Robomarkov's raw news

http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/

--> Notices by forest service for Coronado National Forest

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/03/us/AP-US-Child-Tasered.html?_r=1

--> Another kid gets tasered. Perhaps a lot of this could be prevented if parents would stop trying to be friends and buddies and start acting like... parents. Corporal punishment works if applied at an early life stage. Establish parental authority and then other punishment options become meaningful.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579038,00.html

--> Desperate times call for desperate actions... and some charitable mercy. It is sad that most times things don't work out this way. How many crooks faced with their eminent demise won't give a sob story? How many panhandlers are suddenly out of gas? At the same spot every day? There are many many many resources out there for people in need, but people don't seek them out. They choose the wrong path because it is "easy".

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/12/03/coke-tries-facial-recognition-on-facebook/

--> I think I'll upload a picture of a Klingon.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

--> Productivity is up. Productivity is output divided by hours worked. So, mathematically, as hours worked approaches zero, then productivity approaches infinity. Therefore, all employees should be fired! This theory does seem to coincide with the INCREASE in unemployed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9237798

--> Global warming data to be re-examined as UK university conducts investigation. Perhaps some doctoral thesis will be invalidated?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grllk_nt63q2NPIotyM9xpL4hwkwD9CBTA0O0

--> No same-sex marriage for New York.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2673

--> Malware/Virus infected Windows-based PCs can take down a network, even if it is using Linux-based servers. The server won't get infected but the network gets overloaded and shuts down. Why are we all still using Windows and not Linux or Mac?

http://www.nuxified.org/blog/again-linux-not-os

--> A very interesting argument. Linux is not an OS. Linux is a kernel. The OS is the framework built around the kernel. That means that Ubuntu is an OS. Slackware is an OS. OpenSUSE is an OS. Red Hat Fedora is an OS. Mandriva is an OS. Linux is NOT an OS. But what use is the framework without the kernel? Isn't the OS the software interface to the hardware? Isn't the OS the software that manages the tasks, memory usage, and communication stacks? But I think that in terms of marketing, it is more true to say that the distributions are an OS, and not the kernel. You are bound to have problems trying to install a Debian packaged software on Fedora due to dependency differences. Technically, it isn't the kernel at fault, but how the framework interfaces to it. However, this won't be understood by most people. They'll just see the incompatibility. Thus the distributions should be conceptually treated like separate OS's.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/03/0616246

--> Brain-controlled game controller.

http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/

--> Build your own EEG

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/03/0247228/FCC-Lets-Radar-Company-See-Through-Walls

--> New radar allows police to peer through walls. No chance for abuse here, I am sure. The government NEVER would misuse such technology.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/03/140218/Windows-7-Under-Fire-For-Patent-Infringement

--> Microsoft being sued because Windows 7 violates a patent

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578509,00.html

--> Five things to do to keep your relationship exciting.

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating_200/213_why-do-single-women-like-taken-men.html

http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_150/167_dating_advice.html

http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_300/358_love_tip.html

http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_200/227_dating_advice.html

--> Above links not viewable from work but looked interesting

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/03/h1n1.kids.dangers/index.html

--> Rapid flu tests are often failing to detect H1N1 flu about 50% of the time. Five wanring signs that may require hospitalization.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579029,00.html

--> Incomplete drug and illegal smuggling tunnel found on US-Mexico border.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/03/shishmaref.alaska.climate.change/index.html

--> Time. To. Move. Adapt or die. Don't be a dinosaur. The world is a dynamic place and people need to learn to dance to the rhythm. Seriously... How intact is their pristine native culture? They were forced to adapt before and adjusted. It is time to do it again.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meditation-on-demand-nov09

--> Meditation is good for you.

http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate

--> How to meditate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAtNILh6uY

--> A world without America

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/03/another-global-disea.html

--> Another global disease is on the short list for permanent eradication - Rinderpest. In fact, it may already be gone. Wait for the formal announcement in 1.5 years.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/02/from-the-toilet-to-t.html

--> You are drinking recycled water.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18225-both-of-nasas-mars-orbiters-are-down-for-the-count.html

--> Mars has gone radio silent. The orbiters are down. Little green men with slingshots?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18224-longlived-titan-lakes-are-boon-to-life.html

--> Titan... Moon of 1000 lakes. Liquid methane lakes, that is. Sounds like we found our solution to Peak Oil.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18231-antarctica-was-climate-refuge-during-great-extinction.html

--> Antarctica should have some incredible fossil finds - herbivores, trees, ... now if we could just get rid of all that ice... Hmmm... Animals migrate when the weather is no longer favorable? Really? You mean Nature can take care of itself?!?!

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/12/03/warren-buffett-on-sex.aspx

--> Sex and investing in the stock market have a lot of similarities... besides getting screwed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579070,00.html

--> Girl who sneezes 12,000 times a day officially diagnosed with having PANDAS.

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-world-press-collective-delusion-boils-over-respect-us-dammit/

--> World press blaming their failings on Google.

http://defensetech.org/2009/12/02/terrorists-within-our-borders/

--> Leave it to Defense Tech to pull out the juicy bits of Obama's speech. People are afraid of terrorists coming over here. Fact: they already are. The Left wants to restrict options on the government to detect them and are driven by political correctness. How politically correct are dead Americans killed in their own country while ... say... Christmas shopping?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8318708.stm

--> Terrorist caught in Boston, Mass. before he could kill people in a shopping mall. Perhaps buying online is a good choice these days.

http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSTRE5B248720091203

--> Imagine that... The Commander In Chief being vague about his war strategy. I suppose if the Dems in Congress were really interested in troop movements they could always ask Geraldo Rivera.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34256255/ns/us_news-life/

--> Whew! Christmas is saved and damn the tree! Missing couple turn up alive and well.

http://blogs.reuters.com/globalinvesting/2009/12/03/time-to-kick-russia-out-of-the-brics/

--> Russia is not the economic powerhouse it used to be

http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1944681,00.html

--> Nomblot Egg is the new hot item for vintners. It is better than an oak cask in that it does not impart tannins. It is better than stainless in that it allows for oxygenation. I'll have to locate some and try it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/03/AR2009120302143.html?hpid=moreheadlines

--> Don't worry, the White House only hires empty suits. (reference to last sentence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/asianCurrencyNews/idUSN0310913720091203

--> US economic policy is intended to address economic policy in the US? Then why did so much TARP money go overseas, Mr Bernanke? What happened to your globalist views, Mr Bernanke? I believe you are running the economy on expediency and not actual needs.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1945341,00.html

--> "Audit the Fed!" should be your new mantra. Say it with me. "Audit the Fed!"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579158,00.html

--> Glen Beck interview transcripts regarding the Global Warming scandal. It is interesting in that there is so little content.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488205,00.html

--> Unite or die. As this country is a secular government, I am not sure of the need for item two other than to say you believe in a power greater then The State. One goal of Communism and Socialism is to make The State into the ultimate authority.

http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/10-planks-of-communism.html

--> 10 Planks of Communism: The USA has fully enacted items 1 (thanks again, Justice Souter), 2, 4 (you can have your laptop or other items seized at the border upon entry to the US, and the IRS has performed audits of people that spoke out against the Clintons, and let's not forget Waco and the Branch Davidians where the only shots fired were by the Government), 6 (we have the DOT and FCC), and 10. Note the lack of a mention of religion (as I mentioned above), however, in a totalitarian regime, which the Socialist path always degrades to, religion becomes a tool of The State (refer to China and Soviet Russia).


"Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/02/task-force-apologizes-controversy-mammography-recommendations/

--> The government task force that recommended against annual mammograms says "Oops. Sorry." Their position has not changed. Meanwhile, a lady working my cafeteria at work will be undergoing chemotherapy in two weeks. She is an older lady. Fortunately, she wasn't following the new government task force guidelines.

http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20091013.shtml

--> Yes. It is like that. Get rich slow.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/bionic-arms-gallery

--> Prosthesis have come a long way since the claw

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-use-history-expansion-save-time-and-typing

--> Use history expansion to your benefit in Linux.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/02/027236/The-Voynich-Manuscript-May-Have-Been-Decoded

--> Mysterious ancient tome may have been decoded

http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi

--> Anagram of "fornication" becomes "A CON IF IN ROT", and "let's have sex" becomes "texas shelve" or even "he let ass vex"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-power-of-negative-thinking-aka-2009-12-01

--> Solar power is still not done right in this country.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578729,00.html

--> Fathers suffer postpartum depression, too. Date nights are recommended as a mitigation.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/02/doping.golfer/index.html

--> I totally sympathize with him. I say the PGA let him golf IF his numbers are average for people in his age and life style group. Therapeutic exemption!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0

--> Goldman Sachs bankers are packing heat these days. They fear a populist uprising. They think too much of themselves. If - Heaven forbid - there is a violent uprising of The People, it will be the government that is tarred and feathered. An intersting note: "The bailout was meant to keep the curtain drawn on the way the rich make money, not from the free market, but from the lack of one. ". As I pointed out yesterday, capitalism has not failed since we never had it in the first place.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100018459/at-midnight-last-night-the-united-kingdom-ceased-to-be-a-sovereign-state/

--> Goodbye United Kingdom.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/12/a-review-of-slow-and-fast-light.ars

--> "nothing in normal space can go faster than light, but if you can do funny things to space, you can go faster than light." I remember in the old RPG Traveller that the fastest way to send a message was not radio or laser, but a courier ship with a jump drive, since they could travel faster than the speed of light. The future may be full of envelopes. Hmmm... Alexandrite... Maybe use it in combination with another lasing material to create a charge pump? The photons that get spit back go into another lasing crystal that acts as a charge pump and dumps the light back out at a new wavelength. This would allow a light source with a broader bandwidth to become a laser or just change its spectral content.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/how-the-robber-barons-hijacked-the-victorian-internet.ars

--> Monopolistic control of Internet access by ISPs is nothing new. The same thing happened with the telegraph. This is also a story about the lack of a true free press. Unfortunate name: "Ah Yu Dick", "Ah Chu"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/02/facebook.networks.changes/index.html

--> Facebook becomes more private

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125976571618772821.html

--> Whistle-blower on Iran's abuse of arrested protesters is poisoned to death.

