Now you can earn a few quick millions just solving some simple math problems -- you know, like proving P!=NP or the Riemann zeta function hypothesis. There's even a damn book to "help you get started."

In a curious reversal, Ha'aretz has a picture of angry Israeli settlers (part of a funeral procession) throwing rocks at Palestinians. These crazy fucks were -- get this -- part of an illegal settlement, living in houses made of "truck containers, wood and stones collected from the hills." Maybe you'd move into a regular settlement cause the ( Read more... )

Time just came out with a special issueon mental health. It's surprisingly levelheaded and pro-treatment coming from such a mainstream source:

The brain, after all, is only another organ, and it operates on the same biochemical principles as the thyroid or the spleen. What we experience as feelings, good or bad, are at the cellular level no more ( Read more... )

There are Baja Fresh's in up here in KS! I don't know why, but seeing one here in the middle of winter creeped me out for some reason. I can only imagine them in California, populated by loud, semi-hip twentysomethings and Mexicans. What's worse, they coexist with the expanding Wafflehouse infestation. Last time I was here there one, now there ( Read more... )

Cheer up honey, I hope you can
There is something wrong with me.
My mind is filled with silvery stars,
honey kisses, clouds of fog.

Oh, distance has a way
of making love understandable.

It seems even in Olathe, Kansas, 801.11b is so widespread that I can get a good connection to some neighbor's system inside my house. Of course they have no security settings in place -- not like it'd matter if they did, the encryption is so poor it can be broken in minutes -- so my computer happily and automatically connects. Free internet!

I've been culling everyone's "best-of-2002" lists for good new music. If you're bored, I highly recommend yall check out ( Read more... )

"Apparently there will be a war. I think I know more or less when. It is not going to happen immediately," Ariel Sharon told Channel Two television on Tuesday... Israel's military intelligence chief told lawmakers any U.S. assault on Iraq is likely to be in early February, parliament's spokesman said on Wednesday.

I just had to take an online test at http://www.brainbench.com on C++. Now I know C++, and I can do anything in a reasonable person can. Yet this test was over the most obscure, useless technical aspects -- and STL/templates, which never fucking worked when I was coding. If A inherits from ( Read more... )

This may be premature, but within twelve (12) hours of hooking up with a Chicago recruiting agency, they called me claiming to have a position I seemed 'perfect' for. It may not pay that great, but hell, quick turnaround is what I'm all about now. I pray to every god I know that I don't get shut down in later interview stages...