What’s this — a Republican Congressman from Texas who is willing to buck the trend? Mr. Paul has stood out from the Republican field for his opposition to the war in Iraq. In the speech he argues that the fight against terrorism is threatening American democracy. “The American Republic is in remnant status,” he says. [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2007
“GALLUP: Bush Finally Tops Nixon…”
“…in unpopularity.” The only real surprise to me is that it took him this long to do it.
“Dutch Museum Hunts Elusive Crab Lice”
“The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody — anybody — to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.” Apparently a style of bikini wax (the “Brazilian,” which removes practically all of a woman’s public hair) might be killing them off. “‘When the bamboo forests [...]
“Scepticism over cyber-jihad rumours”
I guess we’ll see tomorrow whether cyber-jihadists have gotten a clue.
“P2P users buy more music — Canadian govt study”
As I’ve maintained since before the millennium, downloaded music isn’t what’s killing the music industry.
“Why Vote?”
On the Dilbert Blog today, Scott Adams mentioned a fascinating New York Times article about why people vote. It’s worth reading in it’s entirety, but the executive summary is that many people seem to vote in order to be seen voting, not because they think their vote will make any difference whatsoever. The more observant [...]
“Ice Cream Ramen”?!?
I like ramen. There’s an authentic Japanese ramen place near where a couple of our friends live, and any time we go visit them, we always try to stop in there. But this… well, it’s just a little over the top.
“Japanese women could be “safer” at night by wearing vending-machine disguises”
From the WTF? department: be sure to check out the picture on this page. Very carefully.
Backups, backups, backups!
A friend of mine just had hard drive troubles and lost all his data. He had a backup of the important stuff on a DVD-RW — but he’d just re-used the backup disk for something else because he was low on them, and had been planning to buy more to back it up again this [...]
“Beam me up, Lang and Appleyard”
Photonic tweezers for electronics and microbiology… Star Trek: Voyager’s holographic doctor will have all of his tools available once someone invents him.