Just wanted to congratulate “Elton John”:http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid22912.asp (and David Furnish) and “George Michael”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4483552.stm (and Kenny Goss) on their impending nuptials. It’s nice to know that someone is moving forward on this. Go UK!
Posted by Chris in Law on November 30th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
This could also be categorized under Things That Make Deana Happy.
Posted by Deana in Science on November 28th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
My inner child has had a crush on Daniel Radcliffe since I first saw him interviewed about the Harry Potter movies and he was so nice to a wheelchair-bound kid in the audience (and Rupert Grint definitely WASN’T). Plus, well, glasses just do it for me. As it turns out, I’m not the only one [...]
Posted by Deana in Film on November 28th, 2005 | 4 Comments »
SpaceX announced that Falcon 1, the first privately-developed liquid-fueled rocket designed to reach orbit, will launch this Friday. If successful, it will mean a new era of safe, low-cost access to space; Falcon has both the lowest cost ($7 million) and highest reliability rating of any American launch vehicle. Go Falcon!
UPDATE: The November [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on November 23rd, 2005 | 4 Comments »
It’s an obvious one, but it’s good to see the science being done. A “Daily Mail article”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=369379&in_page_id=1799 says that recent studies have shown increased levels of oxytocin and arginine vasopressin, hormones involved in social bonding, in children who were held, cuddled, and otherwise lavished with love and attention as babies. The hope is [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on November 22nd, 2005 | No Comments »
I, for one, welcome our new “robot dance overlords”:http://beck.com/media/video.php?id=00019. (Warning: your choice of crappy Windows Media or crappy Real Media.) Seriously, who knew that one day robots would be dancing like 80s pop stars dancing like robots?
Posted by Chris in Technology on November 18th, 2005 | No Comments »
I’m probably late to the party on this one, but I just heard about this one today. A recent Senate vote “weakened the USDA Organic standard”:http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/11/7/11418/9530 by allowing the definition of “organic” to include all sorts of artificial substances:
bq. Ominously, the Senate’s act would strip power to decide which synthetic substances can and cannot [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on November 14th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
If you aren’t outraged, you’re not paying attention. Either way, read “Detainees Deserve Court Trials”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301061.html, an outstanding opinion piece in today’s Washington Post.
bq.. As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on [...]
Posted by Chris in Government on November 14th, 2005 | No Comments »
Now _that’s_ what I’m talkin’ about. The UK government, which recently started supporting wind power in a big way, just completed a study that shows that “wind is a stable, continuous source of energy”:http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article326907.ece in the UK, and has been for as long as they have records. In fact, it seems to [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on November 14th, 2005 | No Comments »
BUSH: “We have discovered the true enemy — that overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people who want US troops to leave immediately. They are a ruthless enemy, and we will not surrender until we have defeated them.”
Or at least that’s how I heard it.
Posted by Chris in Government, Iraq, Politics, World on November 11th, 2005 | 3 Comments »
