tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132080802024-03-07T03:53:40.654-05:00Just jogging on my gate!blatherskatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17860138191651926846noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208080.post-1141518480808403122006-03-04T19:14:00.000-05:002006-03-04T19:28:01.436-05:00

"There is no substantive news here, just because some disparate groups of advocates have come together for an event reminiscent of the bar scene in the first 'Star Wars' movie."AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham in response to MoveOn, the conservative activist group RightMarch.com, the U.S. Humane Society, labor and environmental groups and online medical communities such as the Association of Cancer

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So here's something from an article in the WaPo describing a study of Roberts' rulings since he was appointed to the DC court of appeals. A quote in the article from the study's author:"An overall comparison of Judge Roberts' decision-making indicates that he is somewhat more conservative than the average appellate court judge, though not dramatically so," writes the study's author, Kenneth L.

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Whoops.About 4 percent of men may unknowingly be raising a child that really belongs to the mailman or some other guy, researchers speculate in a new study.Researchers pawed through a host of scientific articles published around the world from 1950 through last year. The perceived "paternal discrepancy rate," as it is called, ranges from less than 1 percent to as high as 30 percent in the various

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Some interesting tidbits from a study called "The State of Consumers and Technology: Benchmark 2005" from Forrester Research:Broadband Internet surfers in North America watch two fewer hours of television per week than do those without Internet access.Broadband Internet users watch just 12 hours of TV per week, compared with 14 hours for those who are offline.The study separates consumers into

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Apparently, the Roberts decision isn't the only announcement we'll be waiting for in September. Harry Jaffe of the Washingtonian is reporting that Ana Marie Cox is one of four finalists for the WaPo's "Reliable Source" gossip columnist position. We'll be sad to see her leave Wonkette, of course, as we're quite sure the WaPo will not let her..um..insert nearly as many jokes about anal sex into her

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Computer security conference aims to erase stereotypes...But in line with its anarchic reputation, organizers have made a parody of their own security arrangements, asking attendees to screen their own belongings at an unmanned baggage scanner. Rubber gloves for a "do-it-yourself body cavity search" are provided free of charge....by creating new stereotypes of the nerdy pervert obsessed with anal

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TiVo, based in Alviso, California, has announced plans to insert symbols that identify advertisers during commercial breaks, making them more visible even when a customer is fast forwarding through them. TiVo to encourage viewers to watch commercials [CNN]Up next, Hostess announces plans to encourage children to eat their broccoli.

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Hollywood star Harrison Ford or musician Moby could soon be turning up on US doorsteps to personally deliver Amazon products as part of the online vendor's 10th birthday celebration.The world's biggest Internet retailer said that for 10 days from Wednesday, randomly selected customers across the United States will open their doors to find more than they were expecting when they placed their

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Cell phone service disabled in New York tunnelsAuthorities fear terrorists could use devices to set off bombsTuesday, July 12, 2005NEW YORK (AP) -- Cell phone service was disabled inside the four tunnels leading into Manhattan after the terrorist bombings in London, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioned Monday whether the move "makes the most sense."Cell phones have been used to detonate

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The latest Pew Internet and American Life Project study contains this nifty little statistic: 81% of internet users say they have stopped opening email attachments unless they are sure these documents are safe.Um, yeah. I think a more accurate statistic would go something like this: 70% of internet users now know not to admit opening unsafe email attachments. 10% of internet users have stopped

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So about a week or so ago, I was having a conversation in which I made this statement, "What we really need to do is focus our efforts and attention on coming up with a wireless power supply." My remarks were met with a "don't be silly/crazy" look.Well guess what I JUST read in June's Discover magazine?R&D - Moving $piritsBy Anne CasselmanDISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 06 June 2005Last year’s $10 million

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Beijing clinic ministers to online addicts:A soft-spoken 21-year-old man from northeastern Heilongjiang province who had been in the clinic for 10 days said his addiction had helped him escape from family pressures about his studies."I would stay up for 24 hours. I would eat only in front of the computer," he said.I'm guessing they would say drinking while blogging qualifies as a problem, as well

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It's hard not to imagine some pervy geek over at Wired scanning the news and thinking to himself when he saw this headline, "Heh, he said lesbos." I can't think of any other reason why this story would make the breaking news headlines section of a TECHNOLOGY NEWS website."LONDON (Reuters) - A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the greatest female poet of ancient Greece, was published on

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The whole world's gone mad. "Deep Throat" Mark Felt is being called a traitor. Meanwhile, G. Gordon Liddy, one of the architects of the break-in is being voted on as the World's Sexiest Vegetarian!

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What's next?How the original article reads: A comet actually has two tails: one of dust and ice, and another of charged molecules called ions. Each can reach tens of thousands of miles in length, and trails the comet like long streamers on a bike pointed into the wind.How it would read as written by Phillip A. Cooney:A comet actually has two tails: one of dust and ice, and another of charged

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'Computational Couture' at MIT(AP) -- A recent fashion show at the MIT Media Lab combined things of beauty with rules of math.There was a weighted inflatable dress powered by a hacked vacuum cleaner, a purse designed using a Russian theory of inventive problem solving and a necklace made from 125-volt fuses.Some pieces at the MIT show were more conceptual than others, such as a "reactive

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[Tobacco] firms also considered putting appetite suppressants into cigarettes so they could promote them as weight control products, they said.Hell, why don't they add appetite suppressants to chemotherapy and promote that as a weight control product, too.

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Unusual bright spot on Saturn's big moon, Titan, baffles scientists.Not so baffling? Those dark rings around Uranus.Dude, I couldn't resist!

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