Nature's Most Perfect Food!

Someone's watching you -- and it might be a good thing...

2011-09-11T08:23:00.001-06:00

from ArsTechnicaEthnic biases were found when the authors of an article in the American Economic Review compared baseball games with automated pitch monitoring systems vs those without.

"A black pitcher throwing a nonterminal pitch in the early innings of poorly attended games in a non-QuesTec ballpark gains over 6 percentage points by matching [the umpire's ethnicity] (41.4 versus 35.2 percent called strikes)."

They also found that pitchers would throw in ways that would take advantage of the bias... Hmmm... Who wouldn't?

The government wants to see if you'll be annoyed...

2011-06-25T09:29:00.002-06:00

It seems that it's expensive to synchronize the frequencies between different sectors of the national power grid. And it's only going to get worse as we add 'green', 'sustainable' technologies like wind.

So, why don't we just not do it, see if people really do depend on their wall clocks to be accurate and then make a decision (or not) later to turn the synching back on later.

He said there are alternatives if people have problems from the test: The federal government provides the official time by telephone and on the Interne

A(nother) geek's interpretation of the "boobquakes"

2010-05-01T08:30:00.003-06:00

Over at Ars Technica, they have an analysis of one woman's attempt to test the validity of a Muslim edict about women's modesty - or lack thereof.

Assumption #1: The earthquake arbiter has good aim. What good would an earthquake punishing us for indecency be if it couldn't a) be felt in a populated area, and b) kill someone? Therefore, we only count earthquakes of a magnitude of 5 or more that have a death toll of at least 1 person. If looks can kill, then they should.

Cutting to the chase:

It turned out that there were four earthquakes with a 5.0 or greater magnitude on Monday, which is an average number, and none of them were lethal. That is to say, the Boobquake claimed no lives. And since the pure chance of a deadly earthquake was low anyway, this style of analysis casts the effects of cleavage, exposed ankles, and elaborately coiffed hair on earthquakes as inconclusive at best. By these standards, the Boobquake was a disappointing scientific, as well as geological, failure.

[emphases added]

The National Debt...

2010-03-10T13:48:00.001-07:00

Ok Go!

2010-03-05T07:24:00.002-07:00

These guys have a lot of fun with their music and videos. This one took a long time to set up.

(ex)SNL Star talks and sings of Obama

2010-03-05T07:16:00.003-07:00

Victoria Jackson, who seems to be or have become a Christian, talks and sings at a Tea Party demonstration.

Ultimate hacking...

2010-02-09T12:24:00.001-07:00

not easy, but doable... Eh, Bert?

clipped from www.nzherald.co.nz

Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into using a very small needle.

how-to-use-your-friends-hobbies-to-your-advantage

2010-01-27T22:17:00.002-07:00

http://basicinstructions.squarespace.com/storage/2010-01-28-friends-hobbies.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1264645204864

It seems obvious, but...

2010-01-25T08:40:00.002-07:00

it's not what you might think.

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com

National Geographic Daily News

Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm, Bird Study Shows

When male great tits have brighter breasts, they also have more resilient sperm, a new study says.

Cartoon from Michael Ramirez

2010-01-22T13:27:00.001-07:00

via CFIF

clipped from cfif.org

What you can learn from a slime mold

2010-01-22T12:47:00.002-07:00

(And it's not something icky and scary like you'd encounter in Dungeons and Dragons. Also, note that they used the word "design." ;^)

clipped from esciencenews.com

Slime design mimics Tokyo's rail system

Image courtesy of Science/AAAS

"Some organisms grow in the form of an interconnected network as part of their normal foraging strategy to discover and exploit new resources," Tero writes in the report. "Physarum is a large, single-celled amoeboid organism that forages for patchily distributed food sources... [It] can find the shortest path through a maze or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length yet short average minimum distance between pairs of food sources, with a high degree of fault tolerance to accidental disconnection."

What's your password like?

2010-01-21T08:41:00.002-07:00

Apparently most people's aren't very good...

clipped from www.net-security.org

Analysis of 32 million breached passwords

Top 10:
1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123

Worst TV News "Story" Ever.

2010-01-19T14:27:00.000-07:00

What to do with the change that's accumulating on your dresser...

