Archive for 2013
July 16, 2013
TOO MUCH FISH OIL boosts prostate cancer risk? I’d like to see more research on this.
MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Zimmerman’s lawyers: He might seek “compensation” from the prosecution.
Related: Juror: ‘No doubt’ that Zimmerman feared for his life.
HARDENING THE SYSTEM: Ideas to Bolster Power Grid Run Up Against the System’s Many Owners. Note: Despite the cool pic of wind turbines, those don’t make the system harder.
July 15, 2013
THIS IS ONLY NEWS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION: Photo of Zimmerman’s great-grandfather raises questions about racial profiling.
THE WAGES OF AL SHARPTON’S — AND BARACK OBAMA’S — RACIAL HATEMONGERING: ‘This is for Trayvon!’ — Gang of Black Men Chase, Beat Hispanic Man in Baltimore.
AT A SECRET BLOGGER CONCLAVE, with Gateway Pundit blogstar Jim Hoft.
MEN SWEAT, WOMEN “GLOW:” Guys Get “Hammered” and Women Get “Tipsy.”
MONEY AND POLICY: How The Gates Foundation Shapes State Higher Education Policy.
CAN WE NAME IT “THE PHANTOM ZONE?” The Possible Parallel Universe Of “Dark Matter.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 9 Signs You Can Handle An Office Romance.
CRONY JOURNALISM? My USA Today column for tomorrow on the new DOJ guidelines.
TRANSPARENCY: MapBox Plans to Bring You Super-Fresh Satellite Imagery.
Basically, MapBox will be your GIS person. Herwig says the plan is to make ready-to-go processed imagery available for purchase on an image-by-image basis to people with MapBox accounts (signing up is free), the same way songs are available to people with iTunes accounts.
And these images will be fresh. How fresh? Their goal is to have images all over the globe available six hours after they’re acquired. Unless you’re the CIA or NSA or the military, six hours is practically real-time in the realm of Earth from space. The key is knowing how to process the images in a really quick way that can scale up — something the MapBox guys tell me they can do. If they are right, this will mean I will be able to easily get the most recent image of any spot on the globe, and so will you.
Wow.
UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!
ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS BRENT BOZELL on his new book, Collusion: How The Media Stole The 2012 Election — And How To Stop Them From Doing It Again In 2016.
WHY BRITAIN should join the Shale Revolution.
PEOPLE UNEASY ABOUT Professor-Student Relationships. As a faculty brat and long-time faculty member, my impression is that those usually don’t work out. But there are exceptions: My old law professor Charlie Black married one of his students, who herself went on to become dean of Columbia Law School. It was a long and close union, and a rule that would have blocked it would have been a bad thing. But maybe it’s just something about Columbia Law School. Or maybe it’s just the whole Johnny Depp thing in a different setting. . . .
AT AMAZON: Deal Of The Week: Up to 53% Off “The Dark Knight Trilogy.” On DVD and Blu-Ray.
HORROR: The End Of Asperger’s On TV.
POLICE ENDORSE RECORDING: Wearing A Badge, And A Video Camera.
William A. Farrar, the police chief in Rialto, Calif., has been investigating whether officers’ use of video cameras can bring measurable benefits to relations between the police and civilians. Officers in Rialto, which has a population of about 100,000, already carry Taser weapons equipped with small video cameras that activate when the weapon is armed, and the officers have long worn digital audio recorders.
But when Mr. Farrar told his uniformed patrol officers of his plans to introduce the new, wearable video cameras, “it wasn’t the easiest sell,” he said, especially to some older officers who initially were “questioning why ‘big brother’ should see everything they do.”
He said he reminded them that civilians could use their cellphones to record interactions, “so instead of relying on somebody else’s partial picture of what occurred, why not have your own?” he asked. “In this way, you have the real one.”
Related thoughts from Chief Weems.
READER BOOK PLUG: Stolen Spring, by Louisa Rawlings.
HOW TO TURN A MATCH into a tiny rocket.