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/02/tiger-woods-apologizes-for-transgressions/

--> Tiger Woods gets around.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34239347/ns/technology_and_science-future_of_energy/

--> Space power... I am dubious on the idea of microwaving the planet. Also, having a laser in space powerful enough to transmit power is equally scary. Either technology could be weaponized in short order. It would be devastating.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03marriage.html?_r=1

--> Same gender couples in the state of New York may be able to marry pending a State Senate vote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?em

--> Ancient culture from the Eurasian Steppes (5000 BC to 3500 BC) was more advanced than Egypt and had large-scale copper smelting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34241415/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> AZ school school district IT director fired for using SETI@Hiome on school computers. Officials claim it will take $1,000,000 to remove the software from the 5000 computers. HORSECRAP!!! I have used SET@Home and it is benign. There is NO WAY that it would cost $1 million to remove that software. A simple admin script would do it. It could be done in a couple of days (assuming some computers were not turned on and need to be found and powered on). If SETI bogged down anything, then that was because the priority settings were set too high. This is another case of government bureaucrats lack of understanding of technology. Or is it? With AZ so far in the deficit hole, I think this guy was railroaded so the district could claim damages and get more money via emergency funding or lawsuit.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34240925/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> You can't tell a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot by how it smells.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/12/dad-spoke-only-klingon-to-his-son-for-three-years-1.html

--> A linguist's Klingon experiment fails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3ZksmCetA

--> Christmas carols gone all wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVasLR5oUW4

--> Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/6712676/China-wary-of-gold-bubble-danger-after-quietly-doubling-its-reserves.html

--> The recent rise in the price of gold is probably not going to last.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Wieg_cor/roger_dec12009.html

--> Inflation is good for the debtor, but not the lender. If inflation occurs, the debts are still fixed and become smaller in value. For example, if a mortgage has $100,000, and income is $60,000, but then say, hyper-inflation happens, more money needs to be printed, and then paid to keep up with the cost of living. So pretend a 200% inflation, the income rises to $240,000, but the house is still only $100,000 and is easier to pay off for the cost of spare change. This economic prediction article paints in broad brushes and extremes in hue.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15168/linux_rescues_a_failing_hard_drive

--> Rescue a failing hdd using Linux

http://www.gizmag.com/mini-ice-age-hit-in-months/13489/

--> A mini-iceage can hit within a matter of months.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/01/argentina.model.death/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

--> The price of vanity may be death.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/energy-environment/30led.html?_r=1

--> It's official, LED lights are more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Even when accounting for the entire life cycle.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/0215209/Recipient-of-First-Software-Patent-Defends-Them?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> Just say "no" to software patents

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577965,00.html

--> Women are happier than men. Is that because men spend a lot of time trying to make women happy? The attribution is to paid work and commuting. Women do 90 minutes of housework every day? They haven't been to my house.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427361.900-five-ecocrimes-we-commit-every-day.html?full=true

--> If toilet paper is an eco crime, then please arrest me.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-shape-of-atoms

--> The textbooks are correct. Atoms really do look like that way.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427365.000-the-world-looks-different-if-youre-depressed.html

--> Depressed people see the world differently. Perhaps a new test for depression will include a game of Where's Waldo.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427361.000-dark-power-grand-designs-for-interstellar-travel.html

--> New designs for interstellar spacecraft. One makes use of dark matter.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18216-dear-god-please-confirm-what-i-already-believe.html

--> People use religion as a moral compass. But people also make God in their own image and attribute God the same or similar morals that they believe. Belief in God is mapped to use of imagination and praying maps to the same part of the brain as talking with a friend. God is my imaginary friend and my best friend.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/12/this_is_not_your_fdrs_federal_government.php

--> The government FDR ran was vastly different from the one we have now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578297,00.html

--> Iraq's children are suffering from new cancers and birth defects. The tolls of war are catching up. Also, it appears folic acid deficiency is a problem.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/obama-strategy-a-high-stakes-g.html?wprss=44

--> Obama has been forming a war strategy for months? Then it appears he didn't consuilt with his generals; why else would they complain Obama won't return their calls? That should make you nervous and very dubious about the war plan. Months in the planning? I thought Obama was too busy trying to get the Olympics to Chicago and flying to every country he could think of.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/01/sugru-polymer-clay-t.html

--> I am pretty sure this is viral marketing, but the product actually looks really useful - Sugru polymer clay. Comment by Angstrom - um.. yeah. didn't think of that, but, yeah. Comment by Shadow Firebird - good questions! Food safe would be important!

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091201/mr-murdoch-and-the-rest-of-news-corp-go-to-washington/

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091201/D9CAA6J00.html

--> Government want the FTC to figure out how to prop up the mainstream media. Yup... government controlled news coming too a TV/radio/paper near you. It will be illegal to not have health insurance, will it soon be illegal to not read the morning bird cage liner?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-aunt-jemima-cartoon,0,6725349.story

--> I thought that Blacks (oh, sorry - African Americans - note that Africa comes first) couldn't be racists by PC standards. That's why they can use the "n-word" and whites cannot.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120101265.html

--> D.C might legalize same-sex marriage.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/01/world/AP-EU-Britain-Terror-Suspects.html?_r=1

--> Is it a blow to security or a win for freedom?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34222221/ns/today-today_books/

--> Worst sex in literature prize awarded to an American author.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/01/cnet.microsoft.black.screen/

--> Blue screen of death (BSOD) has been replaced with the Black Screen of Nothingness (BSON). Microsoft's recent Windows 7 security update implicated. True to form, Microsoft denies it has any issues.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/conservatism-and-the-climate.html

--> Unclear on the concept - there is a difference between "environmental conservation" and "Political Conservatism". Andrew Sullivan is trying to draw a false connection between the two based on the same root word having two different meanings (see yesterday's link to false arguments). I can do the same with Democrat and democracy. The Democrats are simply NOT interested in democracy, but are politically aligned with Socialism instead. Also, this illustrates the attitude of so many neo-conservationists belief in a static Earth environmental model. Political and environmentally, these types go against nature - human, and environmental. When you train a dog, you work with the nature of the dog to use inherent skills in novel ways. The laws and policies of the Liberals go against human nature and assume an ideal and rational human model. Humans are anything but rational. Their idea for Nature is similar in that they intend to bend the planet to their will (limit heating by 2 degrees C, i. e.) instead of working within the system and relocating farmland from arid areas to more amenable locales, changing the way we build cities, and houses, etc.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html

--> The Global Warming enthusiasts are decrying the release of the emails, but are strangely NOT decrying the content. They have been caught with their pants down and know it. A bad day for science, indeed.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/criticalbench24.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/matt20.htm

--> Prevent rotator cuff injuries during bench press. It seems I am slowly destroying mine. Time to change things up. Cable machine looks promising.

http://musclesurf.com/benchpress.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/progressive6.htm

--> Proper benchpress form. Big benchers have huge backs. Mine? Not so big.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9217647

--> Thinking about getting married? Talk about money, debt, and finances before tying the knot.

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/12/01/is-the-ambitious-obama-agenda-freezing-the-us-labor-market-ceos-think-so/

--> You will recall on my financial posts around this time last year that I was saying the same thing: the market is confused and with Washington changing policy direction on a minute-to-minute basis, does not know how to react.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/01/illegal-alpha/

--> alpha can be used to see if a company is on the up and up

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/01/the-morals-of-bailouts/

--> I stopped reading at this point: "... Dubai is simply defaulting on its non-recourse underwater loans in accordance with the amoral principles of capitalism." Felix Salmon has the brains of a fish. He clearly does not understand capitalism. Defaulting on loans and walking away Scot free is NOT part of capitalism; it is a violation of it. Capitalism is NOT an "anything for a buck" system. This is the typical attitude of so many Leftists that decry that capitalism is a failure. What failure they are seeing is the result of NOT following capitalism. Furthermore, NO ONE alive has seen capitalism - pure capitalism does not exist. It, like communism, is an ideal that can never be reached due to human nature. It is this human nature that corrupts these systems and turns communism into a murderous and oppressive totalitarian regime, and twists capitalism to develop sweatshops for children and corporate oligarchies (which is what we are headed toward). Both capitalism and communism work only in theory, and only on paper. Capitalism can be approached, and that is a worthy goal, but human nature must be taken into account when striving and that is one reason we have so many government regulations - the mistaken idea by a few that "anything not illegal is lawful". A prime example of this attitude can be found when Al Gore accepted campaign contributions from the Chinese and was caught, but was not punished as, "there is no governing body".

http://www.askmen.com/video/dating/45-how-to-get-laid.html

--> Easy steps on how to get laid. Hint: it is easier if you are female or homosexual.

http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_60/68b_dating_advice.html

--> Be assertive with your gal, but don't be an a--hole.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/27/hand.sanitizer.basics/index.html

--> Hand sanitizer works

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/28/obama-administration-plans-new-efforts-battle-foreclosure-crisis/

--> Obama foresees foreclosure crisis.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1158236974.shtml

--> Copying and imitation is a good thing

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/senators-nudge-eu-sun

--> Sun owns MySQL. Sun was bought by Oracle. Anyone besides the EU see a conflict here?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427366.100-shrinktofitspacesuit-eases-astronauts-workload.html

--> New spacesuit is self-fitting.

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=316043&pgid=rss

--> Leaving your job? Take your 401(k) with you

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576585,00.html

--> Women are cruel.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/20/quiz.technojargon/index.html

--> Techno jargon quiz

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=317390&pgid=rss

--> Add precious and not-so-precious metals to your portfolio


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/30/world/AP-AF-Congo-Prison-Escape.html?_r=1

--> Let me get this straight: people are attempting to escape prison due to overcrowding and not because, say, it is PRISON?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/30/world/AP-UN-UN-Humanitarian-Appeal.html

--> Just because your economy is in free fall and your country cannot even take care of its own is no reason to quit shoveling money to an inefficient and corrupt organization which will then, ultimately, help keep totalitarian rulers in power by means of "humanitarian aid", says the UN.

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/11/northeast_scall.html

--> Scalloping could provide much needed jobs and revenue, so the plan is to cut back on it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703499404574562123968802420.html

--> Al Gore and other such environmentalists are liars: "A comprehensive report in November by senior glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, released by the Indian government, looked more broadly and found that many of these glaciers are stable or have even advanced, and that the rate of retreat for many others has slowed recently.

Jeffrey S. Kargel, a glaciologist at the University of Arizona, declared in the Nov. 13 issue of Science that these "extremely provocative" findings were "consistent with what I have learned independently," while in the same issue of the magazine Kenneth Hewitt, a glaciologist at Wilfrid Laurier University, agreed that "there is no evidence" to support the suggestion that the glaciers are disappearing quickly. "

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=9203914

--> China thinks a gay bar will help prevent the spread of HIV AIDS.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091130-704627.html?mod=rss_Bonds

--> Libor rates are international loan rates between banks

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/more-on-the-climate-files-and-climate-trends/

--> Would open peer review help climate scientists regain face?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113001159.html

--> Dubai tanks and investors are leaving due to debt worries. Good thing we didn't let them run the docks after all.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/30/limbaugh-influential-conservative-poll-finds/

--> Pointless poll by 60 Minutes leaves people saying, "like, duh". Rush Limbaugh reported to be most influential Conservative.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2009-11-30-high-speed-rail-stimulus_N.htm

--> Hooray! More corporate bailout! No way in Hell will we get a high speed rail for the bargain price of $8,000,000,000. Entire tracks will have to be upgraded and closed to other rail traffic. That means laying new tracks... environmental studies (and the accompanying NIMBY lawsuits)... then there is the cost of engines... cost of train stations... and cost other supporting infrastructure. Should we have it? Yes! Will we get it for eight billion? No. No way will it happen.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5AT2VW20091130

--> European non-life insurers are slow to pay back investors.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/30/commentary.klau.blogging/

--> Blogging is an important tool of free speech.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4699907

--> Tiger Woods has drivers, but none of them are useful for cars. It seems he needs a new type of driver.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/30/michael-goodwin-afghanistan-obama-speech/

--> When media outlets bandy about the term "medieval" it always makes me cringe. The Taliban is not trying to create a "medieval" Sharia state. Islam was a bit more liberal in medieval times than the Wahhabist movement of TODAY.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1358003.html

--> Personally, I am against abortion, however, I do believe that this may not be the right way to go about protecting the unborn. Eating a high-fat food might be construed as child abuse and the mother sued and then the government would make the unborn child a ward of the state and have to imprison the mother. Extreme case - reductio ad absurdum

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

--> List of false arguments. EXCELLENT! How many of these do you hear the talking heads make? Obama is well known for "Failure to Assert, or Diminished Claim". Most political polls and surveys make use of "Complex Question". I recall a poll I participated in asking if I supported schools and supported increased taxes. That is two seperate issues tied together. I pointed it out to the pollster and refused to answer further questions since the results were going to be meaningless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/opinion/12sun1.html

--> No link to polls. No notes. No reasons given for "why" some things are so. USA has about 304 million people. Germany has about 82 million. Australia has about 21 million. Could that be a factor? Dissatisfaction in health care: we have one of the highest standards of living in the world. Even our "poor" are better off. Why wouldn't we find dissatisfaction? We are well off enough to be able to complain about how well off we are.

http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/11/30/in-dengue-infested-indonesian-village-clinic-or-trees/

--> Which has more value: a tree or a human life? Greenpeace hates people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113001880.html

--> Hint: words mean NOTHING. Talk is only a delay to give them more time to do what they are going to do anyway. I, too question the usefulness of the IAEA. NPT, and U.N..

