Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Is Marriage Good Or Bad For Your Weight? A Comparison By Countries

"Although these differences may seem small, they are meaningful. In an average-height woman of 165 cm or an average-height man of 180 cm, they represent a difference of about 2 kg." A difference of 4 lbs is meaningful? What BS. I weigh myself everyday - over the course of a week, my weight varies by 4 lbs even though the long term average is now pretty stable.
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How Walking in Nature Prevents Depression

Why I prefer walking in the forest preserve to the treadmill.
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Mary Fallin: Country's worst governor?

Give Rammer some time time - he will be a strong contender for the title. #IllinoisPride
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The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report

And this is the plane that we sold to Israel. It's a lemon - and a very expensive one, at that!
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Your Dog Will Definitely Not Hate This Weird Water Wand

A new breakthrough in Technology Lisa Moss Karen Moss this is for you :-)
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Monday, June 29, 2015

PBS

A must watch view of one of the USA's many realities. I'm watching it now.
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It is interesting to note how close the methods of Islamic legal theory are to the methods of the scholars who wrote the Talmud - and how similar most of the conclusions are. http://ift.tt/1InW17M
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

It Turns Out We Really Didn't Know What People Are Dying From

"fancy math" - WTF does that mean? Why are journalists so afraid of mathematics that they use fancy prose to describe it?
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Watch: Sir David Attenborough in conversation with President Obama

If I retain all my marbles as well as Attenborough has, I will be happy. If I don't, I will still be happy because I will not know.
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Here’s why heavy metal is good for you

Kimmi Themetaldeli Rudolph this is for you :-)
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

ChildsPlay

I can see why this guy feels that he must carry a gun!
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Fox Host On Marriage Equality Decision: "What's To Prevent" 3 People From Getting Married Now?

Actually, Fox has a point. Biblically, it was OK to go with multiple wives accompanied by concubines - and still is, in some cultures. I think that the Government should keep out of sex and marriage. It is none of their business. In other news, heard at my wife's nail salon: "My brother is going to be pissed at this ruling. He is gay and he does NOT want to marry his partner. There is going to be a huge fight!"
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How a driverless car sees the road

Its coming to a road near you...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

SCOTUS Ruling Fallout

We should have had a single payer system covering everybody (aka "SOCIALISM" by the the right wing crazies) but at least this is is better than the previous system. The idea that healthcare should be available only to those who can pay for it is not in line with the values of a caring society.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Bourbon Pulled Brisket

This is going on my "To Cook" list!
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On Demand Parking & Valet Services - Luxe Valet

The next great disruptor? Or just an automated way to call someone to steal your car?
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Why some people can get away with so little sleep

"But when a 2013 study tried to replicate many of the previously reported correlations between length of sleep and genes, using the DNA and self-reported sleeping habits of some 5,000 people, it failed." So all the rest of the article is likely false?
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Study: Employees Happiest When Pretending To Work From Home

it is getting more difficult to distinguish between the Onion and News
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Pope: 'Great Powers' Did Nothing When Jews Were Taken To Auschwitz

It's a good question - but look at the crazies in the comments attacking him for asking!
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A “view” from the Courtroom: A web of intrigue as the Term winds down

"From the bench, Kagan quotes Justice Louis D. Brandeis on the importance of stare decisis, emphasizing that it is more important that “the law be settled than that it be settled right.” Only a lawyer could believe that!
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Oren Agonistes

"It illustrates a vitally important dimension of the U.S.-Israel relationship as it exists right now — the breakdown between the views of the current Israeli leadership and many in the Israeli establishment, and the views of not only the current U.S. leadership but also many in the Jewish American community."
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Unarmed man flags down LAPD seeking help. They shoot him in the head.

Do the police have a training problem? Or is it just plain stupidity? Be careful if you want the police to help you.
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Millennials' Political Views Don't Make Any Sense

We are doomed! “…Millennials offer the murky impression of a generation that doesn't really understand basic economics. To be fair, neither do most Americans. Or many economists, perhaps. Or most journalists.”
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Jailhouse nation

Something needs to be done!
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Four Hour Meeting

My life as it used to be...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Apple Inc. is hiring journalists who want to work 40 hours a week.

Apple going for human curation va Google and Facebook automation?
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Robert Scoble's 22 Tips for Better Facebook Engagement

Mostly aimed at business use of Facebook - but some points are generally useful
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Thinking about cutting the cable cord? Here's how.

I think ATT and Comcast will be coming after me!
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Scott Adams Blog

I love this guy!
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Maybe We Should Make A Smartwatch

The Internet comment stream. in short.
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King Edward was apparently pro-Nazi, wanted England bombed

Hardly a surprise. The British Royal Family is a renamed German family.
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Spotify CEO's two-word response to Apple Music

Not in the same space. I use Spotify to listen to what I want to hear. Apple Music is just radio over a new channel. Maybe the kids want radio!
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If your Mac or iThing runs Yosemite or iOS 8, it can run El Capitan and iOS 9

It speaks to the maturity of the consumer technology that six to eight year old hardware is supported by current software.
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What Does the Western Look Like?

Interesting. The single frame summaries look like some of the abstract art I have seen in galleries,
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Sunday, June 07, 2015

Comic for June 07, 2015

You know who you are :-)
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Poor lifestyle choices can be passed onto future generations through DNA

What I do after the kids are born gets a free pass :-)
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14 distinctive South African dishes

Some of these dishes were invented after I left!
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Friday, June 05, 2015

7 into 28

How Congress sets the U.S. budget.
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My New Thoughts on Google Photos After Digging Around for a Week

I have loaded up a couple thousand pics (with almost no work on my part) and #4 is the killer function.
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Scalia's perfect capital-punishment case falls apart

State sanctioned murder is not a good thing, especially in the light of a justice system designed to to convict people.
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Taking on the Jewish Anti-Obama 'Ingrates'

About time someone took a public stand like this!
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Here's what 2 big new reports on police killings tell us

Both left and right will find stats here to support their beliefs.
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Judges Considering Criminal Probe Into Scott Walker May Be Implicated In Same Offense

Golly gosh golly gee. The system is corrupt. Who would have thunk it?
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Podcasts | cbc.ca Podcasts | CBC Radio

A great view of the future from the perspective of an advertising pro. I listen to him weekly.
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The look of a leader

"The Economist" is taking a lot of crap in the comments - but based on my admittedly anecdotal experience, they are spot on - except in the case of founders of corporations who become CEOs. They come in all sizes and shapes.
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The plight of the Rohingyas

Minorities are in trouble all over the world. Neither democracies nor dictatorships are structured to help them. Monarchies also do not do well :-(
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Monday, June 01, 2015

Facing medical bills, physicist Lederman sells Nobel for $765k

Says a lot about the medical care system in the USA!
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You Need More Dark Meat Chicken in Your Life; Here Are 25 Recipes

I never thought that I would say this - but no more breasts!
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Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms

...and after it is measured it exists only in the past. The past cannot be visited, so reality actually never exists.
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