] 1001. City's collective IQ drops eight points,
] temporarily tying us with Seattle.
]
] 1000. Delegates from Kansas spotting Dave Chappelle on
] the streets 50 times a day.
]
] 999. Rudy Giuliani caught backstage in Nosferatu pose,
] muttering, "Soon all this will be mine!"
]
] 998. Protest war stories from people who spent previous
] 364 days watching MTV.
]
] 997. Mary Cheney forced to stop eating pussy for most of
] Wednesday primetime slot.
]
] 996. Osama bin Laden's name will not be mentioned by
] a single speaker during the convention.
]
] 995. Our weekly Al Qaeda training seminar and pot luck
] social was cancelled.

:-)

1001 things to hate about the rnc

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Researchers from Canada believe they have identified the gene responsible for breast cancer tumor growth, a discovery that could possibly lead to a cure for the disease.

When the gene was removed from the mice, breast development was not affected, however, when the gene was removed from already growing tumors, the tumors ceased to grow.

Breast Cancer Cure?

] In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told
] U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen it supports the Detroit
] defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer
] pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at
] most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.

Nah, the U.S. Government never makes mistakes when it prosecutes people. Anyone who is accused of being a terrorist must be a terrorist. Thats why its ok to throw them in GITMO without trial.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions

] Panayiotis Zavos, of the Kentucky Center for Reproductive
] Medicine, Lexington, US, say his team has shown that
] cells taken from humans after death could be used for
] cloning. This latest work is purely experimental and no
] embryos were implanted for cloning, said Zavos,
] announcing the results at his own press conference in
] London, UK.
]
] However, the claims were immediately met with both
] revulsion and scepticism from the UK scientific
] community.
]
] "The work is both scientifically questionable and
] ethically unacceptable," says Richard Gardner of the
] UK Royal Society's working group on stem cell research
] and cloning. "It is grossly misleading to suggest
] that you can replicate a loved one by producing a cloned
] person with the same genetic material."

Article: Cloning from the dead claim attacked | New Scientist

] I have never been and I will never be a Government
] official and I have no privileged information. My
] perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I
] read and on the fact that my family has lived in this
] region for almost 200 years. You may regard my views as
] those of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are
] supposed to question, when you visit a country.

Harari is a well known physicist. His view is conservative. He makes strong arguments.

A Isreali view of the middle east conflict

] There's a story of the orphaned lion who was raised by
] rangers in a South African game preserve, and who took as
] his role model their Australian cattle dog. And was very,
] very interested in wild antelope and learned to herd
] them.
]
] His interest in wild antelope was hard-wired. He had lots
] of innate behaviors, like sneaking, crouching and
] pouncing. But he had no idea at whom to direct that, so
] he pounced on his friends when he was playing with them
] -- the dog and the people. He was very interested in
] impalas, but the dog, his role model, herded them, so he
] herded them, too. Not a good way for a lion to make a
] living.

dmv says:

Excellent interview. The basic issue is that more survival behaviors that we would expect are taught rather than innate, and that the role of mimicry and education is critical for preserving wild animals as anything other than physical representations. The notion that reintroducing a naturally exitinct species may genetically be possible but without preserving their "culture" we still lose, was particularly interesting. I'll have to check out this book.

Salon.com Books | When animals go to school

This is the adult version of a test we give children in school to figure out how they learn best thus telling us how to be more effective teachers. So if you are interested take the test and see what it has to say about your learning style. This is all based on Gardner and his theory of multiple intellegences. (he recently added 1 that deals with technology)

--

This is a fun test. I'm not sure the questions are the best, and I kind of think that a graduated answer scale would be better then binary responses. I'm kind of surprised that I didn't score higher on spacial. Anyway, my results were, well, inconclusive, which is typical for me and personality tests.

The Seven Intelligence Areas:
Linguistic: 9
Logical-Mathematical: 9
Spatial: 7
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 6
Musical: 8
Interpersonal: 7
Intrapersonal: 9

Multiple Intelligence Test

] Though the "swift boat" controversy is a convenient foil,
] and can't have helped Kerry, the shift looks to represent
] broader assessments. The Massachusetts senator has lost
] ground on unrelated items ranging from "a vision for the
] future" to trust to handle health care and education.

This is a detailed collection of data about where the public stands right now. The above discussion is a little bit disingenuous. Much like Dean's "YARRR," its clear that "swing voters" are extremely vulnerable to meaningless attack politics, especially when they are carried in the mainstream press, and their perceptions of a candidate on one issue impact their perceptions on totally unrelated issues.

Kerry's attempt to handle the swift boat veterans clearly failed. The press may also have chosen their candidate and may be spinning things in his favor. Monday's USA Today headlined a picture of Cheney getting off of a plane, and trumpeted Bush's strengths. Protestors where mentioned, but their message was heavily spun down. One would think 100,000 people in the streets of New York would be a more newsworth photo then Cheney's daily deplaning.

Our election is a popularity contest; a football game. If the press is really smart they'll steer things back to Kerry next month, and then back to Bush again in October... Keeping you on the edge of your seats until the big event. Gotta sell copy...

ABCNEWS.com : Poll: As Convention Opens, Bush Has Edge

] Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on
] Caller ID to screen out those annoying bill collectors
] much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to
] bring the hacker technique of Caller ID spoofing to the
] business world, beginning with collection agencies and
] private investigators.
]
] Slated for launch this week, Star38.com would offer
] subscribers a simple Web interface to a Caller ID
] spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from
] any number they choose. "It creates an extra avenue for
] them to have someone pick up the phone," says founder
] Jason Jepson.

US website offers Caller ID falsification service | The Register