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POPSThanks MSM or Olbermann does us a solid By the end of the week, after Palin's tour de force in St. Paul, the liberal media were so befuddled that they were reduced to complaining that conservatives aren't being narrow-minded enough. Thus, Hanna Rosin--who has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post, and has also written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the New York Times--lamented in a piece for Slate: "So cavalier are conservatives about Sarah Palin's wreck of a home life that they make the rest of us look stuffy and slow-witted by comparison." I suppose it was ungenerous of conservatives, in our broad-mindedness and tolerance of human frailty, to have let Ms. Rosin down, just when she was counting on us to bring out the tar and feathers. But she gives us too much credit when she suggests we make the liberal media look stuffy and slow-witted. They do that all by themselves.
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POPSWhen Hairballs Become Hazardous One of my cats is having a terrible time expelling hairballs and may be in trouble. I'm going to follow this advice with respect to adding some oil and fiber and see if this helps the old girl.
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POPSTranslation of Russian American License Plates "Sometimes they use only Latin alphabet letters, sometimes use tricks to use Latin letters or even numbers for a Cyrillic letter substitute, thus looking ambiguous for simple Americans but very obvious for any Russian meeting such a plate on the road causing him to understand that this is his fellow immigrant guy is driving ahead. We gonna decipher some of those secret messages American Russians are putting on their plates down there."
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POPSWhat AntiVirus products do what? A really great article that should be required reading for every user online. Like a yearly requirement. ya know, to keep these facts fresh in your spongelike, thirsting for knowledge mind.
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POPSJohn McCain Attempts Spin to VFW Audience You can decide for yourself which version is the "better bill". For what its worth, VFW endorsed the Webb-Hagel version and is even awarding Senator Webb a a gold medal and citation of merit for his work on Veterans' education benefits.
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POPSUsability testing story from an indie game
This article follows the story of one creator's user feedback and subsequent usability test. I think it highlights the problems found in AAA game development with focus tests where the write-up is taken as gospel, but the devs don't do the deep-listening part of sitting with the players guaging what the root of their problems are. I can't summarise a whole story in clipmarks' 1000 character limit. I'll write some more context here, so if the source page goes offline in the future there'll be enough material. Before the clipped quote starts, the author explains that he got user feedback via phone and e-mail, the strongest message to come through which was requests for an "undo" function. Instead of staying crestfallen at this request, he sets up a live test party. The changes made to the game which aren't clipped: Slow the main character down ... even slower when pushing obstacles Take out death-water Add waypoints that allow the player to restart without needing to repla
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POPSNo Tax Increase Needed for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid... If Congress were to act responsibly (yes, an oxymoron), it would hold down the growth of spending, as was done in the late 1980s and late 1990s, and eliminate those government programs that do not meet a reasonable cost-benefit test. As has been shown before, such actions would quickly eliminate the deficit.
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POPSHumans' response to risk can be unnecessarily dangerous, study The results of Lotem's research may also be used by economists, politicians and psychologists, who need to know when people will take risks, says Prof. Lotem. A wider understanding of this phenomenon can affect business decisions, the economy ― and, hopefully, the number of road accidents in America each year.
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POPSSurviving disasters - be prepared to help yourself & your neighbors I live in California, where we have a 99% chance of having an earthquake measuring 6.7 or higher some time in the next 30 years. The chance of a quake 7.5 or greater in the next 30 years is 46%. As we saw after the Loma Prieta quake, the government and emergency responders will not be able to help everybody, and each of us will need to help ourselves and the people around us.
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POPSWhat's Going Up? Unemployment! It's a staple of supply side economic propaganda that the lagging indicators of slashing taxes (mostly for the rich) are wage increases and job growth. Well, the Bush-GOP tax cuts didn't result in wage increases in real terms for at least 2/3 of the nation and now unemployment is on the rise. Why is it with all that excess capital allegedly churning in the economy that we find ourselves in the throes of a recession? Could it be that the rich are not as inclined to consume and invest nearly as much the supply-side propaganda purports? Could the obvious truth that most consumers are MOST people give us clue that the best way to "float all the boats" is from the bottom up and not the top down?
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POPSHurricane Dolly Bears Down on Texas Dolly is described as a "slow-moving" storm, meaning that there may be more damage than would normally be expected from a Category 2, mostly in the form of flooding. LiveScience.com : Flooding, which can result from both torrential rains and the ocean surf a storm can push ashore, is what officials in Texas were most concerned about after Dolly made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane at 9 am EDT on Wednesday. Residents of the Rio Grande Valley have been warned of potential severe flooding and possible levee breaks. The National Hurricane Center predicted that Dolly could drop a total of 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 centimeters) of rainfall in the next few days, with some isolated spots potentially getting soaked by up to 15 inches.
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