Better content through Zip programs? Scientists have found a technique for identifying patterns within compressed files. Here’s a subjective list of websites worth investigating, brought to you by Time magazine. (Link courtesy of NP News.) If you find yourself trying to fight irrational arguments with reason, don’t feel alone. And you could fight shoplifters with …
Rolling Stone is changing its format; I haven’t read it in years, but for a while in the late 1970s I was a subscriber. I was reading it in LAX once at the gate, and was so absorbed that I missed a flight. Fortunately, that was in the days when you could walk across the …
These sentences fit my definition of righteous rage perfectly. “We are angry that these spiritual arbiters are unyielding when the ‘sins’ belong to us, not to them. We have relatives whose lives were choked because they could not get annulments — and thus remarry in the church — after their spouses betrayed and abandoned them. …
Dog safe! Workers in microwave popcorn plant suffer from a lung disease usually found in people exposed to toxic irritants from spills. Less of a downer, perhaps; you know all those powers that Captain America and his ilk had? Well, many of them are in engineering labs right now.
Where must civil liberties step aside for public health? That’s the subject of this commentary from the NEJM. “These business plans are like the cathedrals of medieval Europe…” So says a U of Maryland researcher attempting to document the dot-com boom/bust from the perspective of the cube-dwellers. Oh, and dammit! I told you not to …
Tom Friedman has some choice words for just about every important player in the Israeli/Palestinian standoff today. Annoyance is also the watchword in this story about the seeming reluctance of the Administration to name a new FDA Commissioner, 15 months after taking office. The Swedes have an active FDA, apparently; a study recently presented to …
Advertising gives weird messages sometimes. The Lipitortm commercial showing the model tripping? The implication is that wearing a size 6 dress causes high cholesterol levels. There’s a Country Crocktm ad which clearly implies there is no need for risky, expensive IVF procedures; just eat the product; you’ll be pregnant in no time. Advertising in different …
On Earth Day, a couple of items caught my eye. I sincerely hope this remark by a Republican pollster comes back to bite him in the backside: “The environment resonates most strongly with the beats, the backpackers and the bangles crowd.” In my view that typifies the arrogance of this Administration, although he may not …
Here are some thirty-year old memories to share: I lived in Japan from 1972-1974 as a 22-year old kid with two years of college behind him, at a time that was later called the “hollowing-out” of the military. I worked in the Naval Communications Station at Yokosuka, about 50 miles south of Tokyo. The majority …
Huh? Search for blue+jays+condominium+sex??? Here?? Why?? More zoological news, or investment news: care to buy an option on wildebeest, hippopotami, or warthogs? Yep, the Zambezi Valley Hunt Exchange makes a market in options on government contracts to hunt in that garden spot of political comity, Zimbabwe. Here’s a science project for all of you who …