gregladen | June 13, 2009No, it is a typo by the BBC. The BBC RSS feed on this story:
No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe
says, and I quote,
"Microsoft ships IE7 without browser"
Funny how the browser was integral and a drop dead feature when MS was being sued by Nestcape, and now it is something they can actually ship the OS without. Over and over again we see that the European courts are more sensible and in the anti-trust area powerful than the US courts.
European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.
Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will…
gregladen | June 12, 2009Someone asked me at dinner "What time did you get up" and as I was trying to remember what time I woke up this morning, and kinda wondering why she was asking me that, my wife answered for me: "Noon."
So I'm thinking "Why does Amanda think I woke up at noon. As a matter of fact, at noon, we were just arriving at the cabin up here .... oh ... " ...brain kicks in ... "we got up here a noon. Got it."
At noon. We got Up. To The Lake. ... It's a Minnesota thing.
Today I heard about a maple tree that fell in half .... the top half fell off ... because woodpeckers nested in it and overdid the…
gregladen | June 12, 2009The National Center for Science Education has a new web page, as part of their ever-improving and getting really quite wonderful web site, on Creationism and The Law. Here.
gregladen | June 12, 2009I just read this, and it made me want to see this:
and I'm asking you to look at this, but also this.
gregladen | June 12, 2009With the recent news about this book being made into a movie, I'm reposting my review of it.
The Time Traveler's Wife This is an easy decision, and not only because I read about five pieces of fiction this year and most of them were pulp. Well, OK, that is a factor. But this book is good enough for me to blog about it and you know I only blog about important things that you need to know about.
The book is The Time Traveler's Wife and it is by Audrey Niffenegger. Have you heard of it?
Apparently they are making this into a movie, which I suppose is a good thing. But it is the detail…
gregladen | June 12, 2009A spectacular edition of the birdy blog carnival, I and the Bird (# 102) is up at The Birder's Lounge. The carnival provides a map showing the approximate location of each bird discussed.
For the record, the following is a somewhat more accurate location for the birds in my post. The X is where the sighting sarted, and the circle is approximately where I saw the falcon last.
The Blog Carnival is Here.
gregladen | June 12, 2009Widespread panic and confusion has been predicted by major media outlets as all analog televisions in the United States stop working today.
gregladen | June 11, 2009The role of racial discrimination in mental health has been established in a number of studies, and a new study works out some of the details in how this works.
The study found blacks may, in general, have poorer mental health as a result of two mechanisms: First, chronic exposure to racial discrimination leads to more experiences of daily discrimination and, second, it also results in an accumulation of daily negative events across various domains of life, from family and friends to health and finances. The combination of these mechanisms, reports Anthony Ong, assistant professor of human…
gregladen | June 11, 2009The new Right Wing values: Kill your enemy and then eat them.
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gregladen | June 11, 2009Four Stone Hearth 68 :: 'Smokers Delight' edition @ remote central
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gregladen | June 11, 2009Or so says Ken Avidor, who responds here to my comments on Minneapolis former council member Dean Zimmerman.
gregladen | June 11, 2009... had some great moments. This was quite a speech. The Q&A was great as well, but I don't have that for you.
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gregladen | June 11, 2009One day, back before the blogosphere, I was sitting in the attic working at my computer with one eye on the lovely scenery outside the window. This was in South Minneapolis near the Whittier School, with tree-lined streets and interesting things always happening somewhere not far away. And as usual, I had my cell phone nearby, and I had memorized the number for nine-one-one....
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gregladen | June 11, 2009You will find the report below the fold. Please note that according to this document, you are not supposed to be reading it on the internet. I assume that is old and out of date information. But just in case, don't mention to anyone that you have seen this or where you saw it. K?
You asked, I answer. (Don't grow accustom to that, by the way.)
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gregladen | June 11, 2009... the spinning .. always the spinning ...
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gregladen | June 11, 2009The long-awaited pandemic announcement is scientific confirmation that a new flu virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe. WHO will now ask drugmakers to speed up production of a swine flu vaccine. The declaration will also prompt governments to devote more money toward efforts to contain the virus.
This means that the alert level is going to Level Six.
Ominously, WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan said: "The world is moving into the early days of its first influenza pandemic in the 21st century, ... The (swine flu) virus is now unstoppable."
We are warned that a second wave of the flu…
gregladen | June 11, 2009I've worked for political campaigns. There are people who are watching what happens on the rope lines, in the rally lines, at the rallies themselves. The kinds of things we saw during the last election were not uncontrolled random populous movements. They are semi-orchestrated, semi-managed events designed to turn political differences into seething hate (for political purposes). For instance, the things you see in this video do not happen without the knowledge of the candidate or senior staff, and there are efforts to control how people behave in these situations. What you see here is…
gregladen | June 11, 2009County Commissioners in Kleberg County, Texas flaunt their disregard for the law, the constitution, and for diversity.
From now on, courthouse employees and other government workers officially answer the telephone "Heaven-o" instead of "Hell-o." This insanity is the idea of local yahoo Leonso Canales Jr, who has been saying "God-o" or "Heaven-o" since he came up with this brilliant idea in 1988.
Not everyone is a convert to Kleberg County's heavenly ways. Madolyn Musick, who runs a bookstore, insisted, and linguists would agree, that "hello" has nothing to do with "hell." Besides, she…
gregladen | June 10, 2009Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak, who by the way is a very effective and popular mayor, has reached the official facebook limit of 5,000 friends. And the funny thing is, these really are his friends! In the sense that RT actually uses his facebook account to interact with people. One of our local meteorologists (Sven) has also reached his limit. Both are asking Facebook to raise the limit, which would be very much in line with something Facebook had considered doing at an earlier time.
As far as fighting Facebook's 5,000-friend limit, Rybak plans to continue his quest to get the company to…