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POPSThe Road A major novel. I look forward to the film which is out soon. (By the way, the book is not about the future, it is about now).
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POPSDHL Closing devastates Ohio community Remember the election day bounce? That was in anticipation of a McCain presidency. Unhappily, folks in Ohio voted for the socialist. Now this is the result. Get used to it. Gonna get much worse. Who to blame? The idiots who voted for the empty suit marxist.
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POPSThe Legacy of the 20th Century "Expressed in its crudest form, the Leftist ideology attempts to justify looting of wealth and labor, and the complete regimentation of society. It advocates, first of all, that it is quite all right that those who have not take by force from those who have, and secondly, that nobody has an inviolable right to permanent ownership of anything. That premise serves to justify taxation as well as confiscation and that grand old euphemism - nationalization."
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POPSSmart amoebas reveal origins of primitive intelligence "Now they have identified a potential storage device. The amoeba's interior contains a watery sol – a solid suspended in liquid – within a thick viscous gel. The sol flows through the gel like water through a sponge, creating a network of low-viscosity channels. Those channels are strengthened as long as the amoeba continues to respond to a static environment, but if that environment changes the channels gradually break down and a new network appears as the amoeba adapts. For a short while, though, the amoeba retains a “memory” of those earlier conditions."
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POPSMore Scary Obama Footage The MSM Will Never Show You Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident? Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
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POPS To extended the present - the Future of Time.. 3500 through 1500 B.C. The earliest clocks Mechanism: The sun’s movement across the sky, water dripping from a vessel, candles burning down through marked increments Error: Extremely large and variable Accurate enough to: Schedule religious ceremonies 1200s through 1920s Mechanical clocks Mechanism: Balance wheels, weights, or pendulums Accurate enough to: Coordinate military activities and standardize trains
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POPSGoogle Reigns Supreme The media offers the momentum, while many web users watch the search engine war with anticipation, keeping faith that somehow, one of the new kids will prove Google-worthy. While at first sight these entities look promising, deeper scrutiny reveals their inferiority to Google.
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POPS This Bailout Was A Terrible Idea! Here's Why
This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle. Talk of Armageddon, however, is ridiculous scare-mongering. If financial institutions cannot make productive loans, a profit opportunity exists for someone else. This might not happen instantly, but it will happen. The costs of the bailout, moreover, are almost certainly being understated. The administration's claim is that many mortgage assets are merely illiquid, not truly worthless, implying taxpayers will recoup much of their $700 billion. The bailout has more problems. The final legislation will probably include numerous side conditions and special dealings that reward Washington lobbyists and their clients. Anticipation of the bailout will engender strategic behavior by Wall Street institutions as they shuffle their assets and position their balance sheets to maximize their take.
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POPSKenyan coffee farmers feeling credit crunch The global financial crisis and credit slow-down will have significant impacts on the coffee industry. See also this post by "God in a Cup" author Michaele Weissman: http://michaeleweissmanwrites.com/godinacupofcoffee/?p=93
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POPSBaltic Dry index is up dragging shipping lines along Nippon Yusen KK (japan's largest shipping line) and Mitsui OSK (japan's largest operator of dry bulk ships) gained as demand for bulker has increased. Demand has increased because of US harvest of crops. pressure on the downside though as the global economy is weakening
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POPSOne Week Later, a New World Order This restructuring of our financial markets is moving so fast, without any planned or studied direction, once the bill hit's the taxpayers for this one you can kiss goodbye any tax cut promises regardless who makes them, it just can't happen
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POPSThe Palin-Whatshisname Ticket "The same Republicans who attack Democrats for being too P.C. about race now howl about sexism with such abandon you half-expect Phyllis Schlafly and Carly Fiorina to stage a bra-burning. The same gang that once fueled Internet rumors and media feeding frenzies over the Clintons’ private lives now express pious outrage when the same fate befalls the Palins. But the ultimate hypocrisy is that these woebegone, frightened opponents of change, sworn enemies of race-based college-admission initiatives, are now demanding their own affirmative action program for white folks applying to the electoral college. They want the bar for admission to the White House to be placed so low that legitimate scrutiny and criticism of Palin’s qualifications, record and family values can all be placed off limits."
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POPSScientists Reveal Magicians Secrets A new study, detailed in the current online issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, reveals how elements of human cognition, such as awareness and perception, could be explained by the success of some techniques commonly used by magicians. "What people actually saw was not related to where they were looking," Kuhn told LiveScience. "Several participants who were looking at the object being dropped failed to see how it was done." Even though their eyes were focused on the objects, their attention was elsewhere, he said. More mental tricks For example, a vanishing ball illusion indicates that anticipation plays a factor in what we see, and our minds fill in the blanks. In this trick, the magician tosses a red ball into the air two times and on the third throw, instead of releasing the ball, the magician holds onto it. However, study participants reported seeing the magician toss the ball into the air three times before the ball "disappears."
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POPSShoot the messenger Continues Stranahan...."Seems like I've touched a third rail here. I cross-posted this piece at Daily Kos and it got over 400 comments. Unfortunately, a large number of the comments were nothing but insults. One person suggested seriously that all the videos I've made lampooning Republicans (including my Mike Huckabee video that Kos himself called the 'best political parody of 2007) were just a ruse so I could weasel my way into the progressive blogosphere, apparently in anticipation of John Edwards being caught at hotel. " Seems the urge to protect their own (Edwards) includes trashing the messenger (Stranahan). If only the truth could so easily be silenced....
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POPSThe Big Question: Do electronic books threaten the future of traditional publishing? A tipping point for e-books could come when content starts to be made available on the next-generation of mobile phones. the author Toby Young says: "The great thing about electronic books is that in the long run they will benefit writers, creating an easier way to enable first-time authors to get their work in front of the public. That will be a revolutionary change." Is this the end of the book as we know it? Yes...
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