Collection of Dean outburst remixes...

Dean Goes Nuts

Balls Deep wrote:
] ] Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within
] ] our lifetime by global warming, new research suggests.

Here is the BBC version, which includes an interesting graphic about Greenland.

RE: Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age - BBC remix

] When the Gulf Stream abruptly turned off about 12,700
] years ago, it brought about a 1,300-year cold period,
] known as the Younger Dryas. This froze Britain in
] continuous permafrost, drove summer temperatures down to
] 10C and winter ones to -20C, and brought icebergs as far
] south as Portugal. Europe could not sustain anything like
] its present population. Droughts struck across the globe,
] including in Asia, Africa and the American west, as the
] disruption of the Gulf Stream affected currents
] worldwide.
]
]
] Some scientists say that this is the "worst-case
] scenario" and that the cooling may be less dramatic, with
] the world's climate "flickering" between colder and
] warmer states for several decades. But they add that, in
] practice, this would be almost as catastrophic for
] agriculture and civilisation.

If this story sounds like the radical ranting of a crypto-communist green faction, that seems to be mostly because you're desenitized. I tried to find a counterpoint to this, and couldn't, other then more questionable commentary from "techcentral." I'll post CNN's version (where Russian politicians are arguing that they would benefit from global warming because its cold in Russia) to the thread.

Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age

] Fed up with e-mail scams purportedly from Nigeria, the
] country's government will soon announce new plans to trap
] and prosecute cybercriminals.

Why jurisdictional arbitrage will not protect spammers...

IHT: Nigeria targets spam that taints its image

Jeremy wrote:
] Jaron Lanier: "I'm 41 now so I've decided I need to develop
] my grumpy side. So here's a rant about the sorry state of
] pop music."

I noticed that the link we all memed for this article is dead, so I am re-memeing an updated version. (Should that be meming? I am not qualified to invent new verbs. Is there a linguist in the house?)

RE: 'Where did the music go?' by Jaron Lanier

"2004 is not an ordinary election; it is a referendum on the Bush doctrine. The future of the world hangs in the balance. That is the other point that I want to make; it is not enough to defeat President Bush. We must also develop and adopt a more constructive vision."

You can read a transcript of the speech, or you can download an MP3 of the introduction, speech, and discussion.

George Soros, Bubble Book Boy

Suspecting that the problem might be with the flash memory, flight controllers radioed instructions for Spirit to start up in what Mr. Theisinger called the cripple mode, using only the RAM and not the flash memory. For the first time since Wednesday, the rover's software did not crash.

This is the first clear explanation I've read of the problems with Spirit.

Restoring a Red Rover's Spirit

] Can you believe President Bush is still pushing the
] cockamamie claim that we went to war in Iraq with a real
] coalition rather than a gaggle of poodles and lackeys?
]
] His State of the Union address took his swaggering
] sheriff routine to new heights.

This is a fun rant about the State of the Union Address. Sharply critical of everyone.

Riding the Crazy Train

The region stretching from Morocco to the border of India had almost no lights.

War of Ideas, Part 6

] A spam-free world by 2006? That's what Microsoft chairman
] Bill Gates is promising.
]
] "Two years from now, spam will be solved," he told a
] select group of World Economic Forum participants in
] Davis, Switzerland. Gates said his company is working on
] a "magic solution" based on the concept of "proof" -
] identifying the sender of the e-mail.

Microsoft plans to solve a problem