aroberts writes "Today is Blog Action Day which means that lots of bloggers will be writing on one general topic for one day in an attempt to see what might be achieved through coordinated posting, and I am one of them so my humble contribution amongst the hundreds of thousands is entitled individual action is not enough. The topic for this year's blog action day is the environment."
You can almost hear the sound of the vacuum created by bloggers thinking that their words matter when the people with control don't even know how to read the tubes. Lick a stamp or march- that's harder to ignore
Oral Sex Implicated in Some Throat and Neck Cancers
Topic: Miscellaneous
2:40 pm EDT, Aug 27, 2007
"Smoking prevalence has dropped dramatically, and, likewise, most head and neck cancers have declined in incidence. Cancers at the base of the tongue and tonsil are increasing or have remained stagnant. We're not seeing the reduction in incidence that we would have expected," said study author Dr. Erich Sturgis, an associate professor of head and neck surgery and epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.
The study authors suspect the reason may be orally transmitted HPV infections.
"Just as cervical cancer is the outcome of a sexually transmitted disease, as are most anal and penile cancers, people need to be aware that they can get throat or tongue cancer as the consequence of a sexually transmitted disease," said Sturgis. "Oral sex can't be considered safe sex."
You know that dream where you are standing in front of a large group of people. You are giving a lecture. And you look down and you realize you aren't wearing pants. And then you look at the screen and you don't understand what you are supposed to be presenting on.
Yeah. That kind of sums up my Summercon experience.
Only I was wearing pants. I think. Yeah, I most likely had pants.
And I knew what I was supposed to talk about. How well I articulated is another matter.
But I don't fully remember giving the presentation. Something about source code mutation? Anyone? Bueller?
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I don't drink beer. Why does my laptop smell like beer?
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I vaguely recall something about screwing with spammers by throttling SMTP transactions, but it seems that talk was mixed with a detailed discussion of Scotch, and why Whisky doesn't have an "e"
When was it that you sold your life or wasted Every bite of that small slice you never tasted I guess I should be one to talk There's nights that I can't even walk There's days I couldn't give a fuck And in between is where I'm stuck
My parents are both science teachers: which means they always ruined the secrets to magic tricks, they forced me to identify every tree by leaf and bark type, and we always created our own versions of ‘science-y’ toys. We used to cook our Easy-Bake Oven meals with foil and a light bulb, and created our own slime with cornstarch and food coloring.
And, when we wanted our own shrinkable art, did we get the sweet pre-printed HeMan or Strawberry Shortcake sheets? Nope. We freehanded it on blank sheets of plastic, and copying the designs from coloring books. (Luckily, neither of my parents could draw, or else we might have had hand drawn versions of those, too.)
The process is simple. I don’t know what kind of Shrinky Dinks are available, if any, but I’ll always be able to make some on my own… I guess my parents actually taught me something. Nuts.
The website continues with steps on how to make your own personal shrinky dinks from recycled plastics.
Can I write a recursive depth JavaScript parser in 1.5 days? The answer is yes, but it doesn't support the complete language yet. So far I don't support:
-anonymous functions -the "with" statement -"for...in" blocks -labels and labeled continues (bet you didn't know JavaScript had labels!) -any of the bitwise operators ( & | ^ << >>) -assignment with operations ( += /= -= etc) -the ?: construct -array or object literals -declaring and initializing multiple variables with a single var statement.
To be fair, I've just been writing the JS parser. I am using a JS tokenizer I wrote a few months back (though I've been finding/fixing a number of bugs in it today).
