Launch your hedgehog into space in as few days as possible. Earn money by bouncing off platforms and hitting coins to buy upgrades. The higher and longer you go the more cash bonus you'll get! Use the arrow keys to fire your rockets to move left and right, and upgrade so you can get booster rockets to shoot even higher. I can get to space in 9 days, see if you can beat me.
Now It Can Be Told: 1942 | Shorpy :: History in HD
Topic: Arts
1:36 pm EDT, Jul 1, 2008
February 1942. Akron, Ohio. Another esoteric industrial process involving scary-looking thingamabobs essential to the war effort. Executive summary: Performing a painstakingly choreographed ballet of complicated tasks at precisely timed intervals, Joe Warworker here is doing his part to Speed Victory!
End of the Rainbow: Cars! | Shorpy :: History in HD
Topic: Arts
10:43 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2008
1955. A rainbow over the campus of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, seems to end on a row of classic 50s cars. The two-tone '53 Olds is nice, but I wish it wasn't obscuring the red-roofed Merc behind it. Shot by my brother, then a freshman there, on 35mm Kodachrome.
Some questions marketers must ask: Does this interaction lead to connections? Do our products support our story? Is the story pulling in numbers that demonstrate that it's working?
In that light, what are you working on? If it's not one of these five, not going to seriously change the dynamic of your marketing, why exactly are you bothering?nullnullnull
Report: Kicking the no-good president out of office
Topic: Current Events
3:55 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2008
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and "do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program," Hersh said.
"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said. null
Here's a little Perl script that checks to see if a Web site is up. If it is not, it tries to get it up.
Basically, I couldn't really find a good way to manage a handful of sites running on Ligttpd and FastCGI. I had a shell script that would kill all the FastCGI processes and then restart them, but sometimes there were misfires...sometimes the data center would reboot and I would not realize one had misfired...etc.
Lighttpd/FastCGI are cool but... there is no management utility included, so having 10 sites on one box is a nightmare. This script helps restart them all.
Idea Lab - The Worm Turns - Curing Diseases With Parasites? - Idea Lab - NYTimes.com
Topic: Health and Wellness
9:36 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2008
As Weinstock considered the I.B.D. puzzle, he wondered if immune manipulation by worms could incidentally protect against other diseases.
Comparison of the prevalence of I.B.D. and surveys of worm-infestation rates revealed a telling pattern. About 10 years after improved hygiene and deworming efforts reduced worms in a given population, I.B.D. rates jumped. Weinstock had his hypothesis: after a long coevolution, the human immune system came to depend on the worms for proper functioning. When cleaner conditions and new medicines evicted the worms from our bodies, the immune system went out of kilter. “Hygiene has made our lives better,” says Weinstock, now at Tufts University. “But in the process of eliminating exposure to the 10 or 20 things that can make us sick, we’re also eliminating exposure to things that make us well.” nullnull
Weinstock spotted a prime candidate on pig farms. Pig farmers are chronically exposed to Trichuris suis, the pig whipworm, and tolerate it with no apparent side effects. (This is not the potentially dangerous worm found in undercooked pork.)
In 2005, he published results from two human studies. After ingesting 2,500 microscopic T. suis eggs at 3-week intervals for 24 weeks, 23 of 29 Crohn’s patients responded positively. (Crohn’s disease belongs to the I.B.D. family, which also includes ulcerative colitis.) Twenty-one went into complete remission. In the second study, 13 of 30 ulcerative colitis patients improved compared with 4 in the 24-person placebo group.