2010-01-18T09:57:00.002-07:00

In case you had a bit more than you might need for a rainy day, here's something to ponder.

clipped from www.wired.com

$5M Buys the Ride of Your Life

Craig Ferguson

2010-01-15T13:08:00.002-07:00

Sometimes when I'm at the gym, I have to take a few moments to listen to Craig Ferguson's monologue. Here's one that demonstrates that he's not the typical thoughtless standup comic:

Avatar Plot Fail or Observation Win?

2010-01-11T08:09:00.001-07:00

From failblog.org

see more Epic Fails

Craig Ferguson auditions for the role of James Bond

2010-01-08T10:36:00.003-07:00

LM@O! :^)

clipped from www.youtube.com

Evidence...

2010-01-07T13:46:00.004-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium

To see the video, click on "Leftists vs the facts" below.

TEDTalks: Charles Anderson Discovers Dragonflies that Cross Oceans : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

2010-01-07T12:53:00.002-07:00

16+ minutes of info followed by a little commercial from IBM detailing how they've implemented the eyes of Stockholm's Big Brother traffic taxing system in Stockholm, SWEDEN.

Vote while you still can!

2009-12-30T07:52:00.003-07:00

Choose the caption that best fits the image of Air Force One returning with President Obama from the Copenhagen climate conference... Wattsupwiththat.com

The Amazon Forest isn't going away anytime soon...

2009-12-16T10:05:00.003-07:00

From WUWT, we learn that Algore is making things up again or is getting more and more confused in his old age.

Check out where the deep purple color is ... Go ahead, I'll wait.

It's in the Amazon. The place most alarmists claim is most quickly going bubye...

And the Sahel, the southern edge of the Sahara Desert...

Canada, too. (Who knew we should worry?!?)

Australia is a mixed bag, but up 8%

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

2009-12-11T11:38:00.001-07:00

The thoughts of a female, ex-liberal on Liberalism's view and treatment of women in general and Sarah Palin in particular.

Something very interesting happened in Norway

2009-12-10T11:30:00.002-07:00

Spiralling lit clouds in the sky...

Story

Photo Gallery

Update: The coverup starts... They're saying it was caused my a failed Russian submarine missile launch -- NOT the start of the trans-dimensional invasion by the Red Lectroids of Planet 10 foretold in the The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!

Link1

Link2

Let your child debunk the "News" & AGW

2009-12-10T11:27:00.002-07:00

"So easy a 6th grader can do it."

HT: Wattsupwiththat.com

ClimateGate...

2009-12-04T14:33:00.003-07:00

From WattsUpWithThat - great quote:

"Science has gone to bed with Advocacy and both have had a very good time."

Speaking of zombies

2009-12-04T12:43:00.002-07:00

An interesting exposure of the thought process of an unbeliever.

Click the title link.

The hope for the Republican party

2009-12-04T12:42:00.000-07:00

Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP

From the Dilbert Blog

2009-11-09T10:55:00.000-07:00

Scott Adams's idea for a Halloween costume.

American Airlines...

2009-11-06T10:22:00.002-07:00

wants your business.

If you're "black."

If you're female.

If you're homosexual. AND they'll give you bonus points for it! (See the yellow "Rainbow Exclusives On AA.com" box.)

And, they aren't interested in making their website user experience better, either, and fired someone who was.

New from Kaspersky (Antivirus for Mac)

2009-11-05T08:59:00.001-07:00

Under the "Protection from a Range of Threats" tab:

30,000 new malware threats that emerge every day, so you don’t pass on problems to friends and colleagues using non-Mac computers.

The 2nd Amendment explained...

2009-11-04T11:17:00.001-07:00

by the Obama administration...

H/T RMGO

I like the Royals and Athletics, myself

2009-11-03T11:46:00.004-07:00

(shape of Major League Baseball fields)

Something funny from the Washington Times

2009-11-02T15:02:00.001-07:00

it is clear what President Obama meant when he said this would be the most "transparent administration in history." ... he was saying that his administration didn't feel much need to come up with plausible lies, they'd be fine using the transparent kind.[emphasis added]

An idea presented on WND.com

2009-11-02T14:50:00.000-07:00

Consider this simple amendment to the US Constitution:

He [the president] shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present [three-fourths of the state legislatures] concur. …

As one of my ex-bosses used to say...

2009-11-01T08:07:00.001-07:00

"Don't do math in public"

Or engineering, I'm guessing. ;^)

What to do with your tractor's exhaust...

