McCain: Rumsfeld was one of the worst - USATODAY.com
It occurs to me that John McCain should have probably acted like a true maverick and run against Bush in 2004.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Be careful what you ask for
Steve Martin has some thoughts on something I've been wondering about for a long time. Why would you even want 72 Virgins?
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Time to get Real
$25 Million Offered In Climate Challenge
"I believe in our resourcefulness and in our capacity to invent solutions to the problems we have ourselves created," said Branson.
This proposal, I think, is important. It's seemed to me for some time now, that if you really accept the supposed consensus science that Global Warming is caused by human activity, then you have to concede that WE ARE TOO LATE to stop it by doing less of said human activity. We cannot stop Global Climate Change by reducing emissions. (Although, of course, reducing emissions is always a good thing.) Kyoto is a feel good measure at best. It would accomplish nothing. The cats out of the bag. The greenhouse gas is in the atmosphere. We were too late the day Global Warming was discovered and named. We are not "causing" it - we CAUSED it. We cannot "un-cause" it. You could park all vehicles and shutdown all the factories in the world. You could wave a magic wand and whisk the entire human race off the planet and the CLIMATE WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE. The science is in, it's time to turn the problem over to the engineers.
"I believe in our resourcefulness and in our capacity to invent solutions to the problems we have ourselves created," said Branson.
This proposal, I think, is important. It's seemed to me for some time now, that if you really accept the supposed consensus science that Global Warming is caused by human activity, then you have to concede that WE ARE TOO LATE to stop it by doing less of said human activity. We cannot stop Global Climate Change by reducing emissions. (Although, of course, reducing emissions is always a good thing.) Kyoto is a feel good measure at best. It would accomplish nothing. The cats out of the bag. The greenhouse gas is in the atmosphere. We were too late the day Global Warming was discovered and named. We are not "causing" it - we CAUSED it. We cannot "un-cause" it. You could park all vehicles and shutdown all the factories in the world. You could wave a magic wand and whisk the entire human race off the planet and the CLIMATE WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE. The science is in, it's time to turn the problem over to the engineers.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Lithuanian Goth Band - Anapilis
I stumbled upon this band while surfing YouTube one night and I really like it. I went to Lithuania two years ago. My wife's parents are from there originally and we went to visit some of my wife's relatives.
Friday, February 2, 2007
a collaborative novel
Penguin books have set up a wiki-based experiment in collective novel writing.
"So is the novel immune from being swept up into the fashion for collaborative activity? Well, this is what we are going to try and discover with A Million Penguins, a collaborative, wiki-based creative writing exercise. We should go into this with the best spirit of scientific endeavour - the experiment is going live, the lab is under construction, the subjects are out there. And the results? We’ll see in a couple of months."
Check it out at amillionpenguins.com
"So is the novel immune from being swept up into the fashion for collaborative activity? Well, this is what we are going to try and discover with A Million Penguins, a collaborative, wiki-based creative writing exercise. We should go into this with the best spirit of scientific endeavour - the experiment is going live, the lab is under construction, the subjects are out there. And the results? We’ll see in a couple of months."
Check it out at amillionpenguins.com
I learned about this from an article on Yahoo's news page. But Penguin seems to be having some technical difficulties. Seems "the collective" is interested in writing a novel and as a result their server keeps getting swamped. Hopefully they'll get a handle on their capacity issues. I plan on following this project (it's supposed to last six weeks) and may even contribute a line or two.
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