Alternet is showing itself to be a master of self promotion by brethlessly hyping the pivotal impact of its investigation into the latest Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, a group of conservative Digg users who set up a mailing lists to encourage members to “bury” stories on Digg. The group of a 100 Digg users were [...]
Donald M Berwick is the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, appointed by president Obama a few months ago. He’s a fan of Brittian’s National Health Service, one of the “astounding human endeavours of modern times“:
Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it. All I need to [...]
The US Justice Department is suing the state of Arizona over SB 1070, because “The Individual Sections of S.B. 1070 are Prempted by Federal Law“. The theory, as I understand it, is that the Feds assert that only the Feds should be enforcing Federal Immigration law. The irony ( actually, one of many ) is that for [...]
Getting the sand ready to cast an aluminum part for the kitchen.
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Here is a list of the top surf towns in Southern California. The list is computed by taking the number of web searches for the area name plus “surf shop” and dividing by the population of the area. All percentages are expressed relative to the top result. The area names come from Zillow.com, and [...]
Would you be my Friend?
Here is Google’s Friend Connect Widget:
var skin = {};
skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = ‘#cccccc’;
skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = ‘#e0ecff’;
skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = ‘#333333′;
skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = ‘#0000cc’;
skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = ‘#ffffff’;
skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = ‘#ffffff’;
skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = ‘#0000cc’;
skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = ‘#333333′;
skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = ‘#7777cc’;
skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = ‘#666666′;
skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = ‘#333333′;
skin['NUMBER_ROWS'] = ‘5′;
google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl(’/’ /* location of rpc_relay.html and canvas.html */);
google.friendconnect.container.renderMembersGadget(
{ id: ‘div-4019134814077193782′,
site: ‘18179748395891449876′ },
skin);
And Here [...]
Mummification, human vivisection and live burials in a format children can understand. Yes, really.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Inca Mummy will let parents address most of the uncomfortable questions that don’t involve sex, including human sacrifice, what happens when you yank out someone’s heart, the various ways of clubbing someone to death, and how [...]