String Ducky!
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:27:00 GMT
eventually, we'll all be on it...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:55:00 GMT
The government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list’s effectiveness.The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 names a year since 2004. Some lawmakers, security experts and civil rights advocates warn that it will become useless if it includes too many people.
“It undermines the authority of the list,” says Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies. “There’s just no rational, reasonable estimate that there’s anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists.”
waves! in clouds!
Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:36:00 GMT
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/images/undularbore/saylorville_timelapse.mov
Certainly sexier than Tina.....
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:04:00 GMT
More IRV info...
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:00 GMT
Cary, North Carolina is the latest city to move to instant runoff voting and have an extremely positive experience—see this exit poll. Some key findings:
- 82% found IRV “very easy” to understand, and an additional 14% said it was “somewhat easy to understand”—a total of 96% saying it was not hard to understand
- Of those with a preference between IRV and the former runoff system,72% supported IRV
- Quoote: “The study found no significant differences between different types of voters in their understanding or preference for IRV: whites and non-whites, males and females, lower- and higher-income voters all evaluated IRV roughly equally.”
In the one race was an instant runoff was triggered, 92% of voters in the first round cast a valid vote in the final round. Given that this was a down-ballot race, with a hotly contested race for mayor decided in the first round, it was certainly higher turnout than would have occurred with a traditional runoff. It also acted as meaningfuol campaign finance reform, as candidates have been spending a lot money in Cary elections and would have to spend money in the runoff.
Instant Runoff Voting in the news...
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:11:00 GMT
Spooney supports it, so should you…
You can read the in the news bit here
You can learn more here
I like mine with butter and garlic...
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:59:00 GMT
back in the bygone days of college and drugs and spooney giving away free acid, i had a general policy… some people shouldn’t be given much less do psychedelics. they didn’t have the psyche for it. spend some time with certain people and you knew they would lose their shit and faster than you can say fucked then cops would be at my door… well apparently, all those ass monkeys went to the netherlands to get what i wouldn’t give em…
The Dutch government is banning the sale of all magic mushrooms after a series of high-profile incidents involving tourists who had taken them.
i have a use!
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:56:00 GMT
its so good to have a purpose….
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That’s the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week.
wrap your mind around this...
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:47:00 GMT
lacking in peer review as it is…
It don’t get much weirder than this. The universe is about to lose its dimension of time says a group of theoretical astrobods at the University of Salamanca in Spain. And they got the evidence to prove it.
pussy-thon
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:07:00 GMT
this is nothing compared to the conditions extreme runners work under… if you aren’t smart enough to stop… blah blah… natural selection… blah blah
A Michigan police officer died and dozens of others needed medical care while running the Chicago Marathon as record heat and smothering humidity forced race organizers to shut down the course midway through the event.