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POPSHTML + CSS + Javascript + (lots of others) = NEWT Don't use HTML5 to refer to all new web technologies. It refers only to the latest HTML spec. But saying "HTML5 and related technologies doesn't roll off the tongue smoothly. So Bruce Lawson recommends this term instead: NEWT, which stands for New Exciting Web Technologies. I like it.
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POPSWould trying WikiLeaks founder under a new law be unconstitutional? (I am not a fan of the leaks.)
I do not question any of the discussed actions as a way of showing support for WikiLeaks. I think releasing those documents did and can do lots of damage, and while the dignitaries are being caught with their pants down, it isn't just they who will suffer as a result of this information being leaked. I am worried, though, that if the US government is doing what the article implies and I understand it, then this process could set a dangerous precedent -- just as dangerous as allowing the health insurance purchase mandate to stand. (If the government can make you buy health insurance, what stops them from making you buy something else?) Provided that the United States Constitution is the law of the land, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, in said Constitution states matter-of-factly: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." Ex post facto means "with retroactive effect or force." continued at http://amplify.com/u/i8w5
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POPSU.S. scientists reported to lead world in fake science Conflict of interest, anyone? Hmm. Would someone pay me to study the rate at which dust accumulates on my ceiling fan? You see, I could have said "collects," but "accumulates" has twice as many syllables. I am so the go-to guy for this study.
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POPSTSA says if you go to airport screening, you must submit to something, can't leave. If you want to fly but aren't comfortable with the new "security" procedures, you better prepare yourself or don't go to the airport. TSA now says that once you're there, you must either submit to the experimental scanning machines or the sexual assault feel-ups, or else be arrested and fined. So, if you're thinking "I'll go to the airport and if I end up in one of the 'enchanced' lines I'll just go home" ... think again. Tourism industry, anyone?
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POPSObama uses a teleprompter?! Remember when Barack Obama, supposedly Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces, pronounced corps as "corpse" and "corpsmen" as "corpse men"? Repeatedly? No so knowledgable about that military jargon, huh? Not the biggest flaw in the world, but if you command armed forces, would it hurt you to make sure you know how to pronounce their terms, at least on a speech-by-speech basis? Anyway. If Obama's teleprompter will help him pronounce anything in front of India's parliament, the teleprompter must have gotten an upgrade, because it seemed to lack that feature before. As for the official who "thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address," well, he is when he uses the teleprompter, significantly because of that teleprompter. Have you seen the man when he is forced to speak without one, such as during a press conference question-and-answer? (And make no mistake, he doesn't speak a planned remark without it.) He is about as eloquent as ... well, y
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POPS"I Voted Democrat Because ..." If enough of us participate in this exercise, maybe we can finally understand what goes on in peoples' minds. It doesn't seem like thinking, so it would be nice to know what it is.
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POPSNevada be warned: "None of the Above" will re-elect Harry Reid. Attention Nevada voters: You can vote for whoever you want, but you should know that in reality, we have two choices in this election for U.S. Senate: 1) Sharron Angle 2) Harry Reid To vote for Angle, mark “Sharron Angle” on your ballot. To vote for Reid, mark any of the other choices on your ballot; or don’t mark it at all. It doesn’t matter — any of these actions has the same net effect. Anything other than “Sharron Angle” is effectively a vote for Harry Reid. You might sleep better at night giving everyone “the finger,” but it won’t change how your vote affects the results of the election and the direction of our country. Even if “None of the Above” gets the most votes, we will still send either Reid or Angle to Washington D.C. We won’t get a new primary. We won’t have a special election. Whichever human gets the most votes wins, and it will be one of those two. If you’re like me, you’re not happy about that. But scowling won't change it. You have to deal with it.
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