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1358323.html

--> The Kyoto protocol penalizes developed nations for being... developed. The developing nations are the ones creating pollution, so should be placed under restrictions. However, they don't have the capital to reform their developing industries so would require support from the developed nations. India understandably, will not agree to the Danish proposal of developing nations cutting emissions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/health/01dutch.html?_r=1

--> Is it insane to get yourself committed to an asylum to be a voyeur of the insane?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/technology/internet/30google.html

--> Yahoo! is more popular in Japan then Google. Google has LOTS of catching up to do.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/fico_score_damage_revealed.php

--> What damage does a credit "oops" do to your FICO credit rating? Here are some common ones and the points you get dinged for.

http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2009/11/27/the-hidden-meaning-of-the-hidden-starbucks-logo/

--> Coffee ninjas, stealthy Starbucks - not what the public wanted. Their corporate avarice is turning into an Achilles's heel.

...while I wait on the turkey...



http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/11/microsoft-issues-take-down-notices-over-spilled-cofee.ars

--> Microsoft computer forensics tool leaked. Get it while you can! Bittorrent should have it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091125231252.htm

--> Aurora Saturnis? Saturn's northern lights.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=2D5F1E02-0355-E6A9-061FE10D72AB8281

--> Enceladus shows evidence of geologic activity.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18205-rainbow-trapped-for-the-first-time.html

--> super simple tapered waveguide traps a rainbow

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skin-hearing-airflow-puff-sound-perception

--> Your eardrums are not the only thing used to hear - your skin is, too.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/25/state.dinner.crashers/index.html

--> White House state dinner crashed

http://www.gizmag.com/ccsvi-multiple-sclerosis-ms-cure-zamboni/13447/

--> MS, Multiple Scleoris, may have more than one cause, and the treatment for many may be a very simple and common surgical procedure.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/news/0911/gallery.economy_heroes/index.html

--> Quit looking to the government to help. They always screw things up. Look to your neighbors.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/25/google.michelle.obama.controversy-2/index.html

--> Someone makes fun of the First Lady. She gets ticked and manipulates Google. Wah. Boo hoo. What a whiner. Welcome to the world of politics, babe.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=what-explains-past-climate-change-09-11-26

--> Climate change in the past was driven by the Sun. What has changed? People? Even ancient Rome had laws governing air quality standards. In the medieval times, wood was the fuel used and entire forests were eradicated.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/two-us-senators-dema.html

--> Two senators take US Trade Representative to task for making international anti-copyright treaty secret. Comment by phenomenon: "You didn't really think democratic governments like the ones in the US and Britain (or rather the politicians that control them) were that much different from China's did you? Both will do what they please. Politicians are quite adapt at manipulating their demographics in democratic society once they are in position to do so. When that fails there are always these fall backs. Politicians, as a whole, are not interested in letting go of power."

http://kottke.org/09/11/how-the-h1n1-vaccine-is-made

--> How the influenza vaccine is made. Clinical testing is required in Europe but not in the US.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/homebrew_solar_charger.html

--> Solar powered grow light for your plants. Schematic included.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/giving-up-the-gimp-is-a-sign-of-ubuntus-mainstream-maturity.ars

--> Someone explain to me how removal of GIMP will make Ubuntu more "mainstream"? It is Linux. Linux, for all the awesome it is, is NOT mainstream. And I take exception to referring to GIMP as a niche product. Later in the article, the author praises it as a "serious contender" to other professional graphic editors. That doesn't sound like "niche" to me. The problem turns out that GIMP is too advanced for Ubuntu and they are seeking something simpler for their default install.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/0014249/Shedding-Your-Identity-In-the-Digital-Age

--> How to disappear in the digital age. You are being tracked EVERYWHERE.

http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/

--> Ubuntu manga. GTFO. That is too bizarre.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576535,00.html

--> 14 is too young for a sex change. He is too young (pre-puberty) to know what he wants. He needs therapy, to be sure. Let Britain's famous government healthcare pay for that.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576626,00.html

--> Guys, work not treating you fair? Angry about it? Don't hold it in, you'll die of a heart attack.

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=317091&pgid=rss

--> Three investment mistakes. Investing takes discipline.

http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/18/putting-a-price-on-life/

--> The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is not about saving lives. It is about pseudo-rationing of health care. The health care gets scaled back now so people can't cry out "rationing!" when the bill is finally passed. Do believe that the government will not pay for procedures beyond what the Task Force recommends.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576826,00.html

--> Yes. Let's get the "unneeded medical procedure" meme out there. Government healthcare is about to be passed and we just can't have "rationing" now can we? Granted, some of these probably are quackery, but the meme is what is important here.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/224169

--> The inclusion of the "get rid of breast self-exams" could be a red herring. Or it may just be that the Task Force is right in saying all these checks are not really helpful. Sharon Begley seems to put a price on life. Exams for1300 women for a decade saves one life. What is the price for life? I think one of the problems with the health care price debate is that people are arguing for a lowering of ALL costs on all procedures. That is not feasible. I think there can be a lowering of costs on certain procedures, but not likely across the board.

http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/have-a-cup-of-mint-tea-and-call-me-in-the-morning/

--> Brazilian mint (Hypnis crenata) makes a good analgesic and anti-inflammatory tea.

http://video.foxnews.com/11898666/going-braless

--> Internal bra ... can't see video at work for some reason.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123094126.htm

--> OTC cough remedies are not effective. The reason we cough has been identified.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/25/dating.apps/index.html

--> Use your cellphone to validate your date. Reminds me of a scene from Kentucky Fried Movie.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2009/11/music-library-disaster-rip-songs-from-your-ipod.ars

--> Your music library wiped out? Here is how to recover it from your iPod.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=new-species-galore-in-discoveries-a-2009-11-25

--> We always hear bout the loss of a species, but rarely about new ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/25/business/AP-US-Mortgage-Rates.html?_r=1

--> Mortgage rates are low... if you can get a loan.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-china-flu-mutation,0,5981455.story

--> China also finds H1N1 mutant. Still responds to vaccine.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Housing/idUSTRE5AO2P620091125

--> Home sales rose sharply in October, but who is buying? Corporations and speculators trying to make a buck on the fire sale prices? The regular folks have trouble getting loans.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Female-Mandrill-Monkey-Sniffs-Out-A-Mate-With-Different-Genes---Humans-May-Be-Wired-The-Same-Way/Article/200911415466067?lpos=UK_News_Third_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region__1&lid=ARTICLE_15466067_Female_Mandrill_Monkey_Sniffs_Out_A_Mate_With_Different_Genes_-_Humans_May_Be_Wired_The_Same_Way_

--> Maybe all those daily baths are not such a good idea, after all. Ladies, be forewarned that birth control pills will change your true preferences. When you get off the pill, you may be surprised to find you don't really want what you've got.




Happy Thanksgiving to all! I'll be back next week.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

--> Ever wonder why you rarely hear opposition to the scientists advocating Global Warming? Opposing views have been locked out.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555481034996654.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

--> H1N1 flu vaccine from Glaxo-Smith-Kline may cause a deadly allergic reaction

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/3d_scanner_using_standard_webcam.html

--> Use a standard webcam to make 3D images

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091120/0213517018.shtml

--> Thinking of running for office? What you have posted online may come back to haunt you.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091124/0131587064.shtml

--> Your private data is not safe when in the hands of your government.

http://www.gizmag.com/spy-wi-fi-signal-camera-detector-chinavision-cvmv-j19/13425/

--> Detect hidden webcams

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/23/recession.jobs/index.html

--> Jobless rate continues to grow. Why do people say the economy is getting better? Production is higher, but loan rates are also incredibly low.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34040009

--> The REAL jobless rate is 17.5%

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/real_estate/mortgages_underwater/index.htm

--> 25% of mortgages are on property whose value is less than the loan, or "underwater". And experts still say the economy is improving.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575971,00.html

--> Looking to lose weight? Here are some calorie myths.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576511,00.html

--> Drug resistant MRSA on the rise. A good place to catch it is in the hospital.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-time-from-space

--> A new take on gravity, space, and time shows that dark matter and dark energy don't really exist.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083704.htm

--> Collapse of the global economy means salvation from global warming. Energy conservation spurs greater economic growth and thus greater energy consumption. Perhaps climate scientists should stick to the climate and not dabble in economics.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/letters/story/966895.html

--> Government for sale. If the health care bill is so great, WHY is it so hard to get the representatives to support it? Why won't Congress and the Senate use it instead of their own plan? "Providing improved health care access to all Americans is a worthy goal. I predict that the greatest impact of this bill, however, will be to put a greater and greater portion of the people’s resources in the hands of people who will misuse them like Reid has done."

Thomas Jefferson quotes:
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"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.

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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law” because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/news/economy/gdp/index.htm

--> Contrary to earlier reports, good times are not just ahead. GPD shows warning signs.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576466,00.html

--> ACORN tries to hide its malfeasance and puts out thousands of documents containing private data.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mental-bottleneck

--> Multitasking is not the brain's forte.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- Sir William Osler

--> Seems to me that there are some VERY vocal Liberals... and Conservatives ... and environmentalists...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1942659,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

--> Britain .... yes THAT Britain.. is home to one of the largest erotic material expos

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/seiu-could-sever-ties-with-california-democratic-party.html

--> SEIU plans to cut off foot to spite face. If SEIU ditches the Democrats, then the Democrats won't get the funding they need to maintain hegemony in California. In that event, SEIU becomes marginalized and the legislation they desire will likely not be passed. Good.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/the-skeleton-that-the-page-museum-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html

--> Le Brea woman is 9000 years old. I strongly doubt that ANY of the Native American tribes that were in existence even 1000 years ago exist anymore. They should not have a claim on artifacts that are older than they are.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/24/ap/national/main5759979.shtml

--> More lacrosse players accused of rape. Are we seeing another railroad job?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10396076-64.html

--> Firefox is hot. No. Really. It will heat up your CPU.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/global-warming-report-finds-time-running/story?id=9159815

--> Yawn. More environmental doomsday. Do people REALLY think that Nature cannot take care of itself or that it hasn't easily handled similar or even worse situations than this? The environment is NOT STATIC. Deal with it. Comment by Shepard150: "Note there are no names stated nor evidence given. This is basically a press release that went out with no fact checking. "

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AN45E20091124

--> A fine is supposed to be a punitive economic assessment against a company or individual to make them change their behavior. This fine amount is way too low.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/24/hiv.aids.decline/

--> Good news from the U.N.: new HIV AIDS infections have been on the decline for most countries (some are on the rise). A decline of 17% over the last eight years. Now is not the time to become complacent!