2009-11-01T07:33:00.001-07:00

I know that you were worried about it, so...

Here it is:

Mr Linklater is literally ploughing ahead, injecting his tractor's fossil fuel exhaust fumes directly into the ground, where they enhance the biochemical interaction between plants and soil microbes.

The wisdom of Warren G. Harding

2009-10-27T10:07:00.001-06:00

“We will attempt intelligent and courageous deflation, and strike at government borrowing which enlarges the evil, and we will attack high cost of government with every energy and facility which attend Republican capacity...it will be an example to stimulate thrift and economy in private life.

“Let us call...for a nationwide drive against extravagance and luxury, to a recommittal to simplicity of living, to that prudent and normal plan of life which is the health of the republic.”

I told you so!

2009-10-16T20:12:00.004-06:00

Virtually all of the data-stealing malware in circulation today is built to attack Windows systems, and will simply fail to run on non-Windows computers.

Okay, so the author doesn't come right and say "Buy a Mac!," (while admitting that "we" don't have the same problems as Windows users) but it's a reasonable alternative to what he does conclude -- Do your online banking using a "Live CD."

You probably don't even know what that means, much less how to do it. So...

Buy a Mac!

;^)

How to explain things to someone who just doesn't get it.

2009-10-15T08:36:00.000-06:00

Profiles in Courage II

2009-10-14T08:57:00.002-06:00

An interesting article with some points on protecting our daughters, our country, and Hannah Giles (the star of the recent ACORN exposé videos

Not what I want to do with my friends on a Friday night...

2009-09-28T09:43:00.002-06:00

Windows 7? As a party theme? As the guest of honor?!?

I think...

NOT!

They just don't make 'em like they used to...

2009-09-28T09:42:00.000-06:00

How to exercise your 5th Amendment Right.

2009-09-24T14:58:00.002-06:00

The National Association for Gun Rights has an interesting bit on the 5th Amendment.

Boiled down: Don't talk to the police without your attorney.

The main link has the first part of the lecture.

The addendum, provided by a detective turned lawyer, is below:

Which world do you want to live in?

2009-09-23T13:03:00.007-06:00

Click the link above to better see the choices that children are being given...

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

2009-09-23T12:38:00.001-06:00

[The "doomsday" machine], he points out, was never a truly autonomous doomsday device. "If there are explosions and all communications are broken," he says, "then the people in this facility can—I would like to underline can—launch."

Obligatory remarks relating to Dr. Strangelove are included. :^)

As seen on the Glenn Beck Show

2009-09-23T11:09:00.003-06:00

Plan 9

2009-09-17T21:42:00.003-06:00

In honor of the worst film in history, someone is remaking it. :^)

Plan 9 Teaser Trailer from Darkstone Entertainment on Vimeo.

To learn more: Wikipedia's Plan 9 page.

Fables for Adults

2009-09-15T13:46:00.000-06:00

Thomas Sowell:

In a country where everything imaginable is bought and paid for on credit, why is it suddenly a national crisis if some people cannot pay cash up front for medical treatment?

Globalism vs. Americanism

2009-09-15T10:19:00.001-06:00

Here's some sense from Pat Buchanan (someone who's almost as anti-Israel as Jimmy Carter)

Where they [CHINA] have tilted the playing field against us, let us tilt it back again. Transnational companies are as amoral as sharks. What is needed is simply to cut their profits from moving factories and jobs abroad and increase their profits for bringing them back to the U.S.A.

Basic Instructions

2009-09-10T22:40:00.001-06:00

I laughed out loud. The last panel is the best. :^)

Ammunition shortage?

2009-09-10T00:21:00.001-06:00

It may be your own fault for actually wanting more.

Bikebubba BLOCKED!!

2009-09-02T10:10:00.001-06:00

BB, you've been blocked on my computer by my ContentBarrier software due to "Lingerie."

Hmmm... It's so intriguing! What are you up to?

"Mercy to the guilty...

2009-09-02T10:09:00.001-06:00

is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith

Insight from Thomas Sowell.

The Cloud Appreciation Society...

2009-09-01T23:14:00.002-06:00

I kid you not:

How sick was Ted Kennedy?

