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Date: March 13th, 2008

It’s baaaack

13 March, 2008 (19:45) | Political, Technology | No comments

Your program that is. Even though congress effectively de-funded it and banned it back in 2003 in its then current form
On January 16, 2003, Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to suspend the activity of the IAO and the Total Information Awareness program pending a Congressional review of privacy issues involved. A similar measure introduced [...]

Carbon Neutral fuel

13 March, 2008 (19:01) | Environment | No comments

From Science Daily
has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called ™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.
If we are going to be able to get a handle on then we need to be honest with ourselves and admit we just are not going to readily or [...]

Stating the obvious

13 March, 2008 (17:47) | Political | No comments

[tag]Oak Ridge National Laboratories[/tag] just did a study on the extent to which the mass adoption of [tag]plug-in hybrid cars[/tag] will put a strain on the [tag]power grid[/tag]. I can only say - huh? you need a study to determine that (yes I know the study is useful in knowing just how much strain might [...]

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

13 March, 2008 (17:38) | Sociology | No comments

Reports like this are very misleading. There are approximately 10 million female teenagers in the US, widely spread out across different cultural and very diverse geographical segments of society (can you really equate teens in an urban ghetto with teens in a rural farm community?). For this study they chose 838 girls between [...]

My how times change

13 March, 2008 (17:23) | Economics | No comments

When I lived in 30 years ago (OMG it has been that long) the ¥ () was trading at 300 to the $. Now some of the current difference can be traced to the Japanese economy growing stronger but that economy has begun to have problems of its own of late so this is [...]

How To Give your pet a Pill

13 March, 2008 (15:20) | Humor | 3 comments

Pick up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth and Gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding in right hand. As cat Opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and [...]

 

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