14 miles! oh yeah, baby! it's gonna be me against the flying pig. murphy willing
several days ago word got out of the u.s. military investigating death of afghan in custody . in initial reports, we were treated to moronic reasoning as to exactly why the examiners had decided to call the case a homicide:
"The spokesman for the United States-led force in Afghanistan, Col. Roger King, said in an e-mail message that the choice of the box "homicide" to describe the death meant only that "the doctor felt something besides the other choices listed (natural, accident, suicide) led to the death.""
amazingly in this day and age, it appears that now military officials are now indeed admitting that they were killed :
"American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul - reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives.
A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism."
local harvest - fresh, locally grown, organic food:
"Do you want fresh, locally grown, organic food, but don't know where to find it? The Local Harvest map makes it easy to find family farms, farmers markets and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area. Just click on the map below to zoom in, or search with our search form for quick results."
camino, the browser formerly known as chimera, is out with a bevy of enhancements, including better bookmark import/export compatibility with its sister. although, curiously, it decided to take put a single folders links outside the folder on import.
quick. when you see a headline like, "lip size key to sexual attraction" - who's lips are you guaranteed of seeing?
while it will be ahile before i consider weaning myself from google , i will say that i learned a great deal from sterling hughes' excellent and balanced post on the golden calf :
"Google is a company, and an excellent company from what I can see. Sometimes they have clairvoyant ideas, such as using large clusters based on commodity hardware (which, btw, FAST has always done as well). I believe, however, the geek community has created Google as a Golden Calf, and no corporation can be good religion."
i had no idea that alltheweb and google have had nearly identical relevancy rankings for search results for quiet some time. [ via webvoice ]
the hullaballoo surrounding seattlewireless.COM trying to snooker the unsuspecting into paying for the free services provided by fine organizations like seattlewireless.NET , is actually an interesting case of post-hoc fact checking in the blogger world. kevine werbach and boing boing being the most prominent examples.
Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational Databases:
"To summarize, the Topic Map paradigm provides a powerful way to add data to a relational database at runtime in a very flexible and powerful way. Topic Maps provide an excellent technique to overcome the natural limitations of relational databases: the constraining nature of the database schema. An added bonus is the ability to export the data as an XTM file, thus enabling interchange with other Topic Maps."
must be something in the water. matt haughey is the latest to roll out a redesign.
joel is at it again. "building communities with software":
"Look at a few online communities and you'll instantly notice the different social atmosphere. Look more closely, and you'll see this variation is most often a byproduct of software design decisions."
i guess we can all feel better now that new research finds a partial cause for our collective dimwittedness. obese men 'have lower IQs':
"No similar link could be detected for overweight or obese women."
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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