2009-08-31T09:55:00.002-06:00

He not only had brain cancer, but seems to have had a major malfunction of longstanding in that regard:

Ted Kennedy enjoyed sharing Chappaquiddick jokes with his close friends – including his biographer, Ed Klein.

Do you believe this?

Here's what Klein told National Public Radio last week in an interview with Katty Kay, filling in for host Diane Rehm: "He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'"

Klein said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick."

I know. I know. You don't believe me. You think I'm making this up. So, please, don't take my word for it, listen to it for yourself.

Rules for Radicals...

2009-08-27T14:42:00.001-06:00

from Saul Alinsky:

RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

What's the name of the way to "lose" an argument?

2009-08-27T07:25:00.003-06:00

Well, I think that Garry Trudeau did it:
(and Blogger downsized the pic)

The Owner of Whole Foods speaks:

2009-08-26T15:22:00.002-06:00

John Mackey:

... At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional health-care benefit dollars if they already have an "intrinsic right to health care"? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.

and, of course:

...Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.

;^)

MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness

2009-08-25T23:25:00.002-06:00

An interesting bit of history and information from PJTV

Check it out (when you have 13 minutes)

Just thinking

2009-07-17T17:38:00.002-06:00

(no link)

This is true: there aren't more even numbers than odd numbers.

This may be true: there are at least as many odd numbers as even numbers.

This may be true: there are 2 more odd numbers than even numbers.

More likely to be true: there is at least 1 more odd number than even numbers.

Yes, they all "evolve..."

2009-06-18T23:28:00.002-06:00

Here's a nice interactive graph of the ideological scores of the various Supreme Court (US) Justices.

Most of them do "evolve" into more liberal lines of thought, apparently, but I like where Clarence Thomas is headed. :^)

(And, I do believe that "evolution" is the right term for it, too. ;^)

Pepsi is anti-God

2009-06-02T12:57:00.001-06:00

Another good reason to drink Coca-Cola, instead!

:^)

Wolfram Alpha Knows All...

2009-05-15T23:33:00.003-06:00

Tells All.

Singing the praises of critical thinking...

2009-05-07T09:28:00.002-06:00

Why we do what we do and why others don't or do, too.

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that criticism, for lack of a better word, is good. Criticism is right. Criticism works. Criticism clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit…

The last line makes the read worthwhile. :^)

Top 10 AGW Myths...

2009-05-03T14:58:00.003-06:00

and links to refutations. (from an Aussie perspective)

10 TSUNAMIS AND OTHER DISASTERS ARE GETTING WORSE

9 OUR SNOW SEASONS ARE SHORTER

8 THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS DYING

7 CYCLONES ARE GETTING WORSE

6 THE SEAS ARE RISING

5 THE SEAS ARE GETTING HOTTER

4 OUR CITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN HOTTER

3 WE’VE NEVER HAD SUCH A BAD DROUGHT

2 THE POLAR CAPS ARE MELTING

1 THE WORLD IS WARMING

Typing in a moving rally car?

2009-05-01T08:59:00.000-06:00

iPhone vs Asus Netbook

I knew it!

2009-04-29T15:49:00.002-06:00

Led Zeppelin is good! Rap is bad...

For bugs. Crickets. Mormon crickets to be exact.

They don't like the rock-n-roll and avoid it.

The town is saved by the young punks! Sounds like a teen-horror movie finale. ;^)

Barefoot?

2009-04-21T10:28:00.002-06:00

I'm definitely thinking about it! :^)

Stronger, happier feet.

Cheaper, too!

In times like these...

2009-04-02T10:32:00.002-06:00

we may need to keep our eggs longer... From sale to sale, for instance.

The link refers to a study of egg preservation methods.

BTW, I'm out of pay, not necessarily out of work, just pay. They'll give me something like stock options for work until the company gets $s.

:^/

Surprise!

2009-03-31T12:08:00.000-06:00

Does it really matter...

2009-03-25T16:37:00.003-06:00

when you're about to die? (A matter of keeping things in perspective. :^)

http://xkcd.com/123/

Think locally, act globally!

2009-02-11T11:44:00.001-07:00

An active septuagenarian shows that Florida's climate change is all about the local land use.

The love of a good woman

2009-02-09T08:52:00.004-07:00

Loving your wife if Biblical. It also happens to be biological. This shouldn't be a surprise, but from the article just linked, you will probably be able to figure out what to do about it.

