“The world risks losing new medical treatments for osteoporosis, cancer and other human ailments if it does not act quickly to conserve the planet’s biodiversity, a senior United Nations environmental official said Wednesday.” Full Slice

a tooth is like a twip
five percent of a cent
an improvement on thou

$1,000,000 is the minimum bid. Please submit bids to rcahn@baloney.com.

According to this full slice of baloney, NASA intends to “put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program’s budget” The rovers are no good if they can’t move. Why not sell them to the highest bidder on something such as EBay? I would imagine that such a sale would include access to the control rooms for the two rovers until they fail and rights to all NASA controlled technology used.

NOTE:  According to a thinner slice of baloney, NASA “has absolutely no plan to turn off either of the Mars Rovers because of budget cuts”.

the airtanker deal was awarded to EADS was specifically to bring to light McCain’s lobbying to support a non-US (hah!) company in favor of US based (hah!) Boeing.  Karl Rove knows that McCain will lose so much support (maybe even dropping out) so that the nominating convention must put forth a Rove approved replacement candidate.  Who might that be?

well fuck you dean
who the hell do you think you are?
you’ll fuck our genes
who the hell do you think you are?
you think we’re memes
Who the hell do you think you are?
and less life means.

Few people have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced the smell of space. Now this sounds strange, that a vacuum could have a smell and that a human being could live to smell that smell. It seems about as improbable as listening to sounds in space, yet space has a definite smell.

“Calendars might have read Friday, the first, but for many on Puget Sound freeways it seemed a lot more like the 13th.

There was the carjacking, the stabbing and the high-speed chase on Interstate 90 heading east from Seattle. Then there was a rolling domestic violence episode that sent a car weaving down the busy freeway.

Oh, and that 25-car pileup that closed Interstate 5 for hours just south of Tumwater, and a crash that blocked southbound I-5 during the afternoon commute in Seattle.

“It was a crazy day,” said Trooper Jeff Merrill, a State Patrol spokesman and one of several officers who helped arrest the carjacking suspect. “I don’t know what happened out there.” ” Full Slice

Do people pay attention or might a scenario something like “On The Beach” be more likely ?

Considering what he “does for a living” I think Mr. van der Veer is being as honest as he can be but will the response be sane or not.

Of course the real issue is how do “the plans” deal with this which was mentioned in responses to the post about the next steps moving into space.

Is it possible for us all to actually have a real dialog and come to some consensus on action or not ? Of course it is. How probable ?

We shall see

Conservation fails
Reduction is the only hope
The individual rails
But exceptions are a slippery slope

Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant after she suffered liver failure. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney’s Westmead Children’s Hospital were amazed to find the teenager’s blood group had changed to the donor’s blood type.

Further tests revealed the stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated her bone marrow.

Dr Michael Stormon says he and his colleagues were even more surprised when they found the girl’s immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs.

abc.net.au

I guess it really hadn’t occured to me that people would starting heavily searching for “Assassinate Obama“. Kinda sad really, but meme evolution is kinda brutal.

I sure hope 2008 is better than 2007 (We’re gonna miss you Bob Jacoby)

Let’s do that by not nominating any candidate before the start of the Republicant and Democrap Conventions.  At least it will make for good TV.

Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it. (Compare the cost of paying and feeding someone to do a few weeks of P* hacking to the full cost of the meetings that went into a big company decision.)

Don’t overplan something. Just do it half-assed to start with, then throw more people at it to fix it if it works.

From linuxworld

Elon Musk has been busy.

Elon is a rich techie who is spending his money the way I like to think I would spend it, if I were a rich techie. I’m merely a dealing-with-it dilettante, so I “spend” by virtue of deferring the larger monetary compensations, while flogging my curiosity as a scholar-in-training.