Due to upgrade in the software, post from around the Ethereal Land are not being automatically pulled like they use to be. Here is a couple of the more noteworthy ones that have been missed.
Gifted (Chicken Man)
The Empty Couch (The Silverware Thief)
Assumptions make a fool out of you (Ape Man)
Of course, many others are not being pulled. Maybe we will get that fixed one day.
Don’t worry about the swine flue, worry about this.
Who do you think is buying the majority of treasury bonds now? You could make the case that it was better when it was the Chinese who were doing most of the buying.
A reporter in San Francisco gets bad service on her iphone. One commentor, on the verge of hysteria, points out that a more factually constructed article would compare the service with other phones on the same network (the commentor either misses or choose to ignore the dubious nature of an “informal Facebook survey”).
ATT doesn’t see what the big deal is. Well–maybe not. But then, what is the big deal about the iphone in the first place?
Live by image, die by image.
A French spy movie makes the Russians very mad. Who would have thought?
Three solvable problems put together produce an unsolvable problem.
Everything turned to blood. The video clip is all right, but the pictures further down in the article are really cool.
If they work on this concept, it could go a long way towards providing a much more immersive virtual reality. You could walk however you please in order to control your avatar, and the robots would keep you from walking into things in real life.
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Link I found off of Neatorama
Scandalous behavior by school children.
Everyone wants New York’s Governor to go. They should be careful about what they wish for.
This is why you can’t escape from black bears by climbing a tree.
This week’s essay of the week calls to mind Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” in a very ironic way.
It ought to be considered a war crime to send people out to kill and die for no reason. If such things ever do become an indictable offense, Michael Yon’s latest essay would be evidence enough to start a criminal case.
It is clear from Yon’s post and from other newspaper reports that Great Britian is sending its troops off to kill and die in Afghanistan for no reason whatsoever. They don’t have enough troops to take the battle to then enemy that the old school doctrines of warfare call for. They don’t have enough troops to protect the population according to modern theories of counterinsurgency warfare. All they are doing is fighting and dying for the sheer pleasure of existing in Afghanistan.
They are paying for things that they destroy when they defend themselves. They are giving free medical treatment to people that they know are their enemies. They are letting prisoners go because they are afraid of trouble if they don’t. They are doing all this in the hopes of winning support by being nice.
But if they can’t defend the population, the population will never support them no matter how nice they are. Even if a sizable portion of the population supports the British, they will never dare act on that support while the Taliban have control. And it is manifestly clear that the British cannot secure the population with the force that they sent to do the job.
What is worse is that it is clear that the powers that be don’t even expect them to secure the population or defeat the Taliban. They just expect them to fight and die for the appearance of doing something.
The past. The Jerusalem clip is the most interesting of the two if you are short time.
Some good news maybe? Let us hope Pakistan was just as incompetent. Though odds are their Chinese design worked.
Some Word Press problems. I think it has to do with hosting though and not the software.