Links With Your Coffee - Friday
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We have a hostage situation. The hostages are American soldiers. It is George Bush holding them hostage.
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Corporate hegemony, congressional greed, yes even John Murtha has his finger in the stew, and the American people get fucked one more time.
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(tip to Peter L.)
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"In your heart, you know he's trite": Re-elect George W. Bush
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a couple of limericks
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Biblical Archeology Society (tip to Herman)
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We only get week?
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How sad.
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Short Stories
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For many entomologists, the bee crisis is a wake-up call. By relying on a single species for pollination, US agriculture has put itself in a precarious position, they say. A resilient agricultural system requires diverse pollinators.
Comments
"Fun Fact: Iran is a theocracy, so religious fanatics control the government—like Alabama, only without delicious pork BBQ."
Now THAT'S funny.
That's what we call the news... Just what I was thinking about this morning. Funny clip, but very sad situation.
Thanks for linking What We Call The News!
Norm,
Thanks for sharing xkcd with us. I went through all the strips they had and found one that fits with the Facts vs. Faith article.
http://xkcd.com/c54.html
What a terrific send-off for this new storytelling blog, Norm.
Thank you so much.
In response to the JIN article, it's sad but this crap has been going on for a very long time (well before 9/11). I spent a year working for an awful company whose main source of income was military contracts to make technology that would never possibly be useful to anyone, ever. The decision makers spend very little time actually looking at the technology proposed, and apparently even less time looking at any given company's track record, considering the number of failures put out by this one. And they're really happy if you can give them a new toy to play with.
One of my favorite examples is the missile tracking program we were supposed to work on. I spent a great deal of time incorporating realistic physics to simulate the flight path of a given missile. Then I was told to throw all of that out, make it pretty, and allow the user to control the flight of the missile with arrow keys.
In other words, we made a crappy but slightly amusing flight simulator program; a flight simulator stuck in "cheat" mode, where the laws of physics mean nothing and fuel never runs out.
This really didn't bother me too much, because I would rather produce non-working tech for the military than actually help the military in any way, since I am a pacifist, but I'd much rather see that sort of budget disappear rather than being wasted.
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