Glub, glub, glub
Intelligent Design meets a broken faucet: A Plumbing Parable. Be sure to read the comments, too.
Archive of entries posted on January 2005
Amazing
Whatever I think of the whole Bush policy in Iraq, I can’t help but admire the courage of those Iraqis who came out and voted yesterday. The turnout puts American voting patterns to shame, especially when you consider nobody is blowing up polling booths in the US.
Sights
I was heading onto the freeway yesterday afternoon. The on-ramp I took curves right past an old graveyard (next to Aloha Stadium, for those familiar with Hawai’i). The gravestones are nearly buried by unmown grass; the place is obviously completely uncared for. It’s a shame. The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones …
No on Gonzales, part 2
Human Rights First has a flash video of the reasons all of us should oppose Judge Gonzales. They also suggest text for a letter you can send to your Senators. You can find Senate contact information here. Human Rights link found at Body and Soul.
Marine chopper crash
That helicopter crash yesterday in Iraq was transporting members of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment, USMC. 27 of the 31 dead were from Kaneohe MCAS, on the windward side of Oahu. Kaneohe is a pretty small community. Most people who live there are either connected to the base or work “over the hill” in Honolulu. …
Super Ad Bowl XXXIX
If you plan to live-blog the Super Bowl, your response to the ads may be more widely read than you anticipated. Internet research companies plan to measure the “watercooler effect” of Super Bowl XXXIX ads by capturing sentiments as they bubble up within the loose collection of diarylike personal Web sites collectively known as the …
No on Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales doesn’t like foreigners much, it appears: Alberto Gonzales has asserted to the Senate committee weighing his nomination to be attorney general that there’s a legal rationale for harsh treatment of foreign prisoners by U.S. forces. In more than 200 pages of written responses to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who plan to …
“Personal?” “Private?”
Tom Toles has a nice cartoon about the Administration’s sudden dislike of the word “privatization” with respect to Social Security. Funny, it was just fine a few weeks ago.
Dust to energy?
Solar cells built from lunar dust? Now that’s a thought. Four years ago, Alex Freundlich and his colleagues at the University of Houston in Texas came up with the idea of getting robotic rovers to build solar cells entirely out of lunar dust or “regolith” (New Scientist print edition, 24 June 2000). This fine, grey …
Adjustments
Has anyone ever bought Microsoft software from this outfit or any other discounter? I find I need MS-Office, but I really don’t want to pay $300-$400 if I can legitimately get it cheaper elsewhere. I forgot to mention that the new machine I bought on Tuesday came with a keyboard and a mouse. I also …