Margaret sent this to me. Interesting. Although I’ve also read research that claims to have found just the opposite. (Although I can’t find it now…)
By Jeremy Manier
Tribune staff reporter
March 31, 2006
Praying for a sick cardiac patient may feel right to people of faith, but it doesn’t appear to improve the patient’s health, according to a [...]
Since my Powerbook is in the shop I’ve been using Gmail for again for a week or two and I was reminded again how much I actually like computers reading my email. Wish they could read it all for me and just tell me what to do.
It gave me a link straight to the tracking [...]
This should be appended to the definition of ridiculous.
I just signed up for some kind of webinar from Microsoft about Exchange Server. After entering all my information and pressing “Continue” only to have it predictably lose all my information and make me enter it all over again (so 1995), I press continue once [...]
I have found The Slate’s email newsletter “Today’s Papers” a nice low volume, low anger-producing way to get a somewhat balanced impression of what’s going on in the world. I signed up for the daily email, so each morning Slate tells me what the nation’s newpaper editors thought were the day’s most important stories. USA [...]
My mom sent this to me.
A young hillbilly named Kenny moved to texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next day the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey up and died.”
Kenny replied, [...]
Since I signed up for my Arabic class I was just perusing through my system preferences to see how to enable Arabic input. I noticed that Klingon is a supported language. Cute. Doesn’t seem to have a character set for it though. (Don’t think Klingon is supported by UTF8).
Abdur Sayed Rahman has been a prisoner in Guantanamo for the past four years. According to the NY Times article, he says he was a chicken farmer in Pakistan until he was arrested at his farm in 2002 and hauled off to Guantanamo where he is accused of being deputy foreign minister of the Taliban. [...]
This is the best thing I’ve found on the internet in a while. If you never follow any links that I put in articles, follow these. I was laughing my ass off for a few hours.
At The Brick Testament you can see many famous stories from the Bible illustrated with Legos. Definitely worth checking out. [...]
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela’s president and Israel’s prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters’ board of directors.
In the past few months, Robertson suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment [...]
New Scientist has a story about a nimble, four-legged robot that can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick.” From the article: “The project is sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who want the robotic pack mule to assist soldiers in terrain too tough for vehicles. Ground-based soldiers [...]
CNN has an article detailing a $9 billion loophole in the tax code to spur synthetic fuel development. Unfortunately, spraying coal with pine tar qualifies, and someone forgot to bribe CNN.
The wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is [...]
And in Ohio, a private video surveillance company called CityWatcher has embedded radio transmitter ID chips into two of its employees. It is believed to be the first time U.S. workers have been electronically tagged for identification purposes. Privacy activist Liz McIntyre said “There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people [...]
The Altantic has a good article by Kenneth Pollack that outlines 7 steps we must take to avoid civil war in Iraq.
Make protecting the Iraqi people and civilian infrastructure our highest priority.
Shift the strategic emphasis from offensive to defensive military operations.
Emphasize population security in the south and center of Iraq.
Train Iraqi forces properly. A showy [...]