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Insert witty title here - 5-6 October 2009
Oct. 7th, 2009 11:19 amUp top, because, October and all, an attempt to carve the Trix Rabbit into a pumpkin based on a pattern provided on the cereal box.
And, of course, there are some times when the stereotype wins out - foot comfort is one of them.
The Dead Pool got Peg Mullen, noted antiwar activist, at 92 years.
Internationally, Warner Group has laid copyright to the music of Edwyn Collins, and thus prevented him from sharing it on his MySpace page, a situation that has Mr. Collins incensed, because he owns the copyright to his music.
No word yet from the American President on what to do about more soldiers for Afghanistan.
Speaking thereof, Mr. Obama has apparently refused to meet officially with the Dalai Lama, as a gesture toward keeping China happy (and not calling in the debts?)
Proving that alcohol bridges all sorts of divides, say hello to Taybeh, the sole brewery in the Palestinian territories.
The poor children of India are dying, far too many at a time, because the overstressed health care system can't provide skilled care to all of the children everywhere. The poor are too far away from medical services and it's too expensive for them to go anyway. Sounds like the plight of the poor here, too.
And that's without bombers attacking the UN offices, like in Pakistan, and without funds intended to help you fight terror ending up fighting your neighbors, also in Pakistan.
Finally, a conspiracy to oust the dollar as the reserve currency of choice? Sounds fishy, but the Independent thinks they've found one.
Domestically, the cost of two same-sex partners living together is significantly higher than that of a married heterosexual couple, costs which could be eliminated if the federal government legalized marriage between homosexuals.
Salon interviews Mr. Adam Smith, the man generally regarded as the founder of modern capitalist society, and what he says is pretty different than what a lot of the people who claim to be his descendants have to say.
Geekdad interviewed Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters, and gave them an idea for a myth to try. Their takeaway message - be curious! We can hope that they also absorb "Be safe" from the constant presence of things like blast shields, thick glass, and other preventative measures like experts who know how to blow things up properly.
To make you far more mad, The NYT tracks how all sorts of companies made great profit off a company that is now filing for bankruptcy protection after having been sold to four different companies in their recent history. Yep - investments and equity firms pay themselves enough to profit, while their acquisition fails, and will borrow money in the acquisition's name to profit themselves, and then sell the acquisition for yet more profit.
Not that private companies are the only people mucking about with numbers and drawing the baleful eye of the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department - the rewrite is in when Houston's mayor find data about traffic accidents he doesn't like - and some of those increases mysteriously become decreases. As the Rebel Yell points out, this is the kind of stuff that brings down Enron and makes people think poorly of the local government.
The leader of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is suing a chaplain to have him stop imprecatory prayers that he says are inciting others to commit hateful acts against him, including swastikas sprayed on his doors and feces thrown at his house. Always nice to know that there are "christians" praying for someone's ill-being, isn't it? In other religious matters, after wisely saying that cheerleaders could not display banners with Biblical passages on them agt school football events, supporters held a rally for the cheerleaders, as well as accusing the school of restricting religious freedom of students. Americans United for Separation of Church and State notes the relevatn Constitutional issues, but the General points out the real thing to pay attention to - those Godly football squads have miserable records.
Although all of this is apparently small change compared to the Conservative Bible Project, aiming to rewrite stories so as to be fully for free-market, religious conservatism, and excise stories and words that clearly have a liberal bias. One can track the progress so far at the Conservapedia Conservative Bible and then go forth and scholar the hell out of it as to how unbiblical it is. The General has his own suggestions for new verses in the new book. Just remember that all things that go into Conservapedia must meet the definition of truths according to the Conservapedists.
In better news, the case against the SubGenius mother appears to have been dismissed, and she can live a normal life (with the legal bills crushing, of course, and so long as she has no SubGenius materials ni her home). Good that the case is dropped, bad that she's forbidden from having Slack reading material at her fingertips.
And as a cap to the last administrator (although not the last we'll see or hear of him), then-governor Bush told reporters flat out, if elected, he would invade Iraq. And we're only learning about this now?
Opinions opens with Amanda Marcotte pointing out how much the Roman Polanski defenders sound like any other rape apologist, and how it looks a lot like other rape casese where there's a status difference, with defenders implying all sorts of bad things about the victim while trying to hold the attacker relatively blameless, and that's even with the attacker admitting to doing it.
Leslie Blanchard brings a call for the people to continue finding ways to beat the disaster capitalists and the system, including mainstream media outlets, they utilize.
