Slow to Start Today
Just How Hard?
Ganked from winds_of_change: Sensors Track Martial Arts Blows Researchers from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Stanford University, and Impact Measurement have brought computers into a martial arts sparring ring with a system that senses the force of a hit. The…
Notice: Officially Insane
We’re looking at Great Pyrenees on a local rescue group’s web site, and curiousmay9 and I have fallen in love. Hopelessly. Sam has much subjected to much squealing of “PUPPY!” and so on. We were going to wait at least…
WWBD?
What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide by Jana Riess “At last, a Buffy book as smart as Buffy, the show. Riess has given us the key to understanding the subtle theology of slayage, but her book…
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There are SUPPOSED to be random quotes appearing on http://www.technomom.com/hs/index.html. I’m just seeing a little box right now. I added five quotes to the quotes file (which is embedded in the page). I don’t see any errors in it, but…
QOTD: John Holt
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. Leadership…
Outsourcing Irony
If you piss off your IT staff, maybe you should be a bit more careful about what they can find on your hard drive. Outsourced IT staff fingered porn stash banker By Lucy Sherriff Porn-surfing bank supremo Michael Soden was…
A Little History for ShadowKatt:
The White Mouse: World War II’s most decorated woman
Reagan is Dead
I recall the Reagan years through a filter, since I was only 14 when they started. I actually got to ask him a question during a press conference once—televised on C-Span, even. (He didn’t answer the question I asked, but…
What a Cute Little Net Newbie
Someone kicked off the Atlanta Freecycle list for making misleading requests says she’s suing me for “liable.” I told her to have a blast. She emailed me the photo from the WHOA site along with my PO address as if…