"In this instructable I make a common WiFi Thumbdrive into a beefy wifi extender!'

The parabolic Asian cooking(dumpling) strainer is the perfect candidate for this project.

I was able to pick up 20 more access points in the city and connect to a network a few blocks away!

This is BY-FAR the most simple of all Wifi extensions!"

WokFi - Wire Kitchen Strainer Turns into Super Parabolic Network Extender

"Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have disrupted funerals across the country over the past few years with profane signs saying that deaths in Iraq are retribution triggered by America's tolerance of homosexuals.

A church news release explains: "God is punishing America for her sodomite sins... The 33 massacred at Virginia Tech died for America's sins against WBC (Westboro Baptist Church). Just as U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq each day for America's sins against WBC."

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ (Another political & religious agenda to be fought at this particular time?)

Westboro Baptist Church to protest at Virginia Tech

"I don't recall....
I don't recall....
I don't recall..."

Does he have alzheimers? lol

Gonzales Rejects Call for His Ouster | The Huffington Post

Are people catching that what they are showing us is heavily edited? They say he is blaming Jesus Christ? Yet it seems to me his is delusional somewhat that he IS Jesus Christ.

Oh Jesus Christ. They say LAW ENFORCEMENT doesn't want us to see them - apologized for us HAVING to see them.

Ok, maybe don't plaster them all over the tv, but make them available. We know they are there in the media's hands. Why hide them? Why only show us what you want us to see? What someone thinks is SAFE for us?

Doesn't make sense. So much doesn't make sense.

I can't for the life of me figure out why he didn't upload at least some of his material to Youtube.

Gunman in massacre contacted NBC News

Very easy to use link - search for your pet food, and make sure your animals are safe.

They've expanded the list. There's a second poisonous chemical found. From other articles I've read, China is not being as cooperative as they could be.

Funny, isn't it, coming from a country that clubbed so many dogs not long ago for no real good reason....and the country that sold us dog fur for fake fur.

Maybe our pet food ingredients shouldn't come from there, huh?

Pet food recall expanded - Link to check your furbaby's food

Pro-choice activists, if there are any left, ought be concerned about the wording on this decision.

"The government has "an interest in promoting respect for human life at all stages in the pregnancy," [That is clearly saying that they consider a fetus human life, isn't it?] said Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the court. "The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice."

"Kennedy said the ban on partial-birth abortions may "encourage some women to carry the infant to full term, thus reducing the absolute number of late-term abortions."" [There's the true agenda, isn't it? On the bench?

I've known one woman to have one of these. She was very anti-choice. The baby that she so wanted was found at just under 7 months to have severe hydrocephalus and spinal bifida. She was told there was no question the child would be profoundly mentally retarded and would need life long institutional care. After a few weeks of prayer, her and her husband decided to have the procedure.

Late Term Abortion Ban Upheld by Supreme Court

One of my trades is that of mental health professional. Former, but I still have my license, and my interest, and I've seen a LOT.

So I can't help but venture into armchair psychoanalysis. Forgive me. I've sat here for a long time bored, going though the plays that Cho wrote, and I've listened to some interviews with his classmates and roommates, and reading news articles to catch up on all that...

What I keep seeing is "Oh, he wrote disturbing stuff. People getting killed. Weapons. Threats under what he wrote. Twisted violent stuff..."

And I have to groan. There's thousands of screenwriters, playwrights, novelists, ect., who produce some very graphic and violent work. 300. The Grudge. Saw. Saw II. Stephen King. Anne Rice. Mel Gibson. Castlevania. Doom. Ad infinitum.

And there's some artists out there that paint pictures of people
dead, dying, and bleeding. Like me.

Don't you think that if everyone that produced graphic, violent art was crazy and in danger of being a 'shooter' that we'd not have NOTICED it by now?

No, the media has this one wrong.

While it is true that I've seen alot of really disturbing letters, plays, poems, ect....it is rarely the violence that is expressed that is the problem.

It is the disorganization. I can't think of a single mental patient that would have ever got an A on a paper we put in a chart - put it that way. One very common thing you see is writing all over the page, into the margins, between lines, just totally disjointed mess. Sometimes writing over other writing. It is a sign of a disorganized mind. Sometimes you will see very real, detailed fantasies. Usually against someone in the person's past, or someone that they know in reality.

But these people are dysfunctional. They are hospitalized, or incarcerated.

This shooter was not dysfunctional with his living skills. He was clean they say, neat. He was living in a dorm and going to college, and he knew how to buy a gun. No, two. He could type, and use the computer just fine. He could navigate online. He was pretty organized mentally. Where his organization broke down, in his writing, was where the focus of his violence was.

If you read the plays, look for his lack of focus with his anger. All the characters seem mad - not just one. There's no focus, so it all just gets caught and bounces around everywhere. There's no place for it to get out.

But again, this is all looking at it hindsight. Surely thousands of people write violent material everyday.

Art is a FORM of sublimation - it is a HEALTHY release for feelings of all kinds that you can't really deal with otherwise. Studies show that already boys in particular are feeling frustrated in their imaginations and creativity in school - art teachers constantly grapple with what images to allow.

But in full disclosure, one of my final projects was a guy tied to a tree disemboweled with ghost faces in... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

His writing dripped with anger....GROAN

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling’s hands, global trends — life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates — become clear, intuitive and even playful.

Fascinating talk...

TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen (video)

It is SO frustrating - my mother, sister and I all have CFS and Fibro. (The symptoms overlap a lot.) It took me a lot of pain and expense to finally get a diagnosis - and thus treatment - Let me tell you, a lot of doctors need to suddenly have a very bad problem that totally ruins their life that NO one believes in, lol.
Yet, when the studies are done, time and time again they are finding central nervous system changes and genetic links.

Besides a LOT of pain, and a lot of days I can barely stay awake for more than a few hours, the thing that has really been awful for me is the incredible brain fog.

Yet they give this really debilitating disease a totally silly name - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - and suddenly everyone that you know claims to have it. That's one of the reasons that they are considering changing the name officially to myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Perhaps then, and with more studies, the disease could finally be recognized by all these old docs and half baked GPs running around.

-----------------------------------------

"UNDER the microscope, it could not have been clearer. Sophia Mirza's brain and spinal fluid showed indisputable evidence of inflammation and cell death.

The discovery, by the neurologist Abhijit Chaudhuri and a neuropathologist colleague, marked the first time a serious abnormality confined to the central nervous system had been identified at the post-mortem examination of a patient whose principal diagnosis was chronic fatigue syndrome."

Victims Give Clues to the Answers

A judge violated a juvenile's free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

"While we have little regard for A.B.'s use of vulgar epithets, we conclude that her overall message constitutes political speech," Judge Patricia Riley wrote in the 10-page opinion.

In February 2006, Greencastle Middle School Principal Shawn Gobert discovered a Web page on MySpace purportedly created by him. A.B., who did not create the page, made derogatory postings on it concerning the school's policy on body piercings.

The state filed a delinquency petition in March alleging that A.B.'s acts would have been harassment, identity deception and identity theft if committed by an adult. The juvenile court dropped most of the charges but in June found A.B. to be a delinquent child and placed her on nine months of probation. The judge ruled the comments were obscene.

Indiana Court: MySpace postings are free speech - Yahoo! News