Backup Brain: Tom Negrino and Dori Smith on technology, culture, and politics
This is cool. It's a presumably-to-scale rendered 3-D representation of Earth to the other smaller planets in our Solar System; those planets to the larger planets; all planets to the Sun; and the Sun to really big stars. Check it out. (Via Paul Music.)
Read The Size Of Our World (Links)
And it looks like they've both hired the same dumbass consultant. They start out with a simple introduction, and then get right to the hard-hitting "poll questions," like "Do you agree that raising taxes is bad?" and "Do you believe that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman?"
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Read The usual slimy GOP game is on (Links)
In all of this, I've been too busy dealing with the reality of the situation to blog about it, so here's a quick recap for those of you (such as Kathy) who are following along (vicariously or otherwise). MacBook Pro : ExpressCard slot, lighted keyboard, better video (both internal and external).
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Read College Daze (Links)
For years, I've been puzzled that anyone could think of Camille Paglia as anything other than the preening, narcissistic fraud that she obviously is. I've always believed that if Paglia had been born a guy, she would be engaged in an endless attempt to suck her own penis.
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Read What She Said (Links)
As expected, it's the usual bullshit GOP orthodoxy: more Health Saving Accounts (HSA's). In other words, it's a typical Republican plan. | | | Update: Here is a post by one of Obama's health care advisors who presented with a McCain advisor on their competing plans.
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Read Want shitty health care? Vote McCain! (Links)
The post below about my experience at a health panel at SXSW may have left the impression that I'm opposed to Personal Health Records or its superset, Electronic Health Records. At the start of the panel, the moderator showed this video from one of the EHR vendors.
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Read Electronic health records: don't get me wrong (Links)
In last week's post, A Short Take on Shorting Women, I left off some things I meant to add, and found a few more worth adding: | | I'd meant to point to | | GeekSpeakr.com, which is a wonderful new resource for finding women speakers for tech conferences.
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Read Longer Shorting Women (Links)
I figure that it's an opportunity to get reacquainted with some old friends. | | | But it also points up some of the mistakes of the past, and how much my tastes have changed over the years. Haven't listened to it in years; didn't even know that I'd ever ripped it.
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Read The follies of youth (Links)
Oscar blogging should be starting very shortly.
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Read Live Oscar Blogging and Snarkfest (Links)
This one takes on the free marketeers and their spurious arguments about the healthcare market. | | | The private sector has had 20 years to prove that it could deliver low-cost, quality care using those vaunted business-style efficiencies; and it has failed us utterly and completely.
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Read Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II (Links)
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