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It’s an interesting movie but part of me, while never underestimating the corruption and incompetence in government and industry, still felt like there must be another side of the story.

Here’s an article in Wikipedia about the film “Who Killed The Electric Car” and evidence in support and opposition to the case made in the movie. While one might quibble similarly with the Wikipedia article, it is replete with references and links to other sites which tell other sides of the story.

Interesting.

Anyway, after doing my obvious test searches, like Curacao, Arlington Mass, and BlogBridge, I thought I would try each against an actual useful search I had been doing over the weekend:

ipod cradle wireless sync

See the results for yourself: Google results and Cuil Results.

Anyway it’s just one test, but for me the Cuil results for the ipod cradle produced no results at all!

Give everyone the benefit of the doubt though:

• Why are people making a fuss about the fact that it was down on day one?
• I will check my test search again in coming days because it easily good be a transient condition

There’s been a spat relating to the note that Barack Obama wrote and left in the stones of the Western Wall (the “wailing wall”). This tradition goes way back.

The spat is about the fact that someone pulled it out and photographed it and it’s been all over the papers.

I agree that this was an awful invasion of privacy and inappropriate, which is why I resist the strong temptation of putting a copy of the letter.

But how my weird mind works: the letter was a very nice generous and humble statement. But I found myself looking to the end to see how Mr. Obama ’signed’ the letter. Well it was unsigned, which struck me for some reason as funny.

I mean I guess the intended recipient of the letter would know who wrote it. I guess that’s the difference between a letter and a prayer.

You know the little stickers on the credit cards, call xxx-xxx-xxxx to activate your credit card? Do they actually do anything or add to security? Would the card not work if I didn’t call the number?

Well the nice lady who got on the line to activate my card promptly switched scripts and (after thanking me for being a customer for sooo long) promptly started selling me something.

How annoying. Tricked me into calling them to get their sales pitch.

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“He was long a jewel of the MIT faculty. Now, after a devastating brain injury, mathematician Seymour Papert is struggling bravely to learn again how to think like, speak like, be like the man of genius he was.” (from In Search of a Beautiful Mind, The Boston Globe)

Hard to believe that I hadn’t heard of it before. So Sad. Read the whole article, it’s worthwhile.