And, also in the news, the Muslims now have word from on high about how not to love your wife -- when she's misbehaving.

Let your wife know how much you love her today. Maybe on or before the 14th, too, but not specifically. ;^)

Trafficking

2009-01-30T11:46:00.001-07:00

Over at arstechnica.com, they have a some information from the Denver area papers that show that increasing yellow-light times decreases red-light violations -- and probably, therefore, safety.

Hmmmm... But it would probably drastically reduce the amount of $s that they get in "red-light camera" ticket payments.

:^/

I was concerned yesterday...

2009-01-29T14:31:00.002-07:00

when I read that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) contained mercury (Hg).

It may have been a lot of noise without substance. Debunked here.

Now I can suck down my Cokes in peace. Ahhhh!

(Or pecan pie... Or... ;^)

I like this cat's attitude...

2009-01-28T13:09:00.000-07:00

Snow falls in the United Arab Emirates

2009-01-25T21:35:00.000-07:00

Title says it all.

An important tip...

2009-01-13T13:35:00.001-07:00

on the preparation of Nature's Most Perfect Food!

Regarding dough preparation, fermentation, and cancer prevention.

Enjoy!

Linux not very popular...

2009-01-01T10:54:00.001-07:00

At least not for web browsing.

From the linked article:

[Apple's] iPhone also made significant inroads and claimed 0.44 percent versus 0.37 percent the previous month, and just 0.12 percent in December 2007. The handset still claims the title of the most popular non-desktop operating system and now has more than half the market share of Linux.

Keystone Cops are in the Border Patrol?

2008-12-31T11:31:00.001-07:00

As seen on the FAIL Blog

My apologies to Jared

2008-12-22T13:34:00.002-07:00

I had it in my mind that Jared (The Galleria of Jewelers) was founded by Jared Polis. It was not. Please see the Wikipedia entry. My apologies.

Jared Polis, the first openly homosexual man to be elected to Congress, is rather the founder of bluemountain.com and Proflowers.com. He sold the first for a mint before the DotBomb and the second in 2005.

Not bad... He sold the Proflowers brand (with some other similar things) for $477M when they only had $60M in the bank... (What do you think that he feels guilty for being a capitalist?)

Bah! The research for this post took the wind out of my sails. I had wanted to warn y'all (Bert) that your favorite "conservative" talk shows were promoting a liberal's money maker.

That may still be the case. *sigh* But I don't have the time to look into it.

The new Secretary of Education...

2008-12-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

From Chicago...

The guys at Freakonomics like him and have complimentary things to say...

The Economic Downturn?

2008-12-15T14:17:00.004-07:00

It's all Microsoft's fault!

Well, at least, it's partly their fault. Vista was such a flop that companies aren't upgrading to it in the rush that computer memory makers were counting on.

Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista OS. The OS requires more memory per PC than older OSs, and DRAM companies hoped Vista would be a blockbuster...

So. Buy more memory now. It's cheap and you'll be helping the "global economy."

I suggest DealRAM. Their site can get you to the right chips at the best prices. :^)

It's a sad state of affairs when...

2008-12-04T13:27:00.002-07:00

... Pravda says more about a news story than our MSM will.

"The only thing that matters is that he refuses to produce a valid Birth Certificate and instead spends thousands of dollars on attorneys and defies Federal lawsuits and State lawsuits asking him to produce one single piece of paper that most every citizen of every nation of the world has easy and rapid access to."

H/T to wnd.com

It pays to fight the entropy back!

2008-11-24T15:36:00.002-07:00

A study that shows a lot of interesting things.

E.g., a hole in a fence where there were signs stating, essentially, "Don't go through this hole" and "Don't attach bikes to the fence." Where there were bikes attached to the fence, ~80% of pedestrians would cut through the hole. When the bikes were unlocked, something like 25% cut through.

Is there disorder of some sort near a problem area in your life/home/work? Fix it and the problem may diminish.

Hmmm... I'm thinking I need to spend some time fighting back the entropy in my garage.

Video of the lost space tool bag...

2008-11-24T00:04:00.000-07:00

A modern day Tragedy of the Common(s) Teaspoon

2008-11-19T23:47:00.002-07:00

Interesting research into the lifetime of a teaspoon in an academic setting.

