Apr 28 2008
Archive for April, 2008
Apr 24 2008
Food Rationing in America (wow!)
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Rice in short supply at Costco, Sam’s Club
Global food shortages: a ’silent tsunami’ Due to skyrocketing rice prices, Liberians are switching to pasta and learning how to twirl spaghetti on a fork. In India, the government has restricted rice exports, and moms are choosing between eating and paying for their children’s schooling. Meanwhile in the United States, Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club warehouse stores are limiting the sale of 20-pound (9 kg) bags of jasmine, basmati, and long-grain white rice to four per customer. In the developed world, food shortages might be overhyped. The head of the California Rice Commission told Reuters, “Bottom line, there is no rice shortage in the United States. We have supplies.” Plus, how many Americans buy 80 pounds of rice per shopping trip? (Apparently, it’s restaurant owners and small-business owners who typically buy in bulk.) But for people in developing countries, outrageous food prices and shortages are a serious reality. Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, which provides food aid to the needy, told FP in this week’s Seven Questions, “This is a silent tsunami.” Video, audio, and prepared remarks from her recent talk on global food insecurity at the Center for Strategic and International Studies is also available here. By the way, if you want to help hungry people get rice, play the Free Rice vocabulary game.
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Apr 17 2008
Comcast makes good on projected price increases
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How much does Comcast think their service is worth?!?! Maybe they’ll knock off a mil with the service combo discount.
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Apr 15 2008
Windows “Workstation” 2008
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I was recently sent a link by a colleague about using Windows Server 2008 and a workstation operating system. Interestingly enough, the suggestion originated from within Microsoft. I’ve seen a couple articles about it (here and here), so I decided to try it myself. Boy, they are right, it is a heck of a lot faster, even with the Aero theme enabled. There are a couple of ideas floating around about why it is so much faster. One is the lack of DRM in Server 2008. From what I’ve seen, that is very probable, because it seems that many software companies stop at nothing to foist DRM upon its users. I understand that effort and resources are put where the money comes from, but it’s getting rediculous already. I’m with Linus Torvalds on the whole DRM issue, “If somebody wants to do DRM it is their problem. I don’t want anything to do with it.” Anywho, I’m going to stick with what works. Microsoft screwed the pooch on Vista, so Server 2008 it is. If you try, be sure to follow the link to the Microsoft blog above; the engineer has some things listed that are essential for normal desktop operation. |
Apr 09 2008
Baby with two faces worshipped as goddess
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Full Story here
SAINI SUNPURA, India (AP) — A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday. The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali’s facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes. “My daughter is fine — like any other child,” said Vinod Singh, 23, a poor farm worker. Lali has caused a sensation in the dusty village of Saini Sunpura, 25 miles east of New Delhi. When she left the hospital, eight hours after a normal delivery on March 11, she was swarmed by villagers, said Sabir Ali, the director of Saifi Hospital. “She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time,” Ali said. Rural India is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms. Up to 100 people have been visiting Lali at her home every day to touch her feet out of respect, offer money and receive blessings, Singh told AP. “Lali is God’s gift to us,” said Jaipal Singh, a member of the local village council. “She has brought fame to our village.” Village chief Daulat Ram said he planned to build a temple to Durga in the village. “I am writing to the state government to provide money to build the temple and help the parents look after their daughter,” Ram said. Lali’s condition is often linked to serious health complications, but the doctor said she was doing well. “She is leading a normal life with no breathing difficulties,” said Ali, adding that he saw no need for surgery. Lali’s parents were married in February 2007. Lali is their first child. Singh said he took his daughter to a hospital in New Delhi where doctors suggested a CT scan to determine whether her internal organs were normal, but Singh said he felt it was unnecessary. “I don’t feel the need of that at this stage as my daughter is behaving like a normal child, posing no problems,” he said |
Apr 05 2008
Bush’s war on PBS
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Apr 02 2008
World’s tallest dog!
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7ft tall when standing up. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/04/01/cooper.shot.monday.cnn?iref=mpvideosview |