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/24/news/news-us-flu-who.html?_r=1

--> Perhaps if doctors were not handing out Tamiflu like candy the drug resistant strain of H1N1 would not be a problem. WHO investigating mutated form of H1N1 that goes deeper into the lungs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8367301.stm

--> If you have cancer, don't take morphine. I can't take such class of drugs due to an "intolerance". No morphine, codeine, or other narcotics for me.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/22/murdoch-microsoft-de.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> Microsoft will pay to have News Corp and other online publishers advertise exclusively on Bing. Seems like a bad deal for both companies, IMHO.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/22/shackletons-antarcti.html

--> 100 year old scotch whisky found in Antarctic.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/23/beautiful-transparen.html

--> Cool transparent sea cucumber found in ocean depths.

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23996/

--> Solar power and water can change CO2 into the fuel syngas.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/bluesmirf_found_in_credit_card_snif.html

--> Credit card sniffer.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2313225/Is-That-Sushi-Hazardous-To-Your-Health

--> Is your sushi safe?

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/013255/After-35-Years-Another-Message-Sent-From-Arecibo

--> One way communication is lonely.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/19/suicide.survivors.irpt/index.html

--> Suicide is an inherently selfish act - is "solves" the problems of the one who is dead but burdens everyone else.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/20/h1n1.fever.doctor/index.html

--> H1N1 may not have a fever associated with it. If your child is sick with flu-like symptoms, take them to the doctor. Tamiflu is not always the answer.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576230,00.html

--> Sex magazine for teens will not be banned from Iowa library despite objections of parents.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/22/kennedy.abortion/index.html

--> I shall side with the church. He is in violation of a major part of the Catholic belief system. I suspect that the church would act similarly if it wasn't abortion, but murder of adults.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/22/pennsylvania.three.mile.island/index.html

--> Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is O-L-D. We need to build some more modern nuclear power plants that are safer and more efficient.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576027,00.html

--> Wait and see... Much preventative care will go away BEFORE the health care bill is passed. This is so the government can say "no no no... the Obamacare bill didn't cut or ration any medical procedures!" Last line is proof that screening saves lives.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/22/health.care/index.html

--> If the Dems are so open to changes, then why are the votes always along party lines and the Republicans (literally) locked out of participation? Why is Republican input not considered whatsoever? No. The Dems are NOT open to altering the bill - unless it is by their own devises.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/23/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5747292.shtml

--> Dems have not reached consensus on the details of the health care bill. Lovely picture of Sarah Palin - how deep in their archives did they have to dig to find such an unflattering photo? ... Can the media just stop with this petty hate fest? It really is tired.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9C58PJ01.htm

--> And the proof that the Dems are not open to Republican input...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lhc-restart

--> Looks like the LHC is back online

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=2

--> The government will have to pay back debt soon. It is like an ARM with low initial rates, but they are about to change the payments to creditors will go WAY up.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aI4IdHYuAl94

--> Whatever happened to War Bonds? If you support the war then you can fund it. If you don't support it, then keep your money! Carl Levin is an idiot.

http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d22-The-Hockey-Stick-was-never-accurateand-CRU-knew-it

--> The famous hockey stick graph is bullcrap. What the puck is going on? Lies lies lies about the environment and global warming.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/climategate-the-very-ugly-side-of-climate-science/

--> Climate science is not so much about science.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13848546?source=most_emailed

--> Apparently California still doesn't know that their environmental policies are based on a lie.

http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Mexican_Families_Begin_Sending_Money_to_Relatives_in_US_91117

--> Is our economy bad? Apparently, illegals here in the US are receiving money from their relatives in Mexico.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18184-friendly-bacteria-keep-your-skins-defences-in-check.html

--> Not all bacteria are bad. That hand sanitizer gel may not be as helpful as you'd think.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427354.200-dark-galaxy-crashing-into-the-milky-way.html

--> The Milky Way is currently colliding with a dark galaxy.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18182-frankenstein-fix-lets-asteroid-mission-cheat-death.html

--> An asteroid soil sample may be on its way back to Earth. Let's hope it can return safely.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112301143.html

--> If she was a Democrat, all would be forgiven.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/back-to-the-middle-ages.html

--> Liberals are fond of moral relativism. How about this application? Uganda has introduced legislation making homosexuality punishable by death - but that is their culture and values and we are just different from them. They are not bad people, just different from us. We may have a lot to learn from each other. ... Um. Yeah. Moral relativism just doesn't work, does it? And what is this "middle ages" reference? I'd like to see some supporting primary authoritative documentation. Hint: Wikipedia is neither primary nor authoritative.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5AM2XR20091123?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

--> US gets a new flu vaccine plant - it will use dog cells, not eggs, to make antigens. Sooo... does this mean that only men will be able to receive new flu vaccines? ... Cause, ya know, any woman will tell you that all men are dogs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mika-brzezinski/work-and-babies-women-sti_b_367671.html

--> It is always about the woman. Nothing for the father. What about the FATHER'S self? What about HIS self-fulfillment? Fathers sacrifice as much as the woman... working crappy jobs because the pay is good, skipping that nice business trip to some fancy convention because their wife needs them at home, neglecting their own hobbies to take over child rearing for their wife to give her a moment of respite. Never a mention of how while children are in daycare or school that the housewife has gobs of free time to pursue pretty much whatever. The father? No. No free time. There is only the daily banal hell of slowly having his self ground into dust of what once was - dreams, hopes, aspirations wilt like an unpicked rose. Having been an at home father with a crying newborn baby while my wife worked, I can say this lady is completely off. What is making her so miserable is her constant selfish search for her own self-fulfillment and shameless consumerism and fancy house. She could have been a lot more happy if she learned to dial back her expenses so that a single income could easily support her family instead of trying to have it all and all right now.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/11/political_correctness_killed_americans.php

--> Political correctness is deadly.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/23/holiday.travel/

--> Holiday travel myths debunked.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/19/nile-gardiner-heritage-obama-failure-world-leader/

--> You hear me harp on the difference between opinion and news. Here is a good example of opinion. It even says so, in fact, at the very top in big black letters. I happen to agree with the opinion that Obama has not achieved anything meaningful in all his foreign travels.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/79112.html

--> Marriages in Texas may not be legal. Time to bring in the lawyers!

http://www.google.com/patents?id=uNUVAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

--> The mark of The Beast is a card you will carry.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17584134?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=4&log$=relatedreviews&logdbfrom=pubmed

--> Bremelanotide (PT-141) appears to be useful for female sexual dysfunction. Side effects include increased blood pressure and flushing. So thee are now two drugs available: bremelanotide and Flibanserin. They work in different ways, but seem to have similar end results with Flibanserin taking longer to act.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2009/11/18/There-Is-No-Such-Thing-As-Female-Viagra-Flibanserin-Can_2700_t-Change-Why-Some-Women-Don_2700_t-Want-Sex-.aspx

--> Believe me, doing the dishes MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.

http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/video-m-d-retracts-h1n1-vaccine-advice-after-reading-insert/

--> "...an adjuvant called MF 59, which contains the Guillan-Barre ascending paralysis-causing SQUALENE, is indeed in the H1N1 vaccine..."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-bows_-but-the-world-refuses-to-bow-back-8548597-70327287.html

--> A lot of you tout Obama's ability at foreign relations. I say he has none. With all his travels, what has her really accomplished? Seriously. What? He may be likable, but that does not mean he enjoys the respect of other world leaders. Obama is a weak leader. Bush may have been disliked, but he had the respect of other world leaders. I don't see that same level with Obama. Largely, they politely ignore him.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/popcorn/

--> Screw the nutrition facts. I will die fat, happy, and entertained!

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9129135

--> Army protects Obama from Palin hordes

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/19/the-unbearable-pain-of-001/

--> Something is fishy here (pun intended). Felix Salmon doesn't get it. An interest rate of 0.01% translates to a loss of whatever percent inflation is. You are not making any money unless your interest rate beats inflation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Politics/biblical-anti-obama-slogan-psalm-1098-funny-sinister/story?id=9120534

--> I guess that's one way to get secular Socialists to read the Bible.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112001414.html

--> "Conservative Drift"? You mean like nominating judges that will actually follow the constitution? THAT Conservative drift?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575827,00.html?test=latestnews

--> A really good take on the new libido-enhancing drug, Flibanserin. Low-libido is not well defined and is almost entirely subjective on an individual basis. This is akin to the saying "I'm okay; you're okay." That is medical moral relativism. How about defining libido for different age groups based on global average of sexual desire (not necessarily actual sex, but the *desire* for it) and the frequency of intercourse. Adjust the data to account for sex workers or other "pay for play" type data points. Why has no one done this? It seems simple enough to get a statistical sampling for this data..

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AJ2YB20091120

--> Maybe thee should be a new warning label for cosmetics: "Sapiens Safe: No humans were harmed in the making of this product."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/greider/print

--> Taxes on the buying and selling of stock shares harms the little guy. Your 401(k) and IRA will get nailed with new fees.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/obama_flubbed_his_1st_stimulus_can_he_pass_a_2nd.php

--Obama has a plan. A plan this good cannot fail twice! Just say 'no' to more stimulus. No more spending. How about a tax holiday, instead?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575890,00.html

--> This child is broken. I think a "retroactive abortion" is in order for this 15 year old ghoul.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427355.700-is-this-the-end-for-human-space-flight.html

-->"No president will ask taxpayers to fund something he won't be around to take credit for." It is time for putting politics aside and make NASA get back on track and in the game. Oh... and there is no "George Bush senior". George Bush the elder is the correct designation. "Conceived in the cold war, reinvented as an emblem of international cooperation, then repeatedly dismissed as a white elephant, the space station has nonetheless come to pass." and even the author of the article calls is a white elephant. ... my comment as posted: "First our authors call the space station a white-elephant. Then they seem to take others to task for the same thing.

There is no "George Bush, Senior". The appropriate designation would be "George Bush, the elder".

The reason we went to The Moon was politics: we had to demonstrate technological superiority to the Soviets. We have no similar threat these days so there is no driving force. Until we see a clear threat to our hegemony or imminent destruction, we will not have a strong desire to make a legitimate effort in the new "space race". The motivation is simply not there."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119135642.htm

--> Import and export of frogs legs may be spreading deadly amphibian pathogens.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/20/uk.crime.strangle/index.html

--> Antidepressants linked to UK man who killed his wife in his sleep.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1257232/Zero-Day-Vulnerabilities-In-Firefox-Extensions

--> Some Firefox extensions may be malicious.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427353.800-ripples-in-space-divide-classical-and-quantum-worlds.html

--> Why don't objects on a macro level act like objects on a quantum-micro level?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/the-illustrated-man-how-led-tattoos-could-change-the-face-of-humanity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> I foresee a huge demand for this technology. Many people will be interested in body augmentation of this sort. I think I shall buy stock in Philips.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/irc-chats-pidgin

--> Pidgin can do pretty near any chat protocol... even IRC. Works on Windows and Linux.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112001990.html

--> The governor doesn't matter. And she probably won't come election day, too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34061492/ns/politics-health_care_reform/

--> Single party government equals "you're screwed". The bill is more than 2000 pages. The U.S. Constitution is how many pages? How much confusion and controversy has it caused? Now we have 2074 pages to play legal touch tag with.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/senate-healthcare-glenn-beck-sarah-palin-book.html

--> Instead of reading the Obamacare bill, you could be doing these things in the same amount of time. The Bible is only 1200 some odd pages. Read it all in less time. Plus it is sure to be more interesting.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575927,00.html?test=latestnews

--> H1N1 flu vaccine: too little, too late. H1N1 is on the decline.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1941620,00.html

--> Russian law enforcement is in need of reform.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575989,00.html

--> More talk from the U.N.. Has Iran ever listened? Ever?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34065140/ns/health-cold_and_flu/

--> H1N1 mutation makes it more deadly.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704204304574545733826430664.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

