Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Antivenom Shortages – Cost of Antivenom Production Creates Shortages – Popularmechanics.com – Not quite sure of the best answer here. Reduce the need for testing drugs? Compel production from private industry? Get the government into the drug manufacturing realm? Do nothing? All of these have some unfortunate consequences.
- Oil spill on ice not worth the risk | Analysis & Opinion | – “We’re the oil companies. Trust us.”
- NBC Cancels ‘Law & Order’ – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com – I’ve never been one to watch the show “live,” but have watched a zillion syndicated episodes, and have a few seasons on DVD. Truly a TV institution.
- Study Pokes Holes in Air Bag Standards – NYTimes.com – Who’d have thought that air bags were such a complex topic?
- Cars can be hacked – This only makes sense — and is pretty damned scary.
- On their way to getting married, a young couple is involved in a fatal car accident… – Ha!
- The difference between Wall Street and school teachers – Right. “Classroom teachers” = “educational bureaucracy,” and it’s better to lay off 300K teachers than spend any more money on “taxpayer-funded bailouts.” Got it, Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio).
- A ‘high point’ in government disaster response – If there’s anything that both liberals and teapartiers can agree upon, it’s that the feds should take the lead in assisting in disaster response. Another example of how elections change things.
- New Smokeless Smoking Device To Eliminate Second Hand Smoke – Assuming they don’t lock it down to a single, overpriced supplier (regionalized!), it’s got potential. And lack of second-hand smoke (and second-hand spit)are all Good Things.
- From a programming textbook – Nice. Funny and educational.
- Weird Clouds Look Even Better From Space – Lovely.
- Beautiful Little Island in a Lake – The photographer certainly likes this island, and that’s quite understandable. It has a sort of banzai look to it.
- this post is about sex (…sort of) – As someone with a girl just turning 10, consideration how we teach her to be a smart teen-ager (and adult), vs. simply assuming she’ll be stupid because of Evil Cultural Infuences, is certainly timely.
- Hp unlocks printer regionalisation – The Inquirer – Another great reason not to buy HP printers. I’m sure their argument is to make sure that their overpriced official ink isn’t being imported in from other areas (unless they’re getting a cut), but how many people would simply curse, shrug, and buy another (HP) printer?
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Jesus wanders down to the Pearly Gates as says to St Peter ‘Take a Holiday- you’ve done this job for so long’. Pete says cheers, and heads for the clubs in Ibiza.
So Jesus is standing there at the check in, when a little old man approaches.
“What did you do in life?” says Jesus.
“I was a carpenter.” This makes Jesus perk up, because he always knew it was a good idea to have the family trade to fall back on, in case the ‘messiah’ thing didn’t work out.
“Did you do anything exceptional?”
“Yes, I had a special son”
Jesus is getting very interested now. “What was he like.”
“Oh he was a magical boy, and who still has stories told about him to teach people about right and wrong. He is famous all over the world.”
Jesus flings his hands out wide “FATHER”
The old man shed a tear of emotion…
“Pinnochio?”
Sigmund Freud dies, and finds himself at the Pearly Gates.
“Thank Heavens you’re here” says St Peter “because He’s begun to think He’s Margaret Thatcher”