Up until now I had flat out refused to post anything about the aquittal of the Pied Pedophile. But since everyone keeps emailing me, I'll say this...freedom is not free. Clearly, if you have enough dough to circumvent the justice system, you can get off scott free! So kids, you better get your stacks up. Sean Bell dies and R. Kelly goes free...go figure.
In the words of Dr. Cornel West...
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I had been following the blog crumbs of Michelle Kemper Brownlow on her personal blog, My Semblance of Sanity,(an amazingly talented artist who has a passion for cancer kids) for the last few months and when she shouted for design help on her up-and-coming blog, I was only too happy to raise my...
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Moronic Nonsense at it's finest. FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses (via Threat Level from Wired.com) The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning.On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a controversial National Security Letter (.pdf) on the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle, asking for records about one of the library's registered users, asking for the user's name, address and activity on the site.The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive's lawyers, fought the NSL, challenging its constitutionality in
FACT: Apple just debuted a new commercial over the weekend for the iPod, featuring the song "Shut Up and Let Me Go." FACT: Barack Obama continues to distance himself from the comments Reverend Jeremiah Wright made over the weekend. Coincidence?
From the guardian:
“Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.
The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The [...]
First child: refused to breastfeedSecond child: wants nothing but the boobFirst child: first tooth erupted at 8 months oldSecond child: first tooth erupted at 4 1/2 months old...yesterdayI was expecting another three months of gentle gumming before having to deal with a tooth chomping down on my nipple. And what a sharp little tooth it is, too. Razor sharp.Ouch.
First child: refused to breastfeedSecond child: wants nothing but the boobFirst child: first tooth erupted at 8 months oldSecond child: first tooth erupted at 4 1/2 months old...yesterdayI was expecting another three months of gentle gumming before having to deal with a tooth chomping down on my nipple. And what a sharp little tooth it is, too. Razor sharp.Ouch.
This simulation would be similar to the one in “The Matrix,” in which most humans don’t realize that their lives and their world are just illusions created in their brains while their bodies are suspended in vats of liquid. But in Dr. Bostrom’s notion of reality, you wouldn’t even have a body made of flesh. Your brain would exist only as a network of computer circuits.You couldn’t, as in “The Matrix,” unplug your brain and escape from your vat to see the physical world. You couldn’t see through the illusion except by using the sort of logic employed by Dr. Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.
Funny thing about this mommy blog of mine - I can go days without posting anything about Chicky. It's not that I don't want to write anything about her, I do. That kid is an endless source of entertainment, as most toddler are, and that's what makes it so difficult to write anything about her. She's constantly doing something funny or amazing or supremely frustrating that it's hard to keep up.Two, in general, is hard. It's hard for me but, more importantly, it's really hard for Chicky. There's growing pains to contend with, like the two shoe sizes Chicky grew this summer alone. There's new words to learn. There's learning how to put the emPHAsis on the correct sylLAble, and getting phrases just right by repeating them 20 gajillion times in a row. There are social norms (in our house we don't throw blueberries into our drinking cups just to watch the milk splash) and mores (it's really not necessary to announce, loudly, every time someone burps or breaks wind) to ad
I ran across something funny in the WoW General forums today. People are saying Cyclone is overpowered. Cyclone, for those of you who don’t know, is a level 70 Druid spell that can be used as a near worthless crowd control. It stops the enemy from doing anything for six seconds and they are also unable to be attacked. It is not dispellable. Of course, after three times the target becomes immune. The trick to this move is it lasts 6 seconds the first time, then 3, then 1.5 (ish) and then the target is immune. That’s about 10 seconds of crowd control, at best. It’s a crappy move in PvE, and only mildly useful in PvP. Sheep is a far better crowd control technique, even with it’s ability to be dispelled fairly easily. Frost Nova or even the Druids Entangling Roots ability can be much more useful against melee attackers than Cyclone. A shaman totem (sorry, I don’t remember which one, I think earthbind perhaps) can be just as useful in slowing or stop
