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In the same article, K-Fed spits out today's quote of the day: "The same day Dick Cheney shoots someone, they've got me on the cover of msn.com."

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John Pendry's team suggest that by enveloping an object in a metamaterial cloak, light waves can be made to flow around the object in the same way that water would do so.

"Water behaves a little differently to light. If you put a pencil in water that's moving, the water naturally flows around the pencil. When it gets to the other side, the water closes up," Professor Pendry told the BBC.

Special materials could make light "flow" around an object like water "A little way downstream, you'd never know that you'd put a pencil in the water - it's flowing smoothly again. Light doesn't do that of course, it hits the pencil and scatters. So you want to put a coating around the pencil that allows light to flow around it like water, in a nice, curved way."

The work provides a mathematical "recipe" for bending light waves in such a way as to achieve a desired cloaking effect.

]]> Technology 2006-05-26T15:35:56-05:00 http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/2006/05/26/cloaking-device-in-18-months.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyBubble/~3/Paqd-IU59Ow/marijuana-not-associated-with-lung-cancer.php Smoking pot doesn't increase your chance of getting lung cancer. Does anyone else find it sad that you can go to jail longer for giving a friend some pot than for raping that friend?... 1869@http://www.dailybubble.com/ Smoking pot doesn't increase your chance of getting lung cancer. Does anyone else find it sad that you can go to jail longer for giving a friend some pot than for raping that friend?

]]> Health and Science 2006-05-26T09:56:18-05:00 http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/2006/05/26/marijuana-not-associated-with-lung-cancer.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyBubble/~3/hU0lX9NSsOk/student-expelled-over-blog-post.php Yesterday, I asked: "Do you think students should be expelled for posting a blog entry in violation of school standards?" Today, a kid is expelled over a blog post.... 1868@http://www.dailybubble.com/ Yesterday, I asked: "Do you think students should be expelled for posting a blog entry in violation of school standards?"

Today, a kid is expelled over a blog post.

]]> Art & Culture 2006-05-25T11:44:56-05:00 http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/2006/05/25/student-expelled-over-blog-post.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyBubble/~3/JBAHqx0Yn0M/iraq-reaches-yet-another-turning-point.php Dan Froomkin writes: Talking about Iraq, Bush referred yesterday to "a new chapter in our relationship." On Monday, he hailed the formation of a new Iraqi government as a "turning point."But as Peter Baker and Bradley Graham noted in yesterday's... 1867@http://www.dailybubble.com/ Dan Froomkin writes:

Talking about Iraq, Bush referred yesterday to "a new chapter in our relationship." On Monday, he hailed the formation of a new Iraqi government as a "turning point."

But as Peter Baker and Bradley Graham noted in yesterday's Washington Post: "Bush has declared turning points and milestones in the war before. He called it 'an important milestone' when a temporary governing council was formed in July 2003 and 'a turning point' when sovereignty was turned over to the interim government in June 2004. Elections in January 2005, he said, were both 'a turning point in the history of Iraq' and 'a milestone in the advance of freedom.'

"He called it a 'milestone' in October when Iraqi voters approved a constitution and 'a major milestone' two months later when they elected a parliament -- a moment he also termed 'a turning point in the history of Iraq, the history of the Middle East and the history of freedom.' The selection of a prime minister last month was 'an important milestone toward our victory in Iraq' and, a week later, 'a turning point for the Iraqi citizens.' "

Iraq must be dizzy to the point of vomiting after so much turning. Personally, I'm looking for the point when Iraq stops turning, and it reaches the milestone where I could drive the five miles from the airport to the Green Zone without an armed escort.

]]> Politics 2006-05-24T14:42:32-05:00 http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/2006/05/24/iraq-reaches-yet-another-turning-point.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyBubble/~3/CbmebcVzB44/wheelchair-vs-tank.php Finally, a wheelchair that could win!... 1866@http://www.dailybubble.com/ Finally, a wheelchair that could win!

]]> The Human Spirit 2006-05-24T09:19:12-05:00 http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/2006/05/24/wheelchair-vs-tank.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyBubble/~3/9xHqdB-Ui_A/schools-to-monitor-myspace-blogs.php The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for... 1865@http://www.dailybubble.com/ The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action. The rule will take effect at the start of the next school year, officials said. District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will monitor them if they get a worrisome tip from another student, a parent or a community member.

