The older I get, the more I start to wonder at how some athletes can keep going as they do. Here is a list of baseball’s current iron men.
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FT.com / UK – Microsoft primes search engine in pursuit of Google
From the Pointless Task desk, Microsoft thinks it can reinvent their search wheel.
First off: why bother? Live was, is, and probably always will be crap. I’d have better luck searching for useful results with a scrying bowl. And I’m no sorceror.
Second, most of the damn planet is trained to use Google. Accept that. Move on.
Third. I take it all back. This should be funny as hell to watch Microsoft spend billions to fall on it’s face again. And again.
I mean, they are losing the ad war to Apple when the Mac is an overpriced piece of eye candy with proprietary hardware. How do you not beat that in the marketplace of ideas? Even with buggy software. They’ve lost the geek crowd almost entirely to Linux. Seriously, give out some free OSes, open it up, and let the hobby crowd fix your errors for you. THEN sell it to Grandma in a prepackaged box at Beast Buy. Come on!
Microsoft: too big to fall, but not so big that their screwups can be covered up.
Polaroid Lovers Try to Revive Its Instant Film – NYTimes.com
There’s a difference between clinging to the past at the expense of progress (re: any example of conservatism in America) and hoping to keep a small piece of the past alive.
The latter example lies with the folks in this article who are trying to recreate Polaroid film so they can keep snapping pictures.
Good luck to them.
Hubble’s final servicing mission – The Big Picture – Boston.com
These are amazing pics taken from the recent shuttle mission that finally made it home on Sunday.
Whatever happened to the American imagination? We should be colonizing the local planets, not quibbling over whether or nation should be partaking in barbaric torture rituals. We’ve fallen far from Camelot folks. Someone needs to take our Luddite Talibangelical Quislings aside and beat them silly for sullying our nation’s good name.
StarWars.com | Checklist: Five Westerns Every Star Wars Fan Should See
I thought this was an interesting and relevant link, seeing as I’ve been doodling in a list of stuff to show Gabriel as he grows up.
As most folks know, certain themes permeate all sci-fi, westerns, fantasy movies and so on. The folks at the Star Wars site are just being honest about some of the Westerns that are inspirations for the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
How Google Earth explains the financial crisis | FP Passport
This article is pretty instructive in both how bad the global economy has gotten and in how good our tools for analyzing such things beyond what the Dow is at have gotten.
For one night, Jayson Werth goes klepto on the basepaths – Big League Stew – MLB – Yahoo! Sports
I only saw the highlights of this, but a pretty amazing feat nonetheless. Check out the story and video.
A dweeb’s debate: 10 Reasons ‘Star Wars’ is better than ‘Star Trek’ – Project Mayhem
There’s a lot of chatter about Star Trek lately. And that’s fine; more power to them.
That said, let’s make sure we know what sci-fi franchise is on town and, more importantly, why it is the superior piece of the genre.
Special Tools Required For Last Call To Hubble : NPR
Yes, tools amaze me. I’m a gear geek and these one-of-a-kind Hubble fix-it tools are pretty damn cool in my book.
The Volokh Conspiracy – When and Why did the Federation Turn Socialist? – A Question I Hope Will be Answered in the New Star Trek Movie:
I knew some conservatives were batsh!t crazy about labelling everything they don’t agree with socialism, but this attack on Star Trek is pretty out there. Seriously, read this idiot and his commenting hack followers.
God forbid such a world with no hunger or want or racism/sexism/etc. exists. Oh, the tyranny of no large corporations to poison our waters, abuse our citizenry, or corrupt our leaders! Seriously folks, if the GOP is against THIS kind of world view, I really think anyone who still votes for these clowns deserves all the misery they get.
I honestly DO actually agree with the premise however. The Federation probably is a socialist collective, but in more the Scandinavian sense than in the mutation the Soviets tried. I really don’t know why you would be against health care and child care and free education. I really don’t know where the evil is in talking to people you don’t agree with. I mean, the worst that can happen is that you – gasp! – learn something from another point of view. Which, as I understand it, is against everything in the Republican platform.
Look, let’s let these folks be honest with themselves. Stop charging them taxes. All taxes. That way, you can pull them over EVERY DAY for not driving a car with tags. Oh, and charge them for the time wasted by the police officer. If their house is on fire, put it out for the sake of the community, but charge them, what?, half a million? If a burglar is in their house, don’t send a cop until the $50,000 fee has cleared the bank. Their children can’t go outside as they are unregistered and haven’t had their shots. They can’t shop at a store because they won’t pay sales tax.
If they COULD go overseas, they have no consulate to run to in times of trouble. Hell, they wouldn’t even have a passport as they wouldn’t properly be American citizens. Actually, by the rules their PATRIOT Act loving officials put into place, they couldn’t even leave the country.
And eventually, they couldn’t even vote.
I say we do this. Let them live the courage of their convictions. Since they refuse to pay taxes they wouldn’t even be able to hold jobs. Or keep a home. They’d be even more of a drag on society than the illegal aliens they use as handy scapegoats. At least THEY pay taxes and do so without bitching about it. Even when they’ll never see the benefits of pitching into Social Security.
That said, I don’t want to see my few Republican family members showing up at my doorstep. Your “rugged individual” ass WILL be taken to the nearest nursery or Lowe’s the next morning and you WILL be roofing, tiling, planting, or whatnot to earn your keep.