--> This Congress is the "most obstructionist in 27 years"? Really? I thought that the Democrats had a clear majority in both the House and Senate. Who's being obstructionist? Perhaps this is one of those "phony studies" Kerry is talking about. If there is obstruction going on, it sure isn't the Republicans doing it. INTERESTING statistics on accountability journalism - bread and circuses, anyone? Britain denies life-saving medicine to liver cancer patients. Government medical care coming to a country... you live in! The Chinese think little of Obama.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5AJ2ZY20091120

--> Air pollution from ships is slowing global warming. So is air pollution bad for the planet or good for it? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS. It is clear that the GW evangelists still don't have a clue of what is going on. 60,000 people supposedly die due to ship pollution. How many would die due to increased global warming?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2009/11/the_dangers_of_walking_and_tal.html?wprss=checkup

--> Driving while talking on your cellphone is bad. But so is even walking.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hoffman-rescinds-concession-ny-23-race/story?id=9107863

--> It ain't over until it is over.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575535,00.html

--> A new variation of the rhinovirus (that causes the common cold) acts just like the flu.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575534,00.html

--> Tragic. Truly sad for him. Was the guy taking Ambien?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AG4BJ20091117?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+(News+%2F+US+%2F+Oddly+Enough)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> Political correctness comes at a price. A politically correct name could cost you 1,000 British pounds.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/homebrew_transistor_experiments.html

--> Make your own transistors

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/make_presents_the_led_a_m.html

--> Make your own LEDs

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/0123217/Can-We-Really-Tell-Lossless-From-MP3?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> FLAC versus MP3. MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm, and FLAC is not. Most people cannot hear the difference.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2745765.htm

--> Australian Senator Xenophon accuses the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organization. France would seem to agree.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/17/2323254/Spain-Codifies-the-Right-To-Broadband?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> Spain to make broadband a right

http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/Ex-soldier-faces-jail-handing-gun/article-1509082-detail/article.html

--> Next time, keep the weapon. The laws penalize the honest. Why is there a jury? Is it to find facts? If so then you don't really need one. I believe the purpose of the jury is to determine if the law is reasonable or applicable in the situation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575490,00.html

--> Some popular toys still have too much lead.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=pharaohs-had-heart-disease-09-11-18

--> Heart disease is nothing new. The Pharaohs had atherosclerosis.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/17/law.technology/index.html?eref=rss_tech&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_tech+(RSS%3A+Technology)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> Puplic statements on your social media can be used against you. Watch what you say in public.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-Cracks-Down-On-Scammy-siliconalley-2433376739.html?x=0&.v=1

--> Google gets tough on scammers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117124009.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

--> A big brain doesn't mean you are more intelligent. "To use a computer analogy, bigger brains might in many cases be bigger hard drives, not necessarily better processors."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/hollywood-wants-to-own-your-outputs-and-thats-a-good-idea.ars

--> Would you grant the MPAA control over your home theater?

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/11/17/this-is-why-youre-not-making-money-in-the-market.aspx

--> Making money in this market is not easy

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCallPlusBreastCancerNews/mammogram-recommendations-meet-widespread-rejection/story?id=9109591

--> So it seems that the governments health plan for women is... just die of cancer. Just die. If one of the "problems" with a false positive is "unnecessary anxiety", isn't that better than not detecting cancer at all? ""There's no breast cancer expertise on that panel, and I think it's hard to develop guidelines with the data as it is without understanding breast cancer," he said. "It's certainly not a change in the evidence. Something else is at work." "

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCallPlusBreastCancerNews/story?id=7619276&page=1

--> 10 year old girl survives breast cancer. 10!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/18/rollins.lou.dobbs.departure.cnn/

--> "advocacy journalism" is editorial. O'Reilly is editorial. Dobbs was editorial. there is nothing wrong with editorial, except when it is presented as being the news. Oreilly never did that when I have seen his show. I rarely got a chance to see Dobbs (as I rarely ever watch TV). CNN is NOT a non-partisan news network. They are, in fact, demonstrably Left leaning.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/11/18/o.twilight.newmoon.meyer/

--> I have no interest - zero - in Twilight. I don't even know why I was reading this article. It sounds like her husband wasn't very supportive... and that is all the mention he got after 15 years of marriage. Lesson to learn here?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/18/borger.death.panels/

--> It always starts innocuous enough... and then years later you have Soylent Green. Then New Deal was harmless enough. Progressive tax structure started as benign. Public schools were such a nice idea. Social security was supposed to be a supplement, not a retirement income. Corporate bailouts preserved jobs... now... BOOM! Welcome to Amerika. How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya? Don't look at things for what they are now; look at them for WHAT THEY WILL BECOME. It may take decades, but the benign will eventually be perverted as a tool to support the greedy and power mad.

http://www.reuters.com/article/americasRegulatoryNews/idUSN1810402020091118

--> Too big to fail... Something that big SHOULD be broken up and decentralized to preserve stability. As uncharacteristic as it is for me and my strong Conservative bend, I think this may be the best move. My issue now is how to best structure the breakup so that investor capital is not harmed and it doesn't go into making political favors and paybacks. Plus, a clear and definite criteria as to what is "too big" needs to be created. Once done so, most companies will spin off divisions automatically so as to avoid government interference. Why is there a need to coordinate with the Europeans? That needs explanation beyond "global economy".

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-girl-shocked-ozark,0,5457166.story

--> Some kids just need a good tasing.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575555,00.html

--> In California, say goodbye to your massive flat screen plasma TVs. Why can't California just get with the rest of the Union and build an actual power plant? It would create jobs now and in the future and allow for more economic growth.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704533904574543663763733676.html?mod=article-outset-box

--> Time to buy US gold coins. Sales begin December 3.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575608,00.html

--> Slow global warming through population control. FREE RUBBERS FOR ALL! Does the UN understand how much effort goes into growing all those rubber trees to get the latex and the chemicals and then the transport and delivery? It admits it has no proof this concept will work. But who doesn't like sex without consequences? How about this: don't make condoms, don't treat STDs and then let the infected people that can't keep their zippers up die or their diseases. The ones left alive will be the folks that are responsible and capable of self-control. That is an ideal population. How's that for population control?

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9C269N00.htm

--> Why are all of Obama's picks for people in fiduciary roles all having "tax anomalies"?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575334,00.html

--> Why women love loving vampires. My take: 1) women want someone they can change, 2) women like bad boys despite their complaints to the contrary, 3) women want to be seduced and enthralled

http://defensetech.org/2009/11/17/super-cavitation-and-the-truth/

--> The truth about supercavitation

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/14/children.fears.real.imaginary/index.html

--> Are imaginary monsters nice and friendly or... imaginary. What to tell your kids about the boogie man (no, not John Travolta) under the bed and scary imagery.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/16/paul.allen.cancer/index.html

--> Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen, has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I'll skip the insensitive jokes about Microsoft Windows being a cancer.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AF4W320091116

--> In Russia, you are what you eat.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AF4WP20091116

--> Hint: it is not a perfect crime if you are caught.

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Do_Speedy_Math_in_Your_Head

--> Do speedy math in your head. Wow. Cool.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AF4WG20091116

--> Islam is no party for 200 Italian women.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

--> The Moon has LOTS of water.

http://www.meteorshowersonline.com/leonids.html

--> Leonid meteor shower peaks today.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116163212.htm

--> Empathy and ability to handle stress are due to a genetic variations in the oxytocin receptor. Maybe.

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Read_a_Barcode

--> How to read a bar code.

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html

--> A contractor hired to perform Linux work was fired for... using Linux.

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/11/16/the-top-10-depression-stocks.aspx

--> A depression is a good time to buy stocks on the cheap if you have the capital.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575372,00.html

--> The UN has a plan. It is a good plan. A plan this good cannot fail... how many times has it been tried now? Talk. That is all the UN is good at.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-brains-calculations

--> Or brain constantly makes calculations based on familiar objects

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/11/top-10-bad-messages-from-good-movies/

--> Good movies with bad messages.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/17/hiney-virus-update.html

--> H1N1 virus is pronounced "hiney".

http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?channel_id=1020&relation_id=71452&news_channel_id=1020&news_id=29487

--> The H1N1 death toll does not tell you about the real effects of H1N1. "Are you confused by the H1N1 numbers? Wondering why public health officials are making such a fuss about a virus that has so far killed so few people? You aren't alone. "

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18167-limp-reception-for-female-libido-drug.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

--> More on the female libido drug: ""An effect that's statistically significant may not be clinically meaningful." "

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16922824.800-what-women-want.html?full=true

--> A look back in time at some of the complex issues surrounding FSD. Still, no clear definition on what is "low libido". ... "Laura Berman is not convinced. "This is the view that I was trained on," she says. " When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. She is refusing to think outside the box.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574541771194149620.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

--> Blue Dogs are all bark and no bite. Giffords is counted among them? She's as Liberal as I have seen. She's no Blue Dog... never was.

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/17/6-reasons-healthcare-reform-might-fail-in-the-senate/

--> Fail in Senate? I am not so sure about that.

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/17/on-gold-and-asset-bubbles-and-inflation/

--> Why gold is on the rise: America's central role is collapsing. Expect another bubble and the associated crash. When that happens, gold will shoot through the roof. Gold: a good short term investment.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575463,00.html

--> He was not what you would call an "expert" and tried it at home

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/17/ken-klukowski-new-york-terror-trials-ksm-lawyer-advice/

--> What the HELL is Obama thinking? What is the plan here? Why? What possible good can come from giving a foreign terrorist captured by the military during war on foreign soil a civil trial in a country where there is no possible place for a clean venue? They are ALL lawyers. They are up to something. But what? What is the end game here? We can guess what the short term outcome will be, but what is the long term goal?

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5AG4QT20091117

--> Babies with a flat head are a result of environment, not genetics.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574530720944552390.html

--> What would happen is that 76% of the voting shares would wind up in the hands of the board members, corporate officers, and their friends. The number of shares available might be initially high, but a buy back would occur and eventually reduce the shares available to the general public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes

--> Now that is some funny stuff!

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=9093634

--> A new non-hormonal drug to help premenopausal women with low libido. Low libido seems to be defined as 2.8 times per month, on average. This may affect one in 10 women in the U.S.. Short term side effects don't seem to be that bad, but since you are mucking about with the neurological pathways, what are the long term effects? I remember reading in Playboy an article on a variant of the drug Ecstasy (variant now a controlled substance) that made every touch into something erotic feeling. Maybe this drug will become the new party drug.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33963387/ns/health-sexual_health/

--> Sexually transmitted diseases on the rise among teens. And yet, Obama wants to move away from abstinance-only sex education. Seems to me that LESS sex would make for LESS disease. Or maybe I am just being logical and that really has nothing to do with government programs and political agendas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32784197/ns/health-sexual_health/?ns=health-sexual_health

--> Syphilis on the rise. Left untreated it can cause brain damage. In utero infections of infants has a 40% mortality rate. It is 100% curable.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33347708/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/?ns=health-kids_and_parenting

--> Genital wart drug Gardasil now approved for use in boys. Gardasil's long term effectiveness may not be all it was hyped.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575279,00.html

--> "Rivals on the dating scene could make one feel closer to God, according to new research that suggests one's religiousness may be more closely related to mating strategies than previously known." ... "The volunteers appeared more religious when exposed to attractive members of their own sex." ... Yeah... they are praying that they'll get the girl and not the better looking guy. Or maybe praying that their target of affection doesn't have an STD.

http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/12/elements-of-attraction/

--> Opposites attract... but don't tend to stay together long term.

