News
1. Matt Frei's description of his recent negative travel experience and past harrowing flights was amusing...but I do hope this is followed up with a serious comparison to the European experience with passenger rights and compensation.
2. Beebs reports on the proposed road pricing scheme with a highly dubious opinion survey of a mere 1006 individuals. I don't doubt the scheme is unpopular, but by 74% against?
3. Trabbi nostalgia - interesting to think of Communist-nostalgia. Clearly North Korea is missing out on a dynamic opportunity here. ;-)
4. On the deplorable conditions and bureaucratic red-tape wounded Iraq War veterans are finding themselves in at Walter Reed. As first reported in the Washington Post. On the whole, I can't say I'm surprised ... it has always been like this in every long-duration American war. American society simply isn't set up, as a fundamental value, for community values - it hews closer to the fascist fibre of self-reliance, and one is all to readily forgotten in the seams of institutions perhaps designed more for public assuagement than actual service.
5. Meanwhile, old lethal habits re-emerge in the Phillipines Army.
6. Medical e-clipboards - quite a good idea, actually...if the software and interface are good. Not too unlike what some of my inspector colleagues use in the field, actually.
7. Of size and body image - well, I plan on going to the gym 4 days a week, and I'm 99.99% certain I won't become a stick figure. ;-)
8. "Natural contraception" - oh dear, who funded this research and this story?
9. I know clowns can face a tough crowd and general enmity, but again Colombia sets new standards for this sort antagonism.
10. "Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!"..."Full speed over here, sir!" ... "Cut the cable! Drop the cable!" ... "Aye, aye, sir, fire!" - someone steals a yellow submarine
2. Beebs reports on the proposed road pricing scheme with a highly dubious opinion survey of a mere 1006 individuals. I don't doubt the scheme is unpopular, but by 74% against?
3. Trabbi nostalgia - interesting to think of Communist-nostalgia. Clearly North Korea is missing out on a dynamic opportunity here. ;-)
4. On the deplorable conditions and bureaucratic red-tape wounded Iraq War veterans are finding themselves in at Walter Reed. As first reported in the Washington Post. On the whole, I can't say I'm surprised ... it has always been like this in every long-duration American war. American society simply isn't set up, as a fundamental value, for community values - it hews closer to the fascist fibre of self-reliance, and one is all to readily forgotten in the seams of institutions perhaps designed more for public assuagement than actual service.
5. Meanwhile, old lethal habits re-emerge in the Phillipines Army.
6. Medical e-clipboards - quite a good idea, actually...if the software and interface are good. Not too unlike what some of my inspector colleagues use in the field, actually.
7. Of size and body image - well, I plan on going to the gym 4 days a week, and I'm 99.99% certain I won't become a stick figure. ;-)
8. "Natural contraception" - oh dear, who funded this research and this story?
9. I know clowns can face a tough crowd and general enmity, but again Colombia sets new standards for this sort antagonism.
10. "Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!"..."Full speed over here, sir!" ... "Cut the cable! Drop the cable!" ... "Aye, aye, sir, fire!" - someone steals a yellow submarine