More domestically, teh same statement, from different people, about how opening insurance competition across states and malpractice reform is sufficient to improve care in this world, instead of public options that (inevitably!) lead to less time with the doctor, substandard care, and less money paid all around.
The WSJ is also continuing to harp on the cash for clunkers program, claiming it didn't work for the reasons it promoted, and because the costs made the country poorer.
Mr. Hill beleives Mr. Moore is a whiner who feels enttitled to success, instead of having to work for it, and that anyone standing in his way or choosing not to promote him is evil, through sloppy arguments and the ironclad belief that "Real Americans" expect things to be difficult, and to have to work for things, and that the system is actually fair to everyone. Yes, including the person who works two or more minimum wage jobs that do not have insurance so they can be short a significant amount on their expenses every month. If they just worked another job, they'd be able to make ends meet. That's a perfectly fair system.
Last out, Mr. Crovitz in defense of the right to insult someone, both in person and on-line, without consequence or censorship, using the Danish Mohammed cartoons as an example of what needs to be protected against the mean ol' Islamic censors.
In technology, a program that will take a labeled sketch, even a very crude one, scour the internets, and stitch together the requested scene with images available on-line. It will even do some work to blend the pictures in with each other to complete the scene. Thus, all those of us who have no artistic talent may yet be able to see our work come to life.
Additionally, some very interesting data about compatibility probability, based on various factors self-selected by people using OkCupid.
The FTC rules that if you review things as a blogger, then you need to disclose whether or not you received the item as a gift or face a nice 11,000 USD fine, and you might not even be able to link to where to purchase the item in question, either.
Apple joins several other companies leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance against the need to do something about climate change, Explosive test for water on Luna set for Friday, your posture helps with your confidence, so sit up straight, a device intended to relieve loneliness that reacts to user touch and shaping,
Last out, PayPal users may want to browse with Firefox, at least until Microsoft gets around to fixing the nine week-old (and counting) vulnerability with their crypto API.
Last for tonight, some clever reworkings of older movies, generating new posters for the older films. And The Rachel Maddow Show promoted this incident, where a comrade of Stephen Fry gets the full-on mating ritual treatment, as their dirtiest Moment of Geek... so far. Thankfully, they haven't made it to some of the less intelligent inventions we've created.
And, of course, there are some times when the stereotype wins out - foot comfort is one of them.
The Dead Pool got Peg Mullen, noted antiwar activist, at 92 years.
Internationally, Warner Group has laid copyright to the music of Edwyn Collins, and thus prevented him from sharing it on his MySpace page, a situation that has Mr. Collins incensed, because he owns the copyright to his music.
No word yet from the American President on what to do about more soldiers for Afghanistan.
Speaking thereof, Mr. Obama has apparently refused to meet officially with the Dalai Lama, as a gesture toward keeping China happy (and not calling in the debts?)
Proving that alcohol bridges all sorts of divides, say hello to Taybeh, the sole brewery in the Palestinian territories.
The poor children of India are dying, far too many at a time, because the overstressed health care system can't provide skilled care to all of the children everywhere. The poor are too far away from medical services and it's too expensive for them to go anyway. Sounds like the plight of the poor here, too.
And that's without bombers attacking the UN offices, like in Pakistan, and without funds intended to help you fight terror ending up fighting your neighbors, also in Pakistan.
Finally, a conspiracy to oust the dollar as the reserve currency of choice? Sounds fishy, but the Independent thinks they've found one.
Domestically, the cost of two same-sex partners living together is significantly higher than that of a married heterosexual couple, costs which could be eliminated if the federal government legalized marriage between homosexuals.
Salon interviews Mr. Adam Smith, the man generally regarded as the founder of modern capitalist society, and what he says is pretty different than what a lot of the people who claim to be his descendants have to say.
Geekdad interviewed Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters, and gave them an idea for a myth to try. Their takeaway message - be curious! We can hope that they also absorb "Be safe" from the constant presence of things like blast shields, thick glass, and other preventative measures like experts who know how to blow things up properly.
To make you far more mad, The NYT tracks how all sorts of companies made great profit off a company that is now filing for bankruptcy protection after having been sold to four different companies in their recent history. Yep - investments and equity firms pay themselves enough to profit, while their acquisition fails, and will borrow money in the acquisition's name to profit themselves, and then sell the acquisition for yet more profit.
