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Half-quick post - 20-22 March..ish
Mar. 23rd, 2009 01:24 pmUp top, an interview with asexual humans, who have no desire to mate with others of the species, in an article that sounds a cross between "Look at the freak show" and "We need to study this more" with possible "so we can cure it" undertones.
With that, how corporations and companies are manipulating search engine results through generation of self-referential networks and real-world events that change the rankings of pages and funnel it all pack to places where you get positive press instead of the negative press that is probably well-deserved.
Getting international, witch hunts still alive and well in Gambia, and Das Kapital is becoming a musical in China.
Log Cabin Republicans behave like battered pets, saying how much other Republicans like them when they put out statements saying how much they hate them.
Also, A proposed bill in the Texas State legislature would allow for the awarding of Master's degrees in creationism, by exempting non-profit institutions from the requirements of the State Science Board. The General is pleased with this development, as it would let him receive a degree for his program in Spartan wrestling, complete with oils.
Water rights in conjunction with oil operations means companies can divert lots of water from rivers to do their operations. What does this mean? It means that water is a competitive resource, and we can expect that competition to heat up and possibly get ugly as more water is spoken for.
Elsehwere in the country, A Connecticut house is being haunted with visitors after a movie explored a fictional haunting of the house. It's a movie, people. This is one of those places where you deploy Joel and Mike in an aggressive position.
However, sending students to cage fight in the locker room to resolve their differences is unacceptable. As is allowing poison gas to be used to kill wolves in Alaska.
The Slacktivist opens up the opinions with information about the immortality of the baby boom of 2007, based on how they, and the previous boom, are being treated as a constant drain on resources once they retire.
Mr. Spencer says that evanglicalism is about to suffer a hard crash, because evangelicals allied themselves with political parties and failed to impart to the younger generation their unique message, which means chruches will close, money will stop coming in, and secularism will win over the young'uns, onoez. But there's hope, because Christianity won't die that easily, and new methods will be born out of the old ones.
Mr. Cramer continues to pale in comparison to Mr. Stewart, essentially takingback what he said on the Daily Show in favor of spreading the blame away from himself and trying to cover it all up.
An in-depth look at how a newspaper company is killing the papers its trying to sell through poor business practices. The Slacktivist has a suggestion on how papers might improve their circulation - replacese "Business", which caters to investors, with "Work", which provides information to the plebes, like comparative salaries and benefits for various companies in the area. Y'know, the stuff that people actually want to know when trying to make employment decisions - or who to go after for now paying or giving enough in benefits.
In science and tech, Mayan cosmic monster drawing uncovered, light that can activate brain cells, possibly even as a disease treatment, making the robots able to bend steel with their artificial muscles, a jacket to make you feel more emotionally intimate with your movies, molecules that could help with quantum computing, and more about graphene as a wondermaterial.
This is part one, covering some stuff that I had up and ready, and then ran into the weekend on. Part two, with today's material, and more of what people consider actual news, to follow. Enjoy, for the moment, an honest conversation with a scammer.
With that, how corporations and companies are manipulating search engine results through generation of self-referential networks and real-world events that change the rankings of pages and funnel it all pack to places where you get positive press instead of the negative press that is probably well-deserved.
Getting international, witch hunts still alive and well in Gambia, and Das Kapital is becoming a musical in China.
Log Cabin Republicans behave like battered pets, saying how much other Republicans like them when they put out statements saying how much they hate them.
Also, A proposed bill in the Texas State legislature would allow for the awarding of Master's degrees in creationism, by exempting non-profit institutions from the requirements of the State Science Board. The General is pleased with this development, as it would let him receive a degree for his program in Spartan wrestling, complete with oils.
Water rights in conjunction with oil operations means companies can divert lots of water from rivers to do their operations. What does this mean? It means that water is a competitive resource, and we can expect that competition to heat up and possibly get ugly as more water is spoken for.
Elsehwere in the country, A Connecticut house is being haunted with visitors after a movie explored a fictional haunting of the house. It's a movie, people. This is one of those places where you deploy Joel and Mike in an aggressive position.
However, sending students to cage fight in the locker room to resolve their differences is unacceptable. As is allowing poison gas to be used to kill wolves in Alaska.
The Slacktivist opens up the opinions with information about the immortality of the baby boom of 2007, based on how they, and the previous boom, are being treated as a constant drain on resources once they retire.
Mr. Spencer says that evanglicalism is about to suffer a hard crash, because evangelicals allied themselves with political parties and failed to impart to the younger generation their unique message, which means chruches will close, money will stop coming in, and secularism will win over the young'uns, onoez. But there's hope, because Christianity won't die that easily, and new methods will be born out of the old ones.
Mr. Cramer continues to pale in comparison to Mr. Stewart, essentially takingback what he said on the Daily Show in favor of spreading the blame away from himself and trying to cover it all up.
An in-depth look at how a newspaper company is killing the papers its trying to sell through poor business practices. The Slacktivist has a suggestion on how papers might improve their circulation - replacese "Business", which caters to investors, with "Work", which provides information to the plebes, like comparative salaries and benefits for various companies in the area. Y'know, the stuff that people actually want to know when trying to make employment decisions - or who to go after for now paying or giving enough in benefits.
In science and tech, Mayan cosmic monster drawing uncovered, light that can activate brain cells, possibly even as a disease treatment, making the robots able to bend steel with their artificial muscles, a jacket to make you feel more emotionally intimate with your movies, molecules that could help with quantum computing, and more about graphene as a wondermaterial.
This is part one, covering some stuff that I had up and ready, and then ran into the weekend on. Part two, with today's material, and more of what people consider actual news, to follow. Enjoy, for the moment, an honest conversation with a scammer.
