I need to use BlogRolling. It just really irritates me that they, like every other web service out there, doesn't provide https log in. I _really_ don't feel like sending my username and password over sniffable networks y'know? That way madness and identity theft lies.
So I am reading Reason's Brickbats section and I come across this entry which is about a story in an Ontario newspaper wherein a high school student who was given a 1 day suspension for jaywalking on the way home from school. It includes this quote:
Her mother says school officials told her the school day doesn't end until the student is back in the house. She asked if the school would be liable if her daughter had been hit by a car or mugged or raped after she left school. "What I was told was, 'Let's not get carried away,'" said Jackie Simo.Brickbats kinda reminds me of Ananova's Quirkies.
The Social Future as seen by six SF Writers: Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling and Ken Wharton
The World's Shortest Blog ... amusing. I wonder if Kerry will take him up on it.
More on that Paris underground movie story.
Passion runs rampant in the land of shotgun weddings. For those who view Deliverance as semi-autobiographical.
Sound pretty cool. The article also has a link to an Australian government project to use bacteria to clean up oil spills.
In contrast to Bush's exceptionally weak proposal, the U.S. congress has responded to the 9/11 report by calling for a Civil Liberties board that actually has some power.
So, there's this guy, right? And he has made a map. Stupid comments about world geography ("How long does it take to drive to Japan from Texas?") have been incorporated. Reality is shifting.
New Scientist has an article about how a ship with a wavy hull reduces the size of the wash the ship produces, and also reduces the energy cost of plowing through other waves. The kids designing boats for the America's Cup are no doubt quite curious.
OK, go to allmusic and click on one of the entries in the "explore by..." box in the left column. Check out the cool flash menu. Now imagine if the menu was zoomable like the stuff they talk about at TouchGraph. That would be sweet.
