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POPSCountdown to 2012: Genesis Long Count In 551 BCE, the vernal point was transiting the head-stars of the Ram. In the time of Alexander the Great, two centuries later, it still in this region, and had been remarked by skywatchers for some time.
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POPS40 Facts About Sleep You Didn't Know Visit page to see all 40. Fact "- Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock."
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POPS"Psychological motives of belligerent, chest-beating warmongers" Digby , clipped from Glenn Greenwald's blog, with some insightful points, I think. Neoconservative author Francis Fukuyama felt that with the fall of our last great opponent at the end of the Cold War (see Pax Americana ), American men were doomed to fail to live up to the Western-Frontier-era ideal of masculinity. In other words, peace is for wussies. This idea worried him so much that he wrote an entire book on the subject — The End of History and the Last Man — which was held by an important few warmongers in Washington to be the perfect moral prescription to find new enemies with which to wage continuous war.
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POPSVerosee launches collaborative workspaces for Skype Announced by several Skype bloggers in 2005 as a break-through collaborative tool, Verosee for Skype was just publicly launched this week. It's a Java applet that allows you to set up a workspace with your team members. You can see what they are working on, whether they are available for contact, at which location and at which phone number. You can synchronize folders through a secure connection. Verosee can send out specific event alerts, for example to notify you when a team member opens a specific file or enters a specific workspace. At the moment Verosee is available for Windows and Linux. A Mac version is coming up. Verosee Premium offers file versioning, wireless collaboration, desktop sharing and remote access.
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POPSBush's speech It was amazing to me that Bush made light of the terror threat to N.Y.Great reporting in the N.Y,Times.