December 2007 Archives
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Adam Curtis exposes the public manipulation we sense but usually don't understand. His BBC documentaries are legendary in Britain but practically unknown in the US. An American network executive who wouldn't even let his name be used said "we would be cru
When entering a HEX WEP key, it needs to be preceeded by a $ and all in caps.
Like pTerry, I aten't dead. The long hard slog down under is finished for the moment and we're off en famille to visit the ancestral pile. I get to go from Queensland in the summer to Ireland in the Winter in the space of a week. Niiiiiice.
Unfortunately, we have go there via the armpit of the known universe, London Heathrow (LHR), usually voted "worst airport in the world".
I haven't been through that place for nearly ten years, and it was a chaotic and poorly managed mess back then too. I doubt that it's improved, and they seem to have adopted the American attitude to security: Let's force people to abide by stupid rules and have thugs with guns shouting at stressed passengers. It's only when you deal with security theatre in other places that you realize just to calm and efficient Hong Kong International Airport really is.
Here's hoping we get through unscathed, and I'm looking forward to a piont mór dubha as we'd say back home if anyone actually spoke the First Official Language.
Oh, and the pint is Murphy's, not that foul Dublin muck.
UPDATE: We're here, and LHR was a surprisingly efficient experience. I was quite surprised by it really, as I was expecting the worst.
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GEORGE W. BUSH [POTUS] Should tell reporters he’s read “Ender’s Game,” by Orson Scott Card: A gifted child from a privileged family defeats a race of inhuman warriors without ever having to leave the comfort of his war-simulator machine.
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Particularly damning were comments by lawmaker for the social welfare sector Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung [...] The girl, now eight, had improved markedly since she left the family and was displaying no signs of physical or mental disabilities or problems...
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The true photo-geek is incapable of humiliation
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Terry Pratchett, the bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy books, is suffering from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's.
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South Korean consulate officials are wondering why a Dutch couple who adopted a Korean baby, rejected her seven years later. The adoptive parents, a Dutch diplomat and his wife have cited cultural shock and the girl's unwillingness to eat the food they p
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A RADICAL Christian group with the ear of prominent politicians has blamed "sinful" Australians for the nation's record drought.
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The wife since had two children and decided to hand the girl to social workers because the diplomat said the adoption had gone wrong, the Sunday Morning Post reported.
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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at this from the perspective of immunization information and finds that the cranks may be winning; videos with a negative depiction of immunizations had higher ratings and more vi
What kind of drooling cretin would take medical advice from a YouTube clip?
Or: Security Theatre in Action
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A sequel to the blockbuster thriller The Da Vinci Code is set to lift the veil on mysterious Freemason symbols carved into the very fabric of the historic streets and buildings of the US capital.
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A little Tron lovin' (via MacBreak Weekly)
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When the fundies are all taken up by the Rapture, can we have their Stuff?
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(via making light)
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