. I think Stanford just got a lot more graduates. And possibly a lot more donors.
Last for tonight, 10 things Every Adult Should Know . Remarkably, the creation of a ring modulator (sound like a Dalek) did not make the list.
Okay. Bedtime. I’ve been up way too long as it is.
My recently-out-of-college self laughs at Rebel Yell's accounts of some students who have no idea what university is like.
My literary self enjoys Things I have Learned from Reading Children's and YA Books of Yesteryear (and sometimes of Year Now). Slightly longer but just as cool is an account of the success of a poetry stand, where the students involved learned to write poetry-on-demand, and quickly.
Just to mess with you, my literary self also provides Episode one of the adventures of Afghanisu-tan. Speaking of, there have been threats made against Afghan telecoms, telling them to go dark so that American troops can't track insurgents with the mobile phone signals. Isn’t that nice? Oh, and the reporter tried for blasphemy alleges his trial was bad. Well, in that particular country right now, that’s not surprising, but it is still deplorable. In a similar vein, Pakistan has blocked YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies being posted. And in Iraq, the local populace is still suffering effects from the invasion and subsequent surge.
Ah, and Iran says they've got more and newer centrifuges.
Cross-border deal permits Canada and U.S. troops to cross borders to respond to emergency. The left on Canada and the right in the U.S. are suspicious of the move. Now there’s some bedfellows. In other international news, South Korea has a new president, the other Castro is sworn in as president of Cuba.
I think Doug Wilson's column against universal health care plans in America hits all of the myths that the Mythbusting Canada Health Care articles were about. I’ve got an even better reason why there should be coverage for everyone - it's going to cost someone $15-25,000 dollars to get a cross bite corrected. That’s out-of-pocket expenses, because the person who needs it does not have health insurance, being self-employed and really unable to pay the premiums. With insurance, it would probably still be awful, might even still be this amount if the insurance company considered it nonessential or cosmetic surgery, which it is not. Nobody should have to worry about whether a needed medical procedure will break the bank and then some, or to postpone getting care or things fixed because they have to decide between care and food, or care and rent, or care and any other necessary expense.
Short and to the point on why telecoms should get the rack for helping the government spy on people without a warrant - Here Comes the Knife. There’s also Howard Zinn talking about why direct action is needed to get the government to do anything. The idea behind Sick of It Day, however, is not the way to go about doing things. Even Anonymous got up and went out protesting. It would be much better to do as the Mad, Mad Middle Class suggests and put a significant amount of tax burden on those who can afford to pay it.
Finally, in the politics of the American primary elections, Paul Greenberg chides Senator Clinton for not recognizing the power of words and the media for interfering too much in candidate debates. Regarding the lack of security at the Barack Obama rally in Texas, the Secret Service is trying to defend their decision, saying that there wasn't any security lapse. Last, but not least, Ralph Nader will once again be contesting for the Presidency.
A Florida baseball team, the Marlins, is looking to create a dance troupe somposed of overweight men. They’re going to try anything to get people to come see their baseball squad. Too bad they sold off the team that won the World Series.
In technology, Japan has launched an Internet-capable satellite, which should deliver some high-speed access to the island and the Southeast Asian region. Which will come in handy with the next wave of software designed to merge Internet, local computer, and smart devices, with information available on all three wherever one might be. The NextGen competition might have an idea on how to house that merging software with a wearable PC like Momenta. Last out of technology, good complainers perform a very important function in design refinement and customer service, so companies that have complainers shouldn't pass the buck, but take them to heart. Last in technology, something that makes me feel very claustrophobic - the grid of Nezahualcoyotl. All arranged in boxes, in rows, with no variance, packed in as tight as possible. Eeee.
And now, for material designed to raise some heat - starting with the United States government wants to find terrorists in World of Warcraft. I think they’ll have enough trouble figuring out who’s giving the quests.
Michelle Malkin provides a wonderful example of the truism that there are idiots on all parts of the ideological spectrum. (Think that’s an Angry White Man talking?) Additionally, take a tour of a science fair where the exhibits are about disproving Darwin, go through Georgia, where an entire school district is segregating its students by sex in an attempt to raise test scores and improve behavior (good luck), and end up with Austin Cline (of the General’s fame, no doubt) rebutting a supposed scientist's claims against evolution. The winner, however, is the account of a woman who gave birth while being hung on a sorcery accusation. I want to smack the people in Papua New Guinea that did the hanging. It’s almost always not a matter of sorcery when it’s an accusation of sorcery. I wonder what that family was being targeted for. And I want to know how they justified the idea of hanging someone who was pregnant with a child.
As a balancing point, and to prove the Chainsaw of Natural Selection is not meant for everyone, Rebel Yell details her falling-out with Christianity. She’s just one of the many Americans that are switching faiths every so often, some doing so continuously, others doing so once or twice at most. Finally, to make people cheer and think about the possibility of education being affordable again, Stanford University has waived tuition on anyone coming from a family that makes less than $100,000 a year, and will additionally waive room and board on anyone coming form a family making less than $60,000 a year. I think Stanford just got a lot more graduates. And possibly a lot more donors.
Last for tonight, 10 things Every Adult Should Know . Remarkably, the creation of a ring modulator (sound like a Dalek) did not make the list.
Okay. Bedtime. I’ve been up way too long as it is.
