Stupid Online Advertising, Part 12,459 | Bayosphere
A local fitness company is running an advertisement on the Chronicle’s site. It covers the top of the article, and there’s a little “X” in the corner that supposedly lets you remove the ad.
But after repeatedly clicking it and then having the ad reappear, I want to urge the Chronicle to try something else. I have no problem with online advertising. But this is beyond annoying.
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Been there and done that and didn’t go back.
These news outlets need to learn that the internet is a big place with easy access. Not like the local newspaper which used to be the only game in town. When I run across one of these sites I make a mental note to not go back for a while. Most of the worst offenders learn in a short while or seem to as the offending popunder/over/in the middle of is usually gone by the time I forget about it and go back. Sometimes not but as I said the internet is a big place and most news isn’t just at one place any more.
Learn, earn, or burn…
Satellite Services Division – GOES Gulf of Mexico Visible Loop
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This looks like a useful tool. Certainly one to bookmark with the hurricane coming in who knows where. Took a pen and laid over the path and what shows timeline wise on this map seems to be going in a straight line for New Orleans. Hope they are boarded up good…
Wired 7.01: Look Who’s Talking
The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar.
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I think I have pointed to this article before. Just found it from a link and reread it and felt it needed to be pointed to again. Well written and informative.
Shacktopus
The next step in technomadics.
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Interesting. A little over the top, but then this IS from the guy that rode a 580 lb 1.2 million dollar bike around the us in the early 90’s…
The Huffington Post | The Blog
Confidential Sources
Asking investigative reporters to work without the ability to keep sources confidential is like asking a special prosecutor to do his job without the power of the subpoena.
In the case of “outed” CIA agent Valerie Plame, this reality has obviously escaped the comprehension of a fanatically zealous special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, and a judicial hooligan named Hogan – Judge Thomas.
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Amen!
The Memory Hole > “The Mind Has No Firewall”: Army article on psychotronic weapons
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Been out a while but still interesting. Wonder what they are working on now? But not real sure I want to know…
LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.
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This is a good site to learn about Linux and scripting. Definitely a site to bookmark.
Treehugger: Harry Potter Recycled, eh?
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Seems to be a ground swell of this kind of thing lately. Interesting how it seems to be in counterpoint to Bushinator camps rape and plunder the enviroment for the quick buck. Glad to see it.
Treehugger: Gardens Growing Up The Walls
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Now this makes a lot of sense. Also means that those weeds in the yard are doing the same thing. So by not cutting my lawn I am doing a double triple good thing. I’m not using the lawnmower which uses gas and produces pollution but I am encouraging the growth of natural air and soil purifiers to counteract others polluting ways. Yep, that’s the story they all get from now on when they bitch about the tall grass…
Birdie Nest Golf Ball Warmers
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Let me start off by saying that this is a site/page that I have been working on for a customer.
Now that that is out of the way, take a look and let me know what you think. I will have more and better pictures when the next batch comes in.
Planning on adding a page on actual use with pix and graphs and such like too.
Back to the hunt…
SPIEGEL Interview with African Economics Expert: “For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!” – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News
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Interesting view. And very correct. When the aid stops the folks who have come to depend on it will starve. The ones put out of business because they can’t compete with free aid products end up trying to find another way of making a living and often starve. Interference in the guise of Aid of any kind should STOP now! Let the folks closest to the problem figure out how to correct it. Many are self correcting.
As has been shown here in the US Aid breeds both armys of bureaucrats as well and dependents. It makes it hard if not impossible to escape… Teach – YES. Give – NO
Nanotubes inspire new technique for healing broken bones
Bone tissue is a natural composite of collagen fibers and hydroxyapatite crystals. Haddon and his coworkers have demonstrated for the first time that nanotubes can mimic the role of collagen as the scaffold for growth of hydroxyapatite in bone.
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Sounds like with this and a bit of super glue, you’d have the sci-fi orthostat glue…
Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
An international team of marine research scientists working for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) have found new evidence that links catastrophic sand avalanches in deep Gulf waters to rapid sea level changes. By analyzing downhole measurements and freshly retrieved sediment cores, IODP scientists are reconstructing the history of a basin formed approximately 20,000 years ago, when sea level fell so low that the Texas shoreline shifted almost 100 miles to the south. The data are important to reconstructing climate change history and gathering insights about the development and placement of natural resources, particularly gas and oil deposits.
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Stuff has gotta go somewhere. And this is the same thing that is happening with the crap that we humans have been throwing into the rivers and streams too. All of that lovely chemical plant discharge, among other equally pleasant things…
VHEMT
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
“May we live long and die out”
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Okay…
This one in from Steve. Working on the posting by email thing to make it easier from where ever. 😉
We have had a run of problems with bread lately. First had a bad bag of flour. Then problems with yeast that I think had gotten hot in a warehouse somewhere. Then the past month it just wouldn’t work right for me or Cat. Finely got the book on the old bread machine out and it mentioned over 80 degrees F. you need to use cold water from the fridge and cut back on the yeast. So here is the result:
Just about finished it off at lunch. She has another one in the machine now so will see how it does today.
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