Do you think students should be expelled for posting a blog entry in violation of school standards?

So with this situation, does society look at this as a legitimate crime? Legally they are both crimes obviously, but do people look at it that way? are they are equal and the same? The reason I bring this up is I would be willing to bet with case #1 (Pamela Rodgers Turner) most men would think the kid is the luckiest kid in the world, and with case #2, most men would think the kid was a victim. What do you think?

Definitely check out the pictures and add your $.02! Personally, I would like to be boy #1 and think teacher #2 should get the death penalty. It's for the common good.

"One thing the Bush administration says it can do with this [NSA] meta-data-[gathering] is to start tapping your calls and listening in, without getting a warrant from anyone. Having listened in on your calls, the administration asserts that if it doesn't like what it hears, it has the authority to detain you indefinitely without trial or charges, torture you until you confess or implicate others, extradite you to a Third World country to be tortured, ship you to a secret prison facility in Eastern Europe, or all of the above. If, having kidnapped and tortured you, the administration determines you were innocent after all, you'll be dumped without papers somewhere in Albania left to fend for yourself," - Matt Yglesias

Matt, stop being such a negative nancy! They're not listening to everyone. Just their political enemies.

"I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me. As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Stay the course'."

The interesting thing about Washington is that they want me to change -- they being the -- and I'm not changing, you know. You can't make decisions if you don't know who you are, and you flip around with the politics. You've got to stay strong in what you believe and optimistic about that you'll get good results.

And so --the other thing I want you to know about me is that no matter how pressurized it may seem, I'm not changing what I believe. . . . I'm not changing. I don't care whether they like me at the cocktail parties, or not. I want to be able to leave this office with my integrity intact.

President Bush is an excellent example of rugged optimism in the face of any facts. What kind of a weakling sees a change in the situation and adjusts his course of action? That sort of weakness is contemptable. In a lot of ways, this President resembles a proud bird, unfortunately now extinct.

David's Two Cents: Rumor has it Britney's about to kick K-fed to the curb. Just listen to that alliteration! Here's what a secret source told Life & Style Weekly: "Brit’s been very unhappy, and I think she needs to find some peace. Once the Spears family gets its game plan together, the idea is to spring a divorce on Kev without warning.” And with a swish of Britney' pen, Kevin's crappy career craters.

He had just finished his perceptics training and was at the Los Angeles airport, preparing to fly home to the Tampa Bay area. He stood at a crosswalk with perhaps 20 others, including a woman and her son, an antsy boy 6 or 7 years old.

As the light turned green, the boy bolted into the street, ahead of his mother. Feshbach perceived a pickup bearing down on the boy, driven by a young woman.

He yelled and saved the boy's life by a quarter of an inch, he said.

Think about it. This man was standing on sidewalk and could actually perceive a pickup coming towards the crosswalk. Using Super Powers, he sensed that the truck was not at a complete stop!

Coincidence? Feshbach doesn't think so. No one else saw the pickup, he says. He believes that, through the Super Power program, he elevated his perceptive abilities beyond those of the others at that crosswalk. His enhanced perceptions have played out numerous times since, he said.

Do these super powers sound appealing to you? Hell yeah! If you are a rational person, there might be some roadblocks. preventing you from swallowing so much bullshit at once. But if you can get past that, a world of augmented senses awaits you. The St. Petersburg Times reports:

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Three years into major combat in Vietnam, 28,500 U.S. service members had perished, millions of families were anxious about the military draft and antiwar protests had spread to dozens of college campuses.

Today, at the same juncture in the Iraq war, about 2,400 American soldiers have died, the U.S. military consists entirely of volunteers and public dissent is sporadic.

There's one other difference: The war in Iraq is more unpopular than was the Vietnam conflict at this stage, polls show.

More Americans -- 57 percent -- say sending troops to Iraq was a mistake than the 48 percent who called Vietnam an error in April 1968, polls by the Princeton, New Jersey-based Gallup Organization show. That's because more people believed that Vietnam was crucial to U.S. security, scholars say.

It also explains why President Bush is one point away from matching Nixon's highest disapproval rating, 66%.

UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan has a graph of America coming to its senses. Does this look like a curve bottoming out to you?