New Scientist & Nature haven't picked up on this yet but Ronald Evans at the Salk Institute has discovered that dietary supplements of a protein called PPAR-delta increases slow-twitch muscle mass and prevents weight gain on a high-fat diet and massively improves endurance in normal subjects (mice). So. Gimme an order of ribs and fries, but make sure the BBQ sauce has lots of PPAR-delta and alpha-amylase inhibitors.
It looks really cool, photogenic even, but I'm scared of heights and driving across it would creep me out. Very impressive though. The bridge, not my driving across it.
I didn't mention this before cuz I'm lazy. I don't play, but it is still stupid - Marvel sues Citry of Heroes for infringement.
Models of the human body - scaled to a size based on sensory/movement connections in the cortex.
Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly comments on an Economist article concerning executive pay. In 1991 CEOs of large corporations in the US recieved 140 x the median corporate wage. Today it is 500 x. Not 500 x the lowest paid employee, 500 x the median.
So, if you were thinking of buying your monkey an iPod for Christams, don't.
And the rethink composes of: "You didn't say what we should retain. We think all ISPs should retain everything". Right. Good idea. Archive all traffic in and out. What a clever idea. Of course, neither the original nor the new proposal actually say - This will solve problem X by ... They just assume that everyone will agree that archiving all traffic every where will make everyone safer from the terrorists! Uhuh.
freepress.org reports on the fallout from the shenanigans in Ohio on 2 Nov, 2004.
I do not understand how it can be acceptable that person responsible for running the election can also be the person in charge of one candidates campaign. Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004. Why aren't people complaining much more loudly about this blindingly obvious conflict-of-interest.
In which our hero writes an essay on the difference between music piracy and thievery and the teacher fails him because they don't beleive that there is any difference.
More heart-warming tales from our neighbourly Christian red-state brethren (I'm thinking that the red vs blue thing has crystallized as of this election). An article/a> describing an amusing little pamphlet that was included in an American History high-school curriculum to provide both viewpoints: the north and the south. Excerpts of interest:
Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.
There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.
Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.
But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends.
Hee hee.
So responsive! You do realize that they are making an http request with every key you type?