Not that private companies are the only people mucking about with numbers and drawing the baleful eye of the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department - the rewrite is in when Houston's mayor find data about traffic accidents he doesn't like - and some of those increases mysteriously become decreases. As the Rebel Yell points out, this is the kind of stuff that brings down Enron and makes people think poorly of the local government.
The leader of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is suing a chaplain to have him stop imprecatory prayers that he says are inciting others to commit hateful acts against him, including swastikas sprayed on his doors and feces thrown at his house. Always nice to know that there are "christians" praying for someone's ill-being, isn't it? In other religious matters, after wisely saying that cheerleaders could not display banners with Biblical passages on them agt school football events, supporters held a rally for the cheerleaders, as well as accusing the school of restricting religious freedom of students. Americans United for Separation of Church and State notes the relevatn Constitutional issues, but the General points out the real thing to pay attention to - those Godly football squads have miserable records.
Although all of this is apparently small change compared to the Conservative Bible Project, aiming to rewrite stories so as to be fully for free-market, religious conservatism, and excise stories and words that clearly have a liberal bias. One can track the progress so far at the Conservapedia Conservative Bible and then go forth and scholar the hell out of it as to how unbiblical it is. The General has his own suggestions for new verses in the new book. Just remember that all things that go into Conservapedia must meet the definition of truths according to the Conservapedists.
In better news, the case against the SubGenius mother appears to have been dismissed, and she can live a normal life (with the legal bills crushing, of course, and so long as she has no SubGenius materials ni her home). Good that the case is dropped, bad that she's forbidden from having Slack reading material at her fingertips.
And as a cap to the last administrator (although not the last we'll see or hear of him), then-governor Bush told reporters flat out, if elected, he would invade Iraq. And we're only learning about this now?
Opinions opens with Amanda Marcotte pointing out how much the Roman Polanski defenders sound like any other rape apologist, and how it looks a lot like other rape casese where there's a status difference, with defenders implying all sorts of bad things about the victim while trying to hold the attacker relatively blameless, and that's even with the attacker admitting to doing it.
Leslie Blanchard brings a call for the people to continue finding ways to beat the disaster capitalists and the system, including mainstream media outlets, they utilize.
More domestically, teh same statement, from different people, about how opening insurance competition across states and malpractice reform is sufficient to improve care in this world, instead of public options that (inevitably!) lead to less time with the doctor, substandard care, and less money paid all around.
The WSJ is also continuing to harp on the cash for clunkers program, claiming it didn't work for the reasons it promoted, and because the costs made the country poorer.
Mr. Hill beleives Mr. Moore is a whiner who feels enttitled to success, instead of having to work for it, and that anyone standing in his way or choosing not to promote him is evil, through sloppy arguments and the ironclad belief that "Real Americans" expect things to be difficult, and to have to work for things, and that the system is actually fair to everyone. Yes, including the person who works two or more minimum wage jobs that do not have insurance so they can be short a significant amount on their expenses every month. If they just worked another job, they'd be able to make ends meet. That's a perfectly fair system.
Last out, Mr. Crovitz in defense of the right to insult someone, both in person and on-line, without consequence or censorship, using the Danish Mohammed cartoons as an example of what needs to be protected against the mean ol' Islamic censors.
In technology, a program that will take a labeled sketch, even a very crude one, scour the internets, and stitch together the requested scene with images available on-line. It will even do some work to blend the pictures in with each other to complete the scene. Thus, all those of us who have no artistic talent may yet be able to see our work come to life.
Additionally, some very interesting data about compatibility probability, based on various factors self-selected by people using OkCupid.
The FTC rules that if you review things as a blogger, then you need to disclose whether or not you received the item as a gift or face a nice 11,000 USD fine, and you might not even be able to link to where to purchase the item in question, either.
Apple joins several other companies leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance against the need to do something about climate change, Explosive test for water on Luna set for Friday, your posture helps with your confidence, so sit up straight, a device intended to relieve loneliness that reacts to user touch and shaping,
Last out, PayPal users may want to browse with Firefox, at least until Microsoft gets around to fixing the nine week-old (and counting) vulnerability with their crypto API.
Last for tonight, some clever reworkings of older movies, generating new posters for the older films. And The Rachel Maddow Show promoted this incident, where a comrade of Stephen Fry gets the full-on mating ritual treatment, as their dirtiest Moment of Geek... so far. Thankfully, they haven't made it to some of the less intelligent inventions we've created.