Inspired by desperation and a deep need for understanding of the callousness of fellow men.

Make sure to read into the "Discussion" section.

The upside of Somali piracy

2008-11-19T12:22:00.002-07:00

It offers jobs, self-esteem, food, commerce, and schools for the depressed country.

Me? I wanna figure out a way to guard the ships. Shoot back. Make $s.

This is why women shouldn't be allowed to lead space walks.

2008-11-19T12:09:00.002-07:00

Quote:

"Despite my little hiccup, or major hiccup [letting a large tool bag drift away], I think we did a good job out there," [Heidemarie] Stefanyshyn-Piper said after returning to the space station.

A co-worker just asked: What ever happened to people just saying, "I screwed up. I'm sorry." ?

So, Al-qaida (sic?) isn't really trying to kiss up...

2008-11-19T12:07:00.002-07:00

In a recent video, AQ's #2 guy calls Obama, Powell, and Condi "house slaves."

I guess that they don't respect B. Hussein O. very much... -- or is it just a ruse to throw us off? ;^)

Apple earnings up 124% last quarter

2008-10-23T10:49:00.002-06:00

and another $4B in the bank.

the link is to an analysis of Apple's financial position were it to be announced without using GAAP.

In this case, GAAP don't help investors or, apparently, analysts.

The editorial cartoons of Chuck Asay

2008-10-23T08:21:00.002-06:00

A Colorado treasure

A Company on the Rise

2008-10-22T09:17:00.002-06:00

It's been a while, but I can hardly stand it.

If you're looking for a company with a depressed stock price and large upward potential, read the title-linked article and consider AAPL.

AT&T was a recipient of some coat-tail riding...

:^)

This is my life...

2008-10-19T08:21:00.002-06:00

Please click the link for valuable instructions...

So, which Party is better for your stock portfolio?

2008-10-17T13:51:00.002-06:00

There seems to be a major kerfuffle in the web about which party being represented in the Oval Office best affects your stock investments...

The germ of it all was a post by the NYT... It seems to fit the definition of propaganda.

It was reworked a bit to make it more reasonable...

Finally, the co-founder of Mathematica makes a demo that allows you to factor several things into the mix: inflation, policy implementation lag, dividends, etc... The bottom line is:

It doesn’t matter who is in charge, the market is saying, in the long run it’s going to be OK.

Some sense from Ann Coulter...

2008-10-08T22:34:00.002-06:00

Regarding Senator Joe Biden's misstatements during his debate with Gov. Sarah Palin.

I think that she's right. Gov. Palin would be out in a heartbeat if she were as dense and wrong as he is.

For example, Biden said about Hezbollah: "When we kicked – along with France – we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon." Hezbollah was never kicked out of Lebanon.

He continued: "I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.'" This is madness – Lebanon is not a NATO country, nor had any NATO country been attacked by Lebanon.

...

In one especially hallucinatory answer, Biden authoritatively stated: "With Afghanistan, facts matter, Gwen. ... We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country."

According to the Congressional Research Service, since 9/11, we've spent $172 billion in Afghanistan and $653 billion in Iraq. The most money spent in Iraq came in 2008, when we have been spending less than $3 billion a week. So by Biden's calculations, we've spent only about $9 billion "on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country." There isn't even a "9" in $172 billion.

'Nuf said?

Alec Baldwin gets one right

2008-10-07T08:19:00.001-06:00

It's an 11 minute clip, but his germane comments are only 2 minutes into it.

Logos Bible software for the Mac

2008-10-01T21:30:00.003-06:00

Now in Beta 2!

If you have a current PC license for it, you can transfer your files and license to your Mac to try it out.

Mac version to be sold when beta testing is done.

Rumors of my demise...

2008-09-30T00:12:00.001-06:00

are greatly exaggerated.

Here's an interesting story for those of us who dream of flying.

I've been working a lot of long days.

You pretty much knew...

2008-08-08T23:20:00.002-06:00

...that it would happen eventually:

Vista security gutted by new web exploit

The malicious code not only negates the effectiveness of Vista's Address Space Layout Randomization and Data Execution Prevention technologies, which respectively randomize the location of some code in memory and prevent executing code from outside a certain memory space, but specifically abuses their behavior to ensure an attack gets through.

Update: A rebuttal (basically "Well, sure, but Vista's still better than XP.")