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- Local news outlets in the US are tending to put out better pieces on calorie restriction these days. This one from News 24 Houston is a fair example; it's to the point, respectful, and sensible about the science. There is a refreshing absence of hysteria and exaggeration - it seems that the mainstream media now understands the basics of calorie restriction. Getting to this stage took a few years of savvy legwork and press relations by scientists and the folks at the CR Society, but they managed it. |
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- Memorandum, inverted pyramid" This Memeorandum serverside link-analysis engine polls a number of blogs, finds the most frequent links among the most recent sample, then lays out a type of newspaper page with a short initial extract from one of the... |
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- Well, it's been a lovely weekend thus far. Friday night, we abandoned the kids to their Ramen noodles and went... |
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- Catholic churches around the US are responding to a gay-Catholic rights campaign by denying its supporters communion (that's when you eat the wafer, or um, the body of Christ...hot!).Sure, God hates fags. But he hates shrimp too, just about the same. |
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- An EFF press release notes,The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday filed a friend-of-the court brief supporting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a suit challenging the constitutionality of National Security Letters (NSLs). Authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act and issued directly by FBI agents without any court supervision and without a show of probable cause, the letters are used to demand detailed information about people's private Internet communications from ISPs, web mail providers, and other communications service providers. The people whose communications are searched are not notified, and every letter is accompanied by a gag order that prohibits the letter's recipient from ever revealing its existence."Before PATRIOT, the FBI could use National Security Letters only for securing the records of suspected terrorists or spies," said EFF Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow Kevin Bankston. "Now the FBI can use them to get private records about anybody it thinks could be relevant to a terrorism or espionage investigation, without ever having to show probable cause to a judge. |
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- WLAN is insecure, and should be secured by adding a VPN as an additional layer of security, says conventional wisdom. An approach that's still being deployed uses pre-shared keys for ISAKMP phase 1, and XAUTH in phase 2. As has... |
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- ブラジルに渡り46年目 この農場で栽培してい 認定のコーヒーであり 多くは諸外国に販売し コーヒー豆に思いを託 |
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- Betterhumans follows up on the recent work that demonstrates mitochondrial damage to be a cause of aging. The article quotes the lead scientist for this impressive piece of research: "It seems to be a universal phenomenon in mammals that you have this damage to mitochondrial DNA as you get older. But I and many others thought this was just a secondary phenomenon. I think the importance of our paper is that we actually show these mutations can indeed cause several changes associated with aging. |
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In the life (May 31 2004 18:40 GMT) - Went through the various online job listing sites yesterday. Found slightly over a dozen worth applying for, including at least two I applied for long ago that appear to be open again. Anybody who's been in a job hunt recently care to share a decent recordkeeping sheet for jobs found, applied for and responses or further contacts? I'm just looking for a good system to keep track of all this, and am open to suggestion. My current pleasure reading is A History of reading by Alberto Manguel. |
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- A cluster of articles have recently highlighted the growing trend for clean tech investing. Certainly the sector attracts significantly more funding than nanotech, so its no surprise we are starting to see rash of companies claiming to be doing... |
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- CNN reports that Pakistan’s education minister survived a rocket attack outside the southwestern city of Quetta. 18 rockets were fired at Education Minister Zobaida Jalal’s residence, killing one of Jalal’s servants. |
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- No irony, if the interpretation of latest Adminsitration statements are true. This interpretation given by Pat Buchanan, "President Bush has rejoined the realist camp. We are not going deeper in. We are on the way out" seems validated by talk of handovers of sovereignty combined with expressions that we will leave if the new government asks. Politically, the President doesn't... |
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- The recent debates between Volokh and Roberts over Brown v. Bd of Educ. has been interesting. Here is Pat Buchannan's take on it (not surprisingly he is in the Roberts camp). While I do believe the Brown v. |
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- More powerful storms rolled through the Chicago area this weekend. Flooding in the south suburbs forced a number of people from their homes. |
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- Five people were wonded in a shooting outside of a South Side restaurant this morning. |
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- A tutoring center owner faces child porn charges after a video camera was found in a bathroom. |
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- The City of Chicago has closed five beaches to swimming today because of the recent storms. |
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- Police are questioning someone in a deadly hit-and-run accident on the West Side. |
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- An old-fashioned gasoline price war has been drawing thousands of motorists to a five-mile strip of Roosevelt Road between the Chicago suburbs of Oakbrook Terrace and Glen Ellyn. |
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- Attorneys for both sides say a fired curator of anthropology and archaeology has settled a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit against Chicago's Field Museum. |
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- Lawmakers took time from more serious matters to remember a visit that Beatle George Harrison made to southern Illinois more than 40 years ago. |
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- [hugojevul] - Česko v čele se Špidlovládou není schopno ani zorganizovat bezproblémové volby! |
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- We're doing the usual Memorial Day Family Cemetary Tour. Alfie: (points out a statue of a lamb on a baby's... |
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- The NY Times Magazine had an op-ed on open sourcing e-voting software this weekend.Electronic voting has much to offer, but will we ever be able to trust these buggy machines? Yes, we will -- but only if we adopt the techniques of the "open source" geeks.One reason it's difficult to trust the voting software of companies like Diebold is that the source code remains a trade secret. A few federally approved software experts are allowed to examine the code and verify that it works as intended, and in some cases, states are allowed to keep a copy in escrow. |
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- Frequent flyers may soon have an option to get thorugh those long airport security lines faster: biometrics. Sillicon Valley: Passengers seeking to get on the preferred list would have to voluntarily undergo and pass a detailed background examination. They also might have to pay an annual fee, widely predicted to be about $100. |
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- [by michael]: Some conversations just never seem to die. One topic in particular is the discussion about how computers were so much more expensive and slower 'back then' in comparison to today's 'technological advances'. News alert: That discussion is so passe, it's not even funny. |
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I am back (May 31 2004 18:17 GMT) - I got back last week from the land of the rising sun. I had major jetlag. It was easier going than coming for some odd reason. Anyhow, I had posted from there, but it got lost. One of the problems... |
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- The DEA has apparently misplaced (or has had stolen) a laptop computer containing information identifying their informants.Federal investigators are frantically trying to determine what happened to a missing laptop computer that contains sensitive data on as many as 100 Drug Enforcement Administration investigations around the country, including a wealth of information about many of the agency's confidential informants.Oops. Say, do you think people this incompetent can be trusted to fight terrorism? |
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- Rochester, NY, peace activists joined together on Memorial Day, 5/31/04, to honor all the recent war dead -- American, Iraqi, Afghani. An ecumenical religious service was followed by the reading of names of the dead (including many Iraqi children), and then participants threw flowers representing the souls of the dead into the Genesee River, symbolizing the flow of life and death. |
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- From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity (washingtonpost.com) Three-quarters of the ads aired by Bush's campaign have been attacks on Kerry. Bush aired... |
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- 2006 Cuts In Domestic Spending On Table (washingtonpost.com) Funding cuts proposed by Bush $2.3 billion, or 0.56 percent, out of... |
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