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/11/16/russian-orthodox-wants-joint-traditional-front-with-catholics/

--> Pope welcomed Anglicans and Episcopalians, now the Russian Orthodox wants in the game of doctrinal acceptance

http://views.washingtonpost.com/post-user-polls/2009/11/dc-council-vs-the-catholic-church.html

--> "Against Gay marriage? Don't have one!" says the popular bumper sticker. I think the first comment by Hillman1 has great insight. His other comments are without merit. I was married as an Episcopal (i.e. Protestant). The Catholic Church has ALWAYS recognized my marriage. What the Catholic church does not recognize (except in certain instances) is divorce. Comment by Fatherjoseph is spot on.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthyLiving/debate-chocolate-milk-served-schools/story?id=9090916

--> Chocolate milk: sweet treat or healthy food?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/16/sex.blogger.identity/

--> Now that is what I call a high class call girl. But now that her identity is outed, will she still be able to continue being a cancer researcher? The director of communication says so, but what about socially?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33964571/ns/today-today_food_and_wine/

--> 100 year old scotch whiskey to be recovered from under Antarctic ice. Whiskey stops aging when removed from the barrel. This stuff has been in a bottle. McKinlay is no longer made but may make a comeback if it is good and can be replicated.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=9094330

--> Online gangs? That is what criminal scammers and online crooks are called now? Beware of buying drugs on the Internet.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575286,00.html

--> Drivers in Holland will be charged tax per mile - Public transportation and taxis are exempt. Just you wait, it will happen here, too. It will start in the big city boroughs: New York, Chicago, San Jose, Los Angeles... just you wait.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/11/13/o.what.friends.are.for/?imw=Y

--> What are friends for? Are you balcony or basement?

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN1646199920091116

--> Some Nintendo Wii games qualify as actual exercise. Couch potato is the source of obeisity? I thought that eating too much was the cause according to recent studies.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33965315/ns/business-personal_finance/

--> The Obama giveth, and The Obama taketh away. Your tax credit may turn into a tax burden.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/relaxation-drinks-sending-wrong-message/story?id=9075829

--> Don't drink to relax; find and eliminate or reduce the source of your stress.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/16/2128498.aspx

--> Comments: Freeyourmindandyourasswillfollow in response to T.B.. What does T.B. stand for? Thoughtless Boob apparently.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/shrinking_the_feds_balance_sheet.php

--> The Federal Reserve's balance sheet as a % of GDP... Please correct me if I am wrong, but does that mean that The Fed owns about 16% of the United States private economy? Too big to fail? How about we bust up the Fed so if it tanks it doesn't take the rest of the US with it.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/body-shaniya-davis-found-alongside-north-carolina-highway/story?id=9095622&page=2

--> Little girl found dead. Her mother should be executed. The man who kidnapped her should be executed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111601827.html

--> The UK has a problem with Islamic extremists inside their prisons. I would imagine the US does as well.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-nuclear17-2009nov17,0,902737.story

--> Iran is further along its nuclear program than we all thought. Iran's refusal to swap their enriched uranium for nuclear power plant fuel rods tells a great deal about what they really want.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125839283643150795.html

--> Household food shortages are on the rise in the US. Instead of buy gold, stocks, bonds, and new huge flatscreen TVs, perhaps we should all be buying canned goods.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125826103009548975.html

--> China highlights Obama's weakness on economics.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9C0NJ4O2.htm

--> This bears investigation! Did Congress abdicate their law making and legislative authority to the PRIVATELY HELD Federal (not really) Reserve?

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AD03Z20091114

--> It seems the cultural changes Hugh Hefner helped create are also the downfall of his iconic magazine.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AF1SU20091116

--> What a crock. With global warming, Russia stands to be the breadbasket of the world as new Siberian farmlands become available. that means HUGE revenues for them as a growing global population clambers for food. Devastation? Not for Russia.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-soldier-mom-deployment,0,316632.story

--> I think that the charges will be dropped if this is really all there is to it. But in my mind, being a single parent should get you a discharge. Becoming pregnant while in service AND IN THEATER should get you discharged. All women entering the military should be required to be on Norplant or some other semi-permanent birth control. There would, of course, be penalties for male soldiers should they inadvertently create life. Wartime is no time to start a family if you are in the military. Family planning should be strict. If a military couple wants to have a child, then one of them needs to leave the service so this sort of thing does not happen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33971846/ns/health-health_care/

--> Once again, they miss the point. If the uninsured are being given different treatment in the ER, then there is something wrong with that hospital, NOT the lack of insurance. It is interesting to note that they didn't give the mortality rates after adjustment for risk factors. Many factors are mentioned but one that is not is that the uninsured are typically poor and my be in a poorer state of health in the first place.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933945,00.html

--> It is a good design so the government will probably cut its funding.

http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2009/11/12/sec-to-be-busy-with-3com-fishiness/

--> HP is about to buy 3-Com. But there may be a hurdle for HP: it seems that 3-Com management is guilty of a little insider trading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/business/economy/13geithner.html?_r=1

--> Two faced. Geithner says the US is committed to a strong dollar. Is that why we keep running up the national debt?

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSLC44347420091112

--> anti-psychotics don't help with most dementia cases. Is this a case of drug company kickbacks to doctors, or are doctors just that uninformed about what drugs are appropriate for psychological conditions.

http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20091109/UPDATES01/91109015

--> The MPAA flexes its muscles and shuts down an entire town's municiple WiFi.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513870490836470.html

--> A fascinating story of Soviet-era math culture.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/12/news/economy/us_gold/index.htm?section=money_topstories

--> Reportedly, the US has the largest stash of gold reserves. It is not enough to get us out of debt.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/11/moh.cookinglight.cardio.foods/index.html

--> Not all carbohydrates are created equal. Make sure you are getting the right ones.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/11/caesarean.section.risks/index.html

--> C-Sections are not without risk. Women should be well informed before electing to have one for vanity's sake.

http://living.health.com/2009/05/18/health-risks-mid-life-pregnancy/

--> Women should NOT have kids after 40. Period. If you are over 40 and want kids: adopt.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574389,00.html

--> Good news for women who have had mastectomies: you may soon be able to regrow your breasts.

http://www.cnn.com//2009/LIVING/wayoflife/11/11/o.too.much.communication/index.html

--> Social media may be distancing you from your real friends.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/12/fixing.your.facebook/index.html

--> Fix up your Facebook

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/11/michele.bachmann/index.html

--> ""Polarizing people are double-edged swords, and I think that on balance ... she's hurting the Republican Party," says veteran Democratic consultant Jennifer Palmieri." Of COURSE you would say she is hurting the Republicans: she is a clear threat tot he current Democrat power balance. The truth is that the REPUBLICANS are hurting the Republicans since they are trying to out Democrat the Democrats. That is NOT what their party base wants. Kudos to CNN for giving such an enlightening look at one of the new Conservative leaders out there trying to drag the USA out of the Liberal hole it has dug.

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=315734&pgid=rss

--> Some stocks are still paying dividends. Some are paying better than others.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111130944.htm

--> Stars low in lithium are more likely to have planets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104140812.htm

--> New microscope can view individual atoms.

---
A lie about economics: prices go up. Truth: prices don't go up; the purchasing power of your money goes DOWN. Are things becoming more expensive? Then your money is worth less. Calculations of "price adjusted for inflation" really means a determination for how much value your monetary unit has lost.
---

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/6546579/Barrick-shuts-hedge-book-as-world-gold-supply-runs-out.html

--> You have heard of "peak oil". But, have you heard of "peak gold". It seems the ability to mine gold has fallen. The gold supply just isn't readily available in the ground anymore. Many comments are good/funny.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/11/12/troop_decision_remains_stuck_i.html?wprss=44

--> We have to hurry on health care reform. We have to hurry on stimulus. We have to hurry for an Olympic bid. Why is there no rush when it comes to giving respect to the fallen (a "shout out" has priority? Shoutout? Isn't that gangbanger/hip hop speak?)? Why is there no rush to support the troops again and again? What are, where are Obama's priorities? He is worried about corruption in Afghanistan so won't address the war effort. But he'll rush a plan to health care but not address our OWN corruption?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125799009185344567.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

--> TARP... the US was sold a bill of goods. It now no longer resembles ANYTHING of what it was intended to correct. Could it be that the "troubled assets" were never a problem in the first place? Could it be that there was never an emergency large enough to warrant such an extravagance? We should investigate the Federal Reserve.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33808761/ns/travel-tips/

--> It sounds like health insurance is about to get much more expensive since now they will be (kinda) required to provide coverage for you while you travel abroad. If you travel internationally, buy a medical insurance policy that includes trip interruption, doctor, emergency, hospital, and medical evacuation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLC546596._CH_.2400

--> Landmines are indeed a problem. But why can't one be designed that has a finite lifespan? Say, some sort of mechanism or method that after so many years after activation, they become inert. The anti-mine folks get their wish that forgotten mines won't kill innocents, and the military retains a powerful deterrent.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/11/why_googles_go.html;jsessionid=3RARUHGUO3GTBQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN

--> Is Google's Go good? Why do we need yet another programming language? What is wrong with Perl, Python, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, and Java?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125805902908245887.html?mod=article-outset-box

--> Obama orders internal review of why flags on Hasan were not picked up earlier. It is beginning to look like Hasan was a Islamic terrorist after all, even if he acted alone.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/how_badly_did_banks_want_to_be_saved.php

--> Too big to fail says that it is too big and needs to be broken up. If the collapse of a single institution could adversely affect the ENTIRE economy, then it is too big and needs to be broken up to mitigate potential damage.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2009/11/hannity-on-tea-party-we-screwed-up.html

--> Sean Hannity screws up and confesses. How often does that happen with the Left when they screw up?

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5AB5JO20091112

--> FaceBook saves face: robbery suspect proves his alibi via a facebook update he made.

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/12/is-obamacare-in-trouble-in-the-senate/

--> Obama care not likely to pass Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111209343.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

--> Obama just has a flighty personality.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-12-mosques-skyscraper-seized_N.htm

--> Federal investigators seize four mosques and a skyscraper. All are accused of funneling money to terrorist organizations.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/11/ap/africa/main5612284.shtml

--> New dinosaur found in South Africa

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110171744.htm

--> Some of the lowliest of creatures may show us how to defeat cancer.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/11/bot-herders-turn-to-the-cloud-for-command-and-control.ars

--> Google's AppEngine being used to control botnets.

http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/11/06/microsoft-lifts-gpl-code-uses-in-microsoft-store-tool/

--> Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool violates GPL2 licensing.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/remote-controlled_bowling_ball.html

--> How to improve your game at the bowling alley.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/programming_an_arduino_without_a_co.html

--> Someone rediscovers cassette tapes for data storage.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110211704.htm

--> A humid house is a sick house.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110071535.htm

--> Electron vapor deposition gets upscaled into a machine that can produce metal parts from a 3D mechanical drawing.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091106/0057036818.shtml

--> "The USA has a lot of lawyers. Heaven has none." I urge every photographer to go out and take photos of famous buildings then post them online as free stock photos. Make sure every computer in the world has a few photos. Saturate the market and then the lawyers can do NOTHING.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/learning-gcompris

--> Educational games for children 2 and up... on Linux.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573622,00.html

--> Seven rules for picking up women. Frankly, going to the gym has helped me pick them up. Gotta keep that back strong! They're heavy. What?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573826,00.html

--> I am just sickened. This is horrific brutality and the perpetrator has shown such gross indifference to life that he cannot possibly be considered human. Kill the monster!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18137-water-purifiers-for-the-poor-fail-to-prove-their-worth.html

--> Clean water is important and ceramic filters are the ones that seem to work. However, food is a stronger vector for pathogens.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18138-backward-star-aint-from-around-here.html

--> Omega Centauri is guilty of a stellar traffic violation. It is headed in the wrong direction.

http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/200911101155DOWJONESDJONLINE000345_univ.xml

--> Why do we keep handing the government more and more control when it has proven again and again that it cannot do the jobs it currently has? The government has already ruined GM, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and created the conditions that have lead tot he greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. How is giving Washington even MORE control going to help?

