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- This hour's show is called Tad's Cabin Door (Made In Alaska Music). The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- I finished the fluxbox intro article that I was planning on putting out several weeks ago. I'll have it up on Mon. so to spread out the articles I post. I tend to do most of them towards the end of the week, as do most of the rest of us uptime authors. Anyway, I'm going to break the cycle and hold release for a few more days since it's been waiting weeks anyway. |
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- Q&A: Microsoft Corp. v. Lindows. |
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- I promote the education of individual users above simply fixing their problems in cases where I don't know the answer off the top of my head and the user is knowledgeable enough to used google. Case in point: I had a user who was not able to open adobe photoshop and was give a lengthy error. It struck me as something that probably was common (as most errors are). So emailed her back enouraging her to search google for portions of the error message. |
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- Die internationale Konkurrenzfähigkeit des Wissenschaftsstandorts Berlin-Brandenburg hängt entscheidend von den Arbeitsbedingungen ab, die die Forscher hier vorfinden. Derzeit liegt noch... |
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- Support Insight Time to learn some new acronyms! Heard of LAMP? How about Project Leopard? Surely you know all about the OSSI? The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced the formation of the Open Government Interoperability Standard (OGIS) working... |
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- Two reports this week warn broadcasters to acknowledge the potential growth of PVR technology and the ramifications it will have on current business models. Internet Advertising Report reports. Steve Hall posts. [summary] |
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- Adam Kalsey's Word count plugin for Movable Type seemed to be just the thing I needed to put a (2540 more words...) link in my index page to describe how much more text there was in the entry. However, MTWordCount only shows the total count of the words in both the entry and the extended entry. Not what I needed. So, since my new mantra is 'let's see if I can code it... |
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- Evite, the popular online invitation service, aims to compete head-on in the rapidly growing social networking market, by transforming itself a community site with public... |
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- Prosecutor describes car in which teen sniper suspect was arrested as 'killing machine'; Defense motion rejected ahead of closing arguments in Muhammad case |
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- First snow flurries reported in Garrett, Allegany counties |
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- Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry on Thursday shrugged off the dismissal of his campaign manager and the subsequent departure of two senior staffers, saying his campaign "will be better off moving ahead with people who want to be there." |
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- The Towers of Hanoi, an Austrian true-life fotonovela about a guy who goes into a bank and changes 50 Euros for dollars, then the dollars for Euros, then back again, und so weiter, until only chump-change remains. ... Link... |
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- MOJOKNOWS is an SMS based question and answer site. They claim to be the Google of SMS. You send them a question, they send you an answer and pay per question. When you ask a question, the number of question marks you put at the end determine the priority of the question and result in a faster (and more expensive) answer. A nice little feature. |
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- Those whose images of Southern California are still influenced by our strong local history of brutally won "industrial freedom" may be surprised to learn that L.A. is bucking national trends by becoming an increasingly unionized town, riddled with various strikes. Public sector bus mechanics have been walking picket lines for a month, screwing over 500,000 working class commuters and making street traffic roughly 37 percent worse. More popularly, 70,000 big-chain supermarket employees have been on a combo strike/lockout since Oct. |
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- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" |
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memory (Nov 13 2003 16:58 GMT) - Researchers ID enzyme that turns fleeting experience into lasting memory [Science Blog] |
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- Dave Winer strips down Scripting News. "Weblogs have gotten so jammed full of crap like rolls of blogs, rolls of things I'm subscribed to, old software products, old friends, even dead people, you name it, lots of old stuff. So I decided to see what it would be like if I could have even more old crap, but not put it on my weblog. " [Scripting News] That's sort of what I'm moving toward, slowly, with my redesign. Blogs have started looking like race cars, with so many stickers slapped on them it's hard to tell what color they are underneath. |
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- Dave Winer strips down Scripting News. "Weblogs have gotten so jammed full of crap like rolls of blogs, rolls of things I'm subscribed to, old software products, old friends, even dead people, you name it, lots of old stuff. So I decided to see what it would be like if I could have even more old crap, but not put it on my weblog. " [Scripting News] That's sort of what I'm moving toward, slowly, with my redesign. Blogs have started looking like race cars, with so many stickers slapped on them it's hard to tell what color they are underneath. |
