NYTimes Op-Ed on globalization and outsourcing.

Strange NutriGrain video spoof.

God Hates Shrimp Leviticus 11:10: And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you ( Read more... )

Long past time for another visit to MemeStreams.

NY Times: Student, 19, in Trial of New Antidepressant Commits SuicideA 19-year-old college student who had shown no outward signs of depression killed herself over the weekend at an Eli Lilly & Company laboratory in Indianapolis where she had been participating in a company drug trial for an ( Read more... )

From the Boston Globe: "From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password."

The VoteMatch Quiz compares your views with the Presidential candidates. (I got 58%-43% matches from the Democratic ( Read more... )

Andrew Mishkin's blog about the Mars rover. He's on the team that works through the Martian night building command sequences for the rover to execute the next day. He was also part of the team that built and drove Sojourner on Mars in 1997. (Another goodie from MemeStreams.)

[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma. ( Read more... )

Andrew Mishkin's blog about the Mars rover. He's on the team that works through the Martian night building command sequences for the rover to execute the next day. He was also part of the team that built and drove Sojourner on Mars in 1997. (Another goodie from MemeStreams.)

[from MemeStreams]
largest capacity available
The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive capacity available, packs an amazing 1 terabyte of storage space in a manageable 5.25" form factor. The LaCie Bigger Disk allows users to store nearly two years of continuous music and up to one month of non-stop MPEG-2 video.
FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0/1 ( Read more... )

Looking for a new weekend activity? Apparently psychedelic mushrooms are legal in England, if you buy them fresh, not dried or processed. And kits to grow your own are legal too.

And you may have already seen the Dave Barry Gift Guide. You can find pointers to such wonders as Caffeinated Soap, Bird Diapers, a Talking Toilet-Paper Dispenser, ( Read more... )

I have found a few interesting links from MemeStreams.

From Wired, there's 101 Ways to Save the Internet -- partly humorous, partly serious/practical/clever.

Judging from MemeStreams' user list, http://www.memestreams.net/users, there's 830 accounts on the site. (Text browsers are good tools for some kinds of research.) And only 91 of those ( Read more... )

I've just signed up for something called MemeStreams. It allows you to suggest web pages of interest by topic, and see the suggestions of other members by topic. As you use it, it learns which other members' suggestions you find most interesting, and tailors the future recommendations accordingly. It looks interesting, and maybe in a few weeks I ( Read more... )