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Commenting has been turned back on, but seems to be broken at least on recent posts. Sorry for the inconvenience. Should the situation persist in the morning, I’ll be here, waiting for SB.com to go back to normal.
Happy New Year!
Thanks, Gwen for the tip on this must see, soon to be viral video (or is it something that’s been around for years and I didn’t notice?)
Continue reading Polar Bear vs. Camera (guess who wins?)
When it comes to ease of use, there is no difference between a computer with Windows and a computer with Linux, assuming both systems are installed properly. That there is a meaningful difference is a myth perpetuated by Windows fanboys or individuals who have outdated experience with Linux. Also, the comparison that is often being made is unfair: One’s experience with a computer purchased as Best Buy or supplied at work, with OEM Windows already installed (see below) is being compared with a self-install of Linux onto an about to be discarded computer.
Continue reading Linux Ease of Use: Designing The Ultimate Grandmother-Ready Computer
The latest epic viral fail, designed for maximum wow factor but that hardly qualifies as an a-ha moment, is the Lake Superior University list of words to be banned in 2011. I heard the back story from my BFF, well, it’s not very interesting.
Some would say that Lake Superior U should man up and admit that language is flexible, and that it is pointless to refudiate neologisms such as “Mamma Grizzlies” if the American People want to live life to the fullest, linguistically, as it were. I’m just sayin’
If you think this blog post is interesting, please facebook it. If you want to know the source of this blog post, imma let you google it.
The last Kodachrome processing machine, at Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, shut down and will be sold for scrap. This is a bummer, because I think I still have some film laying around that I’ve not gotten ’round to getting developed. They figured out why Skype crashed earlier this month, and it has to do with a bug in a Windows version of Skype that users should have updated but didn’t. But don’t blame the users. They were using Windows, and there is no automatic updating process for software on Windows, like there is in, ahem, Linux. People who use unsecured operating systems such as Windows should not be allowed on large complex and critically important networks like Skype. The Majority of Americans believe that America is on Mission from God.
Android has a virus (a Trojan Horse, technically). Click here. Spam rates are dropping. That is all for now.
Atoms are the smallest things stuff can be and still be an element. So, why should the periodic table be so huge? Like, covering almost an entire piece of paper?
Today’s falsehood1 is the idea of “The Missing Link.” You’ve heard about The Missing Link. You’ll hear that some palaeontologist has discovered something and they tell us it is “The Missing Link.” Often, it is a supposed “link” between some ancestor of humans (a fossil ape, a monkey, whatever) and us humans. And often, you’ll also find that when the press reports a “missing link” the science blogosphere erupts with a torrent flowing over the phrase and the concept, about how there really is no such thing as “The Missing Link,” or that this particular report of such a link is spurious, or something else bad.
Continue reading Falsehood: Is it ever OK to use the term “Missing Link”?
Imma post something substantive in a minute, but for now have a look at this:
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Hat Tip: Ana
Here’s why it would be bad (click the image to see the cartoon):
Sarah Palin has accidentally revealed her own 500 dollar haircut, her own Chappaquiddick, her own Monica Lewinsky. On a recent trip to Canada, during a speech, she revealed the fact that when she lived in rural Alaska as a child, her family regularly slipped across the Canadian border to avail themselves of the Canadian Healthcare System.
Yes, folks, Sarah Palin was an illegal in Canada, as I assume the health care system there is for Canadians, not Unitedstateseans. And, yes, folks, Palin’s people are socialist commies who engage in socialist commie Obamacare Canadian style then lie about it later.
This comes as Palin’s approval ratings in Alaska have plummeted. Moreover, various documents (mainly official emails) from Palin’s ill-fated Alaskan governorship, which were supposed to be released a long time ago, are being kept in hiding. Why? Because there are things there they don’t want us to see, I assume.
The Canadian health care story is here. The latest poll results are here. The story about the emails is here. Enjoy.
A debate with Jaclyn Friedman and Naomi Wolf:
I just read this Action Alert and pursuant to it I sent this note to AMC theaters:
Continue reading Antivax ads in movie theaters