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- This is a table about Weighted Average Direct Slaughter Cattle Prices |
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- This is a table about National Daily Direct Slaughter Cattle |
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- This is a table about Daily Summary of Slaughter Cattle Prices |
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- This is a table about Opening USDA Hog Market Comments |
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- This is a table about Opening Livestock Cash Market Comments |
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- This is a table about South Carolina Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- This is a table about Negotiated Prices for Cows and Bulls |
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- This is a table about Committed and Delivered Slaughter Cattle |
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- This is a table about U.S. Gulf Export Bid Prices |
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- After a tough day of human sacrifices at the altar, the Incan priests and worshipers at Machu Picchu probably just wanted to head home for some down-time and shut-eye. Just where they went to wash the blood off of their hands, kick back and relax has been something of a mystery - until now. The nearby "bedroom-community" of Llactapata has been discovered by an Anglo-American team looking out the window of their Cessna airplane with an infra-red camera that detected the heat from the stone buildings hidden by the jungle cannopy of vegetation. "This is the first time that infra-red cameras have been used in this way to find lost Inca sites," said expedition leader Hugh Thomson, who has just returned after four months in Peru. "We feel it is one of the most important finds for many years. |
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- Remember my comments from a few days ago that what this country needs is a good five-cent cigar, er, french fries made from a genetically engineered potato that has a mutant form of the cholesterol protein in it? That may not be as far out as it sounds. Dr Manju Sharma, head of the Indian Government's Department of Biotechnology, said the new 2.5 %-protein-by-weight potato, or so-called protato, would be given free to millions of poor children at Indian government schools to try to reduce the problem of malnutrition in that country. The protato was created by adding a gene from the protein-rich amaranth plant. |
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- Hey, the commercials were right - good things DO happen when you "fall into the GAP"! From a University of Arizona press release: University of Arizona astronomers have used a new technique called nulling interferometry to probe a dust disk around a young nearby star for the first time. They not only confirmed that the young star does have a protoplanetary disk - the stuff from which solar systems are born - but discovered a gap in the disk, which is strong evidence of a forming planet. "It's very exciting to find a star that we think should be forming planets, and actually see evidence of that happening," said UA astronomer Philip Hinz. |
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- In a potentially serious blow to future lunar colonization efforts, new radar measurements of the poles of Earth's moon show no signs of water there in the permanent shade and shadow of deep craters. Such radar measurements by the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico had previously discovered polar ice deposits on distant Mercury, but similar signals from our Moon are absent. Lunar ice had been suspected from indirect radiation measurements in the 1990s by NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter. At a distance of tens of miles above the lunar poles, that spacecraft detected high levels of hydrogen. The most probable source of such hydrogen was believed at that time to be shaded water in the form of surface and sub-surface ice. |
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- In the not too distant future, your doctor may not ask you to take a blood test, but instead merely ask to check your breath. As NBC news (and many others) are reporting, a New Jersey company called Menssana Research Inc. has created a device much like a Breathalyzer (used for detecting blood-alcohol level), which is sensitive enough to detect more than 200 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a person's breath. Researchers have long suspected that some of these breath VOCs may be markers of disease, but confirming this has been difficult because the concentrations of most breath VOCs are extremely low and even after detecting them with sensitive laboratory instruments and analyzing them, nobody understood what they signified. But Menssana Research claims to have overcome these hurdles. |
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- Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has spoken out frequently about the potential benefits of biotechnology. Last week he opened a two-day conference "GMO: Threat or Hope" at Vatican City by acknowledging the charged nature of the debate and the implications of genetically engineered products on the future of the world. The meeting was widely seen as paving the way for upcoming Papal endorsement of genetically modified organisms (GMO) as a way of feeding the world's poor and hungry. The meeting was not without controversy. |
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