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/10/sapolskys-outstandin.html

--> The uniqueness of Humans.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/11/congress.term.limits/index.html

--> Term limits... definitely time to revisit this issue. People tend to treat politics as a career path rather than the civic service it should be.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/10/health.care/index.html

--> The health care reform bill may miss Obama's timeline... here's to hoping that is true on a permanent basis.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573989,00.html

--> She only stops sneezing when she sleeps. Poor thing!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/10/facebook.groups.hacked/index.html

--> Your Facebook group can be hijacked. Control your info!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/11/lhc.large.hadron.collider.beam/index.html

--> The LHC is about ready to resume operation. The world is doomed! Let's have cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDFT0Yv_hg

--> Are sme crop circles actually designs for a machine?

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/459796/Collapse/trailers

--> Trailer for the documentary movie "Collapse". The global economy WILL fail one day... it just needs a trigger. "Nothing grows forever. There's a cycle: birth, growth, maturation, decline, and death."

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/11/is-washington-making-unemployment-worse/

--> The Government is making unemployment worse. Duh.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/11/gop-takes-gallup-lead-harbinger-or-outlier.html

--> Democrats had better pay attention to the people if they want the people to reelect them.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Health/witnesses-california-gang-rape-scared-call-police/story?id=9054150

--> Silence keeps the violence, I always say. Okay. I don't always say that; I just now made it up, but it is still true. Sorry, kid. But not reporting a crime makes you an accessory to that crime. Your silence aided a criminal act and you should be held partly accountable for that act. As for the rapists, cut their balls off. Give them a sex change and toss them into supermax. Let them be raped.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8257359&page=1

--> Oh dear LORD! It is possible to, and legal to, get a lap dance from a TEENAGER (under 18) in Rhode Island... in a BAR no less. She was sixteen!?!?! My God! They are CHILDREN!!

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6088041&page=1

--> Oregon has the largest per capita number of strip clubs. Perhaps the state should rename itself to "Organ". Get it? "organ"? Now, this is funny... it is also known as "The Beaver State". As in... oh, never mind.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33830416/ns/today-today_relationships/

--> What a stupid conclusion in this survey. I buy my own underwear and she buys her own. Looking for anew partner? Ha! I am just looking for some undies that re not torn and are comfortable! My wife has never bought me my underwear. Never. It must be a British thing.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583937/ns/today-today_relationships/

--> What a hassle. I hate when that happens. I just wanted to see the latestknickers Knicks score. That's all! Good to know I am healthy... well, except when I am sick.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32191225/ns/today-today_relationships/

--> No. That wouldn't work. If you unfriend your spouse on Facebook, then they are sure to take it as a slight.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31906226/ns/health-behavior/

--> Love is apparently not the glue that binds a marriage.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31806658/ns/health-sexual_health/

--> Women, having trouble reaching the big "O"? Practice, practice, practice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7090300.stm

--> Curvy women are smarter. I always thought going after the curvy ones was an intelligent choice on my part. Now I have proof.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8352001.stm

--> Steven Tyler is no longer in Aerosmith. Aerosmith now looking for a new front man. Anyone want to be an aging rock star?

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=479

--> It is not about hate. It s about love. And lots of it... frequently.

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/arret.jpg

--> Yeah. It's like that.

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/jacques.jpg

--> For all of us technological hermits.

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/knees.jpg

--> So true

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/balloon.jpg

--> You cannot legislate morality.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573405,00.html

--> More and more women are watching porn, but how much and what is still under investigation. The data is unreliable.

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=314967&pgid=rss

--> In a hedge against a weakening dollar and inflation, some mutual funds are moving into gold bullion.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18127-stone-age-humans-crossed-sahara-in-the-rain.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

--> Stone-aged Man crossed the Sahara forests to get to the other side. What?! The Sahara is a desert? Well.. yeah... NOW it is, but 120,000 years ago it had trees and bushes.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091109121117.htm

--> Melting icecaps are creating phytoplankton blooms that are sequestering carbon.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/new_propeller_bot_board_from_parall.html

--> An excellent robot starter kit!

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/10/science-fiction-from-1.html

--> The English speaking countries of the world don't have a monopoly on science fiction.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/giant_gramophone_plays_the_earth.html

--> This is just wacky. A church has a giant gramophone that is used to play the earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/09/balloon.irpt/index.html?eref=rss_tech

--> Engineering students' balloon pops at 90,000 feet.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/09/sears.obama.marriage/

--> Sage advice on children and marriage.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/10/us/AP-US-Miss-California.html?_r=1

--> Lesson learned: if you don't want sexy pictures of you being made public, DON'T MAKE THEM.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/10/pirates.defence/

--> Defend against pirates.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=620001199.blog

--> Google is offering free WiFi in 32 airports until January 15. Sadly, Phoenix is not on the list.

http://geek.net/press/sourceforge-inc-changes-its-name-to-geeknet-inc/

--> Sourceforge, Inc. is now Geeknet, Inc. The Sourceforge website remains.

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-clone-hard-drives-clonezilla

--> Clone hard drives in Linux using Clonezilla.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33824486/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

--> A teen commits suicide at a gun show and now the parents are suing the event promoters and sponsors. I think a little introspection is needed by the parents to see who is to blame for allowing a suicidal teen to attend a gun show and the resulting death.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/10/this-week-in-conservative-media-when-it-comes-to-fort-hood-why-ask-why.aspx

--> I note that Newsweek columnist, Eve Conant, is not asking why, but is instead reporting on people reporting the news. Newsweek navel gazing at its finest.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5A93VV20091110

--> I am pleased he was honored. It is a truly superior tool and he deserves the recognition. Congratulations, Mikhail Kalashnikov. He is correct: the use of the AK-47 for nefarious purposes is indeed the fault of politicians and criminals, not the inventor.

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/tsas_version_of_plainclothes.php

--> Once again, the TSA appears to be clueless.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/10/cal-thomas-hasan-muslims-military-political-correctness/

--> "Sun Tzu famously wrote that all war is deception. But it takes two to deceive and the United States is behaving like a willing partner." ... Terrorism, one terrorist at a time. Time and the law favors the terrorists.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1937150,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

--> North and South Korea have a naval skirmish a week before Obama is due to arrive.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1936777,00.html

--> [Scottish accent] They put something in the food to make you crave it fortnightly! [/Scottish accent]

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1935698,00.html

--> Facebook games are a great way for you to get scammed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9047492

--> Vatican investigates implications of alien life. So? The Bible concerns things that are Earthly in nature. The presence (or lack) of extra terrestrial life has no context in Christianity. The article seem more of a slight against Catholicism in its endless recalling of the number of times The Church has been an antagonist against science in the past.

http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/

--> 56% of people (and rising) believe that Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction. There is an inflection point for April 16-20. What happened then to change people's minds? Then again, how much of it is Obama, and how much is Congress?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-ap-poll-method,0,479811.story

--> How the poll was conducted

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_counting_immigrants_1

--> The purpose of the US census is to take count of the citizens of the US. The census is used in redistricting of political lines. If you count illegal immigrants, then what does that do to the political districts? No wonder the Dems blocked a bill requiring the census to ask citizenship! Don't believe for a moment that the separate survey will be used to modify the numbers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/radicals.mosque/?imw=Y

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5A520220091106

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2009/11/link-and-zelda-team-up-for-first-time-in-spirit-tracks/1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110601208.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE5A52BS20091106?virtualBrandChannel=11604

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/happiness.simple.joy/index.html?eref=rss_health

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572509,00.html

--> an unexceptional man becomes a mass murderer. Why would he kill his fellow soldiers? Oh... Psychiatrist. Those guys are usually nuts. Takes a nut case to know a nutcase so maybe that is why they get into the whole psychology thing.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572505,00.html

--> It is quite clear in The Bible that church leaders should have only ONE wife. But then The Bible has little to do with situations like this. This is a case of a cult of personality.

http://succeedblog.org/

--> Nothing succeeds like succes. This is the anti-fail blog.

http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksan04ek0W1qa9i3bo1_500.jpg

--> Oh my. Uh. That chair might actually be comfortable.

http://succeedblog.org/photo/1280/219404173/1/tumblr_krvxq8SSJB1qa9i3b

--> Succeed! Best jack-o-lantern EVAH!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/phys-ed-why-doesnt-exercise-lead-to-weight-loss/

--> Aerobic exercise doesn't make you lose weight. But what about anerobic (weight and resistance) training - replacing fat with muscle. Your weight won't change, but your size will. However, exercise is required to keep fat off of you once you have lost it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427331.000-extraterrestrial-rafting-hunting-offworld-sea-life.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

--> What lies below extraterrestrial waters? NASA intends to find out.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091108214924.htm

--> Out of chaos, order. Planetary systems have a rough start.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=nasa-funded-monkey-radiation-experi-2009-11-06

--> Let's not use monkeys. Let's use death row prisoners who have exhausted their appeals!

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20080317d

--> One of the things that bothers me about the anti-gun people is that they refuse to recognize their hypocrisy. They are all for sex education so that promiscuous sex becomes safer, but guns? No. Don't teach about them! Just ban them! Many more lives have been ruined by irresponsible sex than by guns. Perhaps sex should be banned. Wouldn't that solve another Liberal complaint about too many people? Ban sex, make everyone own a gun, don't teach gun safety, and soon you'll have a shrinking population. Problem solved!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/06/rare-virus-poses-new-threat-to-troops/

--> Ebola-like virus in Afghanistan.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/11/congressmen-lose-big-bucks-in.html

--> Per capita, more Congress members are millionaires that the people they represent. Many didn't come into Washington as millionaires, but will leave that way. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Time for a change... Time to air out The House.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-color-of-sin

--> Good is white. Bad is black.It is not just a metaphor. But why?

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/make_presents_the_inductor.html

--> All about inductors. Well, maybe not "all".

