New basic human right discovered
According to an article in New Scientist, an Italian fertility expert, Severino Antinori, claims that a woman in the cloning...
“Lightly veiled”
(Forgot to post this the other day. The number of entries that I plan and/or begin to write but don't...
Time flies
It's been the kind of week where you show up to work and you have three one-hour tasks for the...
Sewing circle
Got mail tonight asking if I knew the origin of the "Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" logo/concept. I didn't,...
Taking a break
I've fallen way behind on reading The Infinite Matrix. For example, it wasn't until now that I read Ray Vukcevich's...
How to be a Romantic poet
Cute little piece by one Adam Goodheart on "How to be a Romantic poet." Excerpt: Thomas Love Peacock distinguished himself...
Copy protection
Somehow I missed this a week ago: Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) has introduced legislation to promote demand for broadband Internet...
Funny .sig
Seen on Slashdot: WWJD? JWRTFM!!! (Did I ever mention that at SGI, we had a tech-pubs server called "WTFM"? W...
Complexity of history
Went to check on a date while reading a story, and came across a bunch of fascinating information about Major...
Presenting
Yesterday, received a very cool birthday present from my grandparents: a letter my father wrote them, five days after I...
Family tree
Best clueless-spammer spam of the week, provided by Jim M.: Subject: Trace the null Family Tree for FREE! Date: Fri,...
Energy costs
Heh. According to this Reuters article, the Bush administration spent over $130,000 of the DOE's solar/renewable/conservation budget to print 10,000...