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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:37 pm

How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost Revealed By Researchers

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Okay, that’s how. Now why do they make the trip?

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:35 pm

Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming

Stands to reason. The warmer it is the more moisture in the air. The moister the air the less resistance lost to friction.

But Albert E ain’t worried bout no global warming…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:32 pm

James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

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Now available online and free! I suspect this will boost his dead tree sales quite a bit. Gonna have to do some online reading now…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:30 pm

Hoopty Rides: MegaGiant Wood Ipod Eliminates Mugging Threat!

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this is cool! Gonna have to get that issue of Make that describes the construction of this project when it hits the street…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 8:10 pm

Climate Is Regulated By Water

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Well yes it is. And a lot of other things. Not saying that a WHOLE lot is dependent on water but the blatant statement could be made about a lot of other things too.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 7:42 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – ‘Pig disease’ may be spreading between humans
Vaccines to combat a deadly pig-borne disease were flown to south-western China on Sunday, where the spread of the rare illness has already killed 36 people and infected 198. The unusually high numbers of people infected by the swine disease has led scientists to speculate that it may be being spread from human-to-human – or that another disease entirely is to blame.

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I was wondering how long it would take as virulent as it seems to be at least from what scanty reports that I have seen. The initial 19 (?) had no contact with each other and now there are this many more.

Something wicked this way comes…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 7:18 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Amphetamines relieve Parkinson’s-like symptoms

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Interesting. Especially the hypothetical mechanism they suspect of operating here.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 5:03 pm

Gizmodo IMterview: Jonathon Keats :
Gizmodo

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Long time coming…

Tis strange to say the least and I understand the concept he is shooting for on the other claw. 😉

Not so sure about the “God” project or the Berkeley petition.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 2:26 pm

Techdirt:Where The Hell Am I On This Newspaper Website?

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Oh yea! Big pet peeve of mine.

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what country a paper is in much less trying it figure out what state or city it was! And it pisses me off every time!

The simple addition of “city, state and country” in the copyright statement would be a BIG improvement…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 1:26 pm

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
DRM on Mactel Machines?

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Read the article. Get pissed off. Or even more pissed off at Apple and DRM, if that’s possible.

I have posted about being a bit upset with Apple about this before. I have not updated to Tiger because of the growing inclusion of DRM into every aspect of the os that they possibly could.

Come on people! It’s hard enough now to open a document if the extension is not what the OS thinks that program should be allowed to handle.

What will it be like under “trusted computing”?

Have a bit change in a document due to “cosmic rays” or bit rot on the cd or dvd or even hard drive that it’s stored on, and depending on what bit it is, you AIN”T gonna get to open it at all, cause “something’s” not right. STUPID! The caps ain’t big enough!

Good bye Apple. Been nice working on your platform lo these many years. But there is always a breaking point and you just crossed mine. Neither you nor any of your platforms developers will get another penny of my vote!

I’ll be reloading my iBook(s) with linux soon. And you can bet my next computer(s) won’t have that cute little apple on the lid.

It’ll be a penguin…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 12:42 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Cannabis may soothe inflamed bowels

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Warning – Semi Off-topic follows –

That “evil” weed just keeps on being useful, doesn’t it?

Now if the government (of the people, by the people, and for the people? pardon me while I puke…) would wake up and quit spending billions of dollars a year “fighting” the “war on drugs” and building more prisons to house their victims.

Hard drug use is a self-correcting problem, unlike the “war” which is a self-perpetuating problem, and one that has put millions of otherwise law abiding people in jail and has driven many, if not most, hardcore drug users to a life of crime to support their habits.

My personal belief is that the “war on drugs” is also directly responsible for the spread of aids (and the millions of resulting deaths) among those that use needles, simply by restricting the availability to the point that dirty one-shots get used many times by many folks.

Education eradicates – Incarceration perpetuates…