July 9, 2009
If you're a pharmacist, you have to dispense, no matter what your religion says. Don't like it, get a new job!

This is GOOD news. Pharmacists, who have to be licensed and registered by the government, can be compelled by the same government to dispense any and all legal medications. This includes Plan B.

Can Hindus will argue that they should be allowed to work in meat packing plants without getting fired for their religious beliefs? Can Christian Scientists get jobs in hospitals and refuse to administer treatment, but not get fired? If your religious beliefs prevent you from doing your job GET A NEW JOB.

ATM vendor pressures security researcher to not reveal #security flaw
Fun, isn’t it? A software vulnerability makes it possible for a malicious user to “jackpot” an ATM.
Headline: "Billions go to Counties that Supported Obama." Article: "Because they're urban and usually get more money."
July 8, 2009
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BRIAN KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species and other ethnics—

GRETCHEN CARLSON: Are you sure they are not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now?

BRIAN KILMEADE: The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that’s the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish.
Clearly, no one watches Fox News for intelligent commentary : Pharyngula
Is cloud computing inherently evil? (thanks for the link @exador23)

My answer? Yes. “Evil” is a strong term, but it’s a social and technological ill that operates inside the realm of some pretty bad assumptions and is, in general, just a bad idea.

I’ll be interested in cloud computing when “the cloud” lives on a box in my office.

July 7, 2009
My #Wife has content on the cover of the Planetary Society magazine
Minna entered a contest for a short submission- your favorite Hubble photo and why. Not only was her submission selected, it was chosen as the cover! Congrats!
July 5, 2009
“ No such thing as a liberal media. It was a myth then: Rich Bond, then chair of the Republican Party, explained during the 1992 election, “There is some strategy to [bashing the ‘liberal’ media]… . If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one.”
http://www.utne.com/2003-07-01/Myth-of-the-Liberal-Media.aspx “I admit it,” Bill Kristol told The New Yorker in 1995. “The whole idea of the ‘liberal media’ was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000313/alterman In 2000, newspaper publishers preferred Bush over Gore by 3 to 1.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/123102a.html And it’s a myth now.
FARK.com: (4489989) Political commentators: Sarah Palin has lost her mind. FoxNews: Sarah Palin is about to burst on the national scene
July 1, 2009
RoboGeisha: Seriously, Japan, WTF?
Oh, JAPAN.
June 29, 2009
If Microsoft’s software were half as entertaining as this ad, they’d have okay software. (via ie8videos)
“ Printing error Caldor relied heavily on a weekly multi-color sales flier to generate business. Fliers were distributed weekly to advertise sales that ran from Sunday through Saturday. In November 1998, the company suffered a public-relations blow, perhaps fatally, when its sales flier featured a prominent photograph of two grinning boys playing the board game “Scrabble” with the word “RAPE” spelled out in the center of the board. Eleven million copies of the flier were distributed to the public via an 85-newspaper distribution chain. Caldor released a statement pressing its mystification over how the image was created and got past proofreaders.[3][4]
Caldor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia