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Bloggers Are A Little Less Under The Constitution?

Dec 08 2011 | comment(s)

Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that were made from whole cloth - but bloggers are not under that umbrella.

Uber-progressive Oregon is, no surprise, not on the side of the little guy here and instead went with the most expensive attorney. U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez declared last week that a blogger does not get the same protection as a journalist and so can be sued for defamation.

BeautifulPeople.Com Thinks The Virgin Mary Was One Of Its Members

Dec 05 2011 | comment(s)

BeautifulPeople.com, the dating community exclusively for good-looking people, is offering the chance to win a date with Joseph and the Virgin Mary - namely by spending a lot of money. Well, not really the Virgin Mary, they don't want frogs raining on you or locusts infesting your kitchen this Christmas season.

Instead, they are shamelessly whoring themselves, and willing attention-whore members, out in a vaguely disconcerting publicity stunt. They convinced their members Heather and Dorion, who also appear as the parents of Jesus in their website's Nativity scene, to take one for the team and go on a date with whoever wins the auction, including *gasp*, an ugly person, should they be rich.

Cancer Screening: Changing Hype To Hope

Nov 27 2011 | comment(s)

A problem began to come into existence a few decades ago and in the polarized climate enabled by instant access to partisan spin, it's only going to get worse.

The problem isn't always that people are anti-science, though documenting the numerous instances of global warming deniers on one side and anti-science hippies on the other is always fun, it may be that people accept science too much - and there is a backlash on the way because people don't always understand that accepting science isn't always going to mean things don't change when new information comes to light.

Google Exits Alternative Energy (And Other Dodgy Ideas)

Nov 23 2011 | comment(s)

Google is doing some spring cleaning and booted seven projects that were outside what they regard as their core business, the most high-profile of which was its attempt to make solar energy cheaper than coal.

Tent or Tetrahedron?

Nov 20 2011 | comment(s)

My younger kids each have a personal-sized dry erase white board and markers they use to draw things. They make Transformers or cities or cities full of Transformers.

Yesterday, my 8-year-old son drew a tetrahedron on his and the word 'tet' and I was intrigued by that. It was simple to be sure but it was a triangular-based period to me. Tetrahedra have a special place in my heart. As a young guy in finite element analysis, for a brief time in the mechanical world and then in electrical, creating a mesh is vital.

Study You Don't Need To Read - Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting

Nov 19 2011 | comment(s)

A study in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by some folks at University of Notre Dame conducted three experiments and concluded that if you walk into a room and forget what you came to do, the doorway is responsible.

The environment can likely affect memory, we get that - I have often forgotten to take out the garbage even though my wife insists she told me to do so, because I was playing my PS3 - but doorways as 'event boundaries' means we can get away with almost anything. The doorway to a strip club can be attributed to forgetting you are not allowed to go to those, for example; "But honey, it was in a journal".