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/court-gets-torrent-full-about-linux

--> bitTorrent is a legitimate tool. Because some people are misusing it, certain copyright holders are trying to ban its use. So, along that line, if a hammer is used to commit a crime, we should ban hammers. The pen is mightier than the sword. Let's ban pens!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110901742.html?hpid=moreheadlines

--> Chinese made stroller is recalled due to fingers of children being amputated. Sure... it was made in China. Almost everything is. But what of the design? Who is responsible for the design?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/221842

--> A new asset "bubble" is coming. All it needs is a simple trigger.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110901753.html

--> That is some damning evidence.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/09/intelligence-agencies-deny-sitting-information-fort-hood-shooter/

--> It is good he didn't die. Perhaps some useful information can be gotten from him. At the very least, evidence needs to be collected for his prosecution.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/senator-accuses-anti-gun-group-exploiting-fort-hood-massacre/

--> James Brady is a traitor to America. My support will go Senator Burr. The Brady organization is acting shamefully.

http://interactive.foxnews.com/presidential-poll

-- Comparing Bush to Obama: if you discount the 9/11 effect, Bush is tacking slightly higher than Obama in approval ratings. Republicans seem to track with Independents, but with a large point spread. Democrats seem to track the reciprocal of Obama, but with a point spread. Why can't I compare to Pres. Clinton or to Bush in his second term?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573365,00.html

--> It may be that the sentences were too harsh. Life in prison is a long time for a 13 year old. How many adults get sentenced to life for a single rape? I can't help but feel that there is more to these (former) boys' stories.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573048,00.html

-> Hugo Chavez is an ass. The presence of US military bases has historically been shown to create GREATER regional stability. If there ever is a war, it is going to be one started by Chavez.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/more-views-from-germany.html

--> Andre Sullivan is a naive ideologue.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> Missing Persian army found... probably.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26972493/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> Bowl with earliest known reference to Christ found.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33676044/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> Antarctica has a lot of viruses.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33796525/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> Don't put up just any old photo of yourself on Facebook. Choose carefully.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110501612.html

--> Wow. The Yanomamo have been exposed to H1N1. That is impressive. Seven dead out of 28,000. No mention of co-morbidity. Should be easy enough to track down who brought that virus in.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/11/05/celebrity.stalkers/

--> You may be a celebrity stalker. You just need the right celebrity.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/forget-rasterbator-posterazor

--> Make posters from multiple pages in Linux using Posterazor.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/double_pendulum_really_swings.html

--> Double pendulum doesn't seem to stop. A good swing and it will keep swinging for more than nine minutes and make some very cool movements in the process.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/05/productivity-rose-percent-quarter/

--> Productivity rose 9.5% in the third quarter. Productivity is a measure of output per hour of work. With fewer people working and the total hours now being less AND consumers not consuming AND automation, is it any wonder that productivity has risen? More goods are being produced by fewer people. Labor costs are lower... Duh. Would you rather take a reduced wage or be unemployed? This recession is not over.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571691,00.html

--> A house cat has come down with H1N1. Okay... this is just getting freaky now. What horsemen are we on? We have war and pestilence. Famine? Where is famine? Has he left the gate?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571926,00.html

--> A baby with a melting brain has been saved by good research and a long shot luck.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125738375151929771.html

--> Typical. The government screws things up, so their solution is to give more control to the government. They screw up Fannie and Freddy and help the auto industry tank (Ford posts a profit but didn't take the money). Now the government wants centralized control over the ENTIRE financial sector. We are so doomed.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=jurassic-tyrannosaur-fossil

--> T. Rex is older than we thought... by 10 million years

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=will-e-t-look-like-us

--> Speculation over if ET would look, more or less, like humans - bipedal, etc.

http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=314765&pgid=rss

--> The time for estate planning is NOW

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/144252/Man-In-the-Middle-Vulnerability-For-SSL-and-TLS?from=rss

--> Https is not as secure as you think.

http://www.links.org/?p=780

--> More on https and ssl

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/04/aspirin.risk.heart.attacks/index.html

--> don't take low-dose aspirin if you haven't already had a heart attack.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/tea-party-activists-swarm-capitol-hill-can-they-kill-health-care-bill.html

--> Tea party in D.C.. TEA- Taxed Enough Already. Wish I could have gone.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33654026/ns/technology_and_science-security/

--> Google takes a big step toward ensuring your privacy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125743289932030933.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

--> Fannie Mae will help the economy by not tossing people out on the street. It will allow bankrupt borrowers to rent their homes instead. If they couldn't pay their mortgage, how can they make rent?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571665,00.html

--> Tequila is a very sophisticated drink. No. Really.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/221210

--> And soon Russia will fall back into a totalitarian state. Faith in individual freedom is giving way to faith in the Kremlin. Isn't it interesting that when humans reflect on the past, we tend to gloss over the hardships and romanticize how hard life was? Isn't it also funny how what is happening in Russian seems to parallel what is happening in the US? Orange Revolutionaries are our TEA Partiers and 9/12 groups. And ACORN and the MSM is there to fight them. Obama wants to create an armed civilian guard do defend against what? What is the threat that the FBI, police, and National Guard cannot handle? Yes... both countries are falling toward tyranny. Who will be there to save the US? Let's not forget the indoctrination of the youth.

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/

--> You thought I was joking about the youth groups the Obama power base is forming? Parallel with Russia, I tell ya!

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5A43XE20091105

--> Great Britain is slowly forgetting an important political figure from their history: Guy Fawkes. Halloween is starting to take root and trick-or-treating is supplanting fireworks and burning effigies. Bon fire comes from burning of food waste? No. I believe it comes from Japan's O'Bon festival where fires are lit to guide the souls of ancestors home. It is a major holiday there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33656554/ns/technology_and_science-space/

--> In the Milky Way, there are over 10 billion stars that might be suitable for harboring planets with intelligent life. We may not be as alone as we feel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/technology/internet/06net.html?_r=1

--> "...any decision to sever Internet access, an approach championed by several E.U. countries seeking to clamp down on digital copying of music and movies, must be subject to a legal review." Europe has this right. Don't expect the US to follow suit. Big Media (MPAA, RIAA, etc.) and other supporters of the DMCA hate this idea.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_the_words_of_the_song_Sarasponda_mean

--> A song from grade school.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

--> Not good. Definitely not good.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-restore-ctrl-alt-backspace-ubuntu

--> Restore CTRL-ALT-BKSP in Ubuntu 9.10

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572326,00.html

--> Humans aren't the only ones that have sex for pleasure, masturbate, or practice foreplay or prostitution.

http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/05/are-you-a-good-girl/

--> Good girls don't have fun.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20090010962.PGNR.&OS=DN/20090010962&RS=DN/20090010962

--> Got your tinfoil handy? This is a patent application for swine flu. The abstract sound VERY much like what we have going around now.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/sns-200911040801mctnewsservbc-med-swineflu-changes,0,7417435.story

--> Researchers in San Fran do detailed analysis of H1N1 looking for mutations.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/04/transient.global.amnesia/index.html

--> Sex so unforgettable it causes amnesia.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

--> If this international treaty passes, expect the government (in each country) to take full control over the Internet due to various ISPs inability to effectively police. In the USA, if someone is accused of a crime, for example, rape, they can be placed in jail based solely on an accusation and no evidence. Given that precedence, I don't think there is a way around the ISP not shutting off your Internet based solely on a bogus DMCA takedown notice. This treaty seems to be a way to stifle free speech, more than to protect copyright holders. Entire businesses can be shut out of the Net by a simple take down notice. This treaty will, in time, result in a "Great Firewall of China" for the "free" countries of the world and silence the voice of dissidents and that of political free speech.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/

--> Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement text here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

--> ANOTHER Linux kernel bug that will grant root access... but is physical access required or is this exploit workable over the Internet? It sounds like local access is required.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18111-skin-helps-heartbeat-creep-into-consciousness.html

--> Your skin helps you notice your heartbeat. Skin is necessary to your sense of self-awareness.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-success-breeds-success

--> It is well established that positive feedback is more effective than negative. Success is such a form of positive feedback.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103102347.htm

--> Full fat milk will help keep children thin. Duh. It is a healthy fat that the body needs. If it doesn't get it, then the body will crave unhealthy fats and the kids get tubby. Duh.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070808104257.htm

--> Milk builds muscle. Make sure your protein supplement is whey protein isolate and not soy.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-restore-ctrl-alt-backspace-ubuntu

--> Kill the X-server in Ubuntu with three key strokes. Here's how to enable it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/04/house-democrats-set-health-care-vote/

--> The new health care bill is 1900 pages. Do you REALLY think you will get what you want form this? Do you really think your representative knows EXACTLY what they are voting for? How much of this bill is actually related to healthcare reform?

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/04/making-sense-of-maine.aspx

--> Maine votes "yes" on gay marriage. That means that gay marriage is banned.

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSNNYE00274020091104

--> Fed decides to not hike interest rates.

http://www.jalanetipot.com/intestine.html

--> Did you know that unclean intestines can cause constipation, impure blood, bad breath, pimples, menstrual problems, PMT, mental overload, repressed anger, depression, hormonal imbalances, anemia, hepatitis, chronic infections, migraines, asthma, and sinusitis? It's true! I read it on the Internet!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33119145/ns/business-motley_fool/

--> Your dividend stocks may not be paying out as much.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110301179.html

--> The Healthcare debate is about increased government power, not health.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Politics/freedomworks-seeks-shape-gop-future/story?id=8978835

--> Republican... Democrat... Both are bad for the country. Both are socialist self-serving freaks. But on the road to Hell, the Republicans are taking the slow road, and the Democrats are using the express elevator.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571068,00.html

--> Point three. I will never be a "muscular man" due to my sleep disorder.

http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html

--> The power of the cloud. PGP has been cracked by brute force. Guess what folks? Encryption is not about keeping your private information secret forever; it is about keeping your private information secret until the time value of the information has expired. Over time, secrets either become moot, or novelty. Solving a murder that happened 200 years ago is likely to have little impact on modern society, for example, even though it may be interesting to know who did it. Lesson to be learned here: use long passwords and key phrases. Currently, a simple (only the letters a-z) 12 letter password costs $1.5 million to crack. Add the numbers 0-9 to a 12 letter password and the cost goes to almost $76 million. Add in special characters (such as @, #, $,%, etc.) and at 10 characters the cost goes to just shy of $960 million. That assumes legitimate means. But what about a botnet? Cost is cheap then.

http://xkcd.com/538/

--> Beware of a wrench in the works when considering your encryption scheme.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_your.html

--> For most people, physical security is easier than memorizing a password. Write it down and keep it in your wallet.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/derengel/

--> Using hardware for illegal purposes should not mean that the hardware vendor is at fault. Computers are used to commit crimes. Should Dell or HP be sued?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/03/digital.diary.brain.mind/index.html

--> The detailed capture and digitization of our everyday life may not be good for us in the long run.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102171726.htm

--> There is a structure to evolution.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18096-injected-cells-stop-body-from-attacking-self.html

--> Relief for rheumatoid arthritis is on the near horizon.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571426,00.html

--> This isn't helping. They should not take the law into their own hands. There is more than juast a scrap of land at stake here.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/how-to-open-a-bottle-1.html

--> Open a bottle of wine with your SHOE. Apparently, you can be drunk and do this it is so easy.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2009/11/03/ri_gov_to_sign_bill_banning_indoor_prostitution/

--> Prostitution is no longer legal indoors in Rhode Island.

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/11/02/808740_ukraine-hit-by-swine-flu

--> Ukraine hit hard by H1N1

http://www.cytokinestorm.com/

---> Scary scary scary stuff. Influenza can cause a cytokine storm. It is nasty lethal.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atc2o1ijLRno

--> The Federal Reserve, a PRIVATE bank, seems to be in control of the government. A bill that would require an audit of the Fed has been gutted. They continue to operate with impunity and without oversight.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/01/tehran-iran-capital

--> Iran may move its capital from Tehran to someplace else amid earthquake fears.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1116/opinions-great-depression-economy-on-my-mind.html

--> Ron Paul believes that the economy will turn sour again.

http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2009/04/14/five_reasons_why_i_hate_facebo

--> Why I hate Facebook.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5A14N820091102

--> Bill Clinton leave politics alone? Who's he kidding? He loved the job, he says. Yeah. I'll bet he loved it - wink wink. Presidential perks from Monica?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33589356/ns/technology_and_science-science/

--> Leonid meteor shower on Nov. 17 should be a big show.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=8977932

--> a couple of common antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infection can cause birth defects in pregnant women.

http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-health-overhaul-premiums,0,2939252.story

--> Washington must hate the middle class. We keep getting screwed despite their assurances to the contrary. The latest iteration of the health care bill gives a $10500 kick in the wallet-side seat of the pants.