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Hey Nick if your thinking about going let me know as there is a deadline for registration... and I think that this would be a great event.

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Hello, Stanford children. I know you’re probably not reading this right now because half of you are too busy getting drunk to even improve your literacy. And, hey, we know why most of you are here, right? Parents studied here, have millions of dollars in the bank, etc. So why are you gorging yourself on beer? It’s not even Stella Artois. It’s that cheap-as-piss, taste-like-piss beer.

Put it down. Put it down right this instant. Step away from the beer. Yes, you heard me. If alcohol is your poison of choice — as it is for millions (okay, this is America, where higher education is prohibitively expensive, so thousands) of college kids — you should at least try to enjoy it. And don’t even pretend to enjoy beer. Unless you’re into golden showers. There are better ways to get drunk, even if kegs of diluted urine are all they allow at parties. (Because, you know, Stanford kids are upright law-abiding citizens.) And chances are, since daddy went to GSB and mommy sends you LV bags for achieving that B+ in Math 51, you can afford a marginally more expensive option than bad-tasting beer.

Contrary to popular belief, a vodka shot does not a good drink make. No, that’s a recipe for liver cirrhosis in a cup. Shots are fun, if you’re a high school kid. But now you’re older than that. Or at least you will be. Grow up and start trying out mixed drinks. Because cocktails are here to stay. You’re not going to walk into an office dinner and tell the waiter, “A keg of beer please. And six vodka shots.”null

I love it back down here... I cant find good beer... If you as for a "Stella Artois" you get, "who's she? with a redneck twang... ahh the high-low life of being out in BFE...

Champagne campaign...

....You might choose others, but here's my list:

1.

A 30% national sales tax is a workable substitute for all income and payroll taxes in the United States.

2.

Global warming is not primarily caused by human activity. In fact, global warming might not even exist.

3.

Intelligent design is a viable scientific theory that ought to be taught in biology classes.

4.

Even with marginal tax rates at current levels, reducing taxes will increase revenues.

5.

Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.

I would like to compile a similar list for liberals/Democrats. Items should be (a) reasonably consequential; (b) held by a nontrivial cross-section of actual politicians, think-tankers, and pundits, not just by a small lunatic fringe; and (c) not mere differences of opinion ("abortion is murder," "preventive war is bad"), but things that are demonstrably false. Leave your nominations in comments.

FIVE CONSERVATIVE MYTHS

A few months ago, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins received an e-mail message from a producer at Rampant Films inviting him to be interviewed for a documentary called “Crossroads.”

The film, with Ben Stein, the actor, economist and freelance columnist, as its host, is described on Rampant’s Web site as an examination of the intersection of science and religion. Dr. Dawkins was an obvious choice. An eminent scientist who teaches at Oxford University in England, he is also an outspoken atheist who has repeatedly likened religious faith to a mental defect.

But now, Dr. Dawkins and other scientists who agreed to be interviewed say they are surprised — and in some cases, angered — to find themselves not in “Crossroads” but in a film with a new name and one that makes the case for intelligent design, an ideological cousin of creationism. The film, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” also has a different producer, Premise Media.

The film is described in its online trailer as “a startling revelation that freedom of thought and freedom of inquiry have been expelled from publicly-funded high schools, universities and research institutions.” According to its Web site, the film asserts that people in academia who see evidence of a supernatural intelligence in biological processes have unfairly lost their jobs, been denied tenure or suffered other penalties as part of a scientific conspiracy to keep God out of the nation’s laboratories and classrooms.

Mr. Stein appears in the film’s trailer, backed by the rock anthem “Bad to the Bone,” declaring that he wants to unmask “people out there who want to keep science in a little box where it can’t possibly touch God.”

If he had known the film’s premise, Dr. Dawkins said in an e-mail message, he would never have appeared in it. “At no time was I given the slightest clue that these people were a creationist front,” he said.

Eugenie C. Scott, a physical anthropologist who heads the National Center for Science Education, said she agreed to be filmed after receiving what she described as a deceptive invitation.

“I have certainly been taped by people and appeared in productions where people’s views are different than mine, and that’s fine,” Dr. Scott said, adding that she would have appeared in the film anyway. “I just expect people to be honest with me, and they weren’t.”

More FUD..

Scientists Feel Miscast in Film on Life’s Origin

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Lightning Over Nashville

They do not like to be called “radio cops.” They insist on “frequency coordinators.” But on rare occasions at National Football League games, the NFL’s Game Day Frequency Coordinators have to get a bit insistent.

And 45 of them will be suiting up for Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz., to organize the use of some 10,000 wireless devices. (Read a related story on the stadium’s state-of-the-art wireless system.)
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The NFL launched its frequency coordination effort in 1996 at Super Bowl XXX in Phoenix. The initial goal was simple: organize the use of limited radio frequencies at the Super Bowl. Three years later, the program expanded to all NFL games, so that the ever-growing crowd of wireless users, from quarterbacks to cleaners, can use an ever-growing number of wireless devices without interfering with each other.

Sometimes things get testy.

Wireless users, such as TV crews, are required to coordinate with the NFL before the game, to get a frequency assignment. At the NFC Championship game Jan. 20, between the Green Bay Packers and the winning New York Giants, the GDCs monitoring the frequencies found an uncoordinated TV news crew, called a “CoordNot.” To link a wireless microphone to the camera, the crew was using a channel assigned to another wireless user. This crew was a “repeat offender,” says Jay Gerber, manager and founder of the NFL Frequency Organization Group. He wouldn’t identify their employer.

Click to see: Photo of University of Phoenix stadium
Photo of University of Phoenix stadium

Using the NFL’s standard-issue, radio direction-finding gear, the GDCs onsite at Lambeau Field tracked down the TV crew, a camera operator and sound man, and spoke to them. In the vast majority of cases, such unauthorized users are apologetic and work with the coordinators to find and use an open frequency.

Not this time.

Because this was a repeat offense, the crew was not given the customary option of continuing to work by using a cable connection for the microphone. First-time offenders have their wireless gear confiscated and returned at the end of the game, and can keep working using a wired connection. After consulting with League officials and NFL security at the stadium, the GDC told the TV crew to pack up. They turned in their credentials and left the stadium.

Read on... if anyone has done RDF work it is fun stuff to track people... :)

NFL's 'radio cops' organize wireless use for Super Bowl XLII

In 1982, Home Box Office (HBO) had a problem on their hands. HBO used satellites to distribute their programming to cable companies across the US. Cable companies would pick up HBO with a large dish, then scramble the signal and distribute it to paying cable subscribers. The subscribers, who paid $8/month (in 1982 dollars) for the privilege of receiving HBO, received a set top descrambler box for HBO. The problem was the two to three million people with backyard satellite dishes who received HBO without paying. A bigger problem yet was that hotels and other establishments in Caribbean and Latin American countries that received HBO at no cost, and then freely redistributed it. The paying customers became resentful of all the freeloaders. HBO was plagued by complaints, and knew they must take action. They decided to scramble their original signal at their head end. HBO released a Request for Proposal for a scrambling system.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: HBO IMPLEMENTS SCRAMBLING

eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neightboor's house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time.

Cool...

eyeOS | Web Desktop - Web OS - Web Office - your files and applications everywhere

uBrowser is an open source test mule that renders interactive web pages onto geometry using OpenGL® and an embedded instance of Gecko, the Mozilla® rendering engine. Its primary purpose is to help me integrate Gecko into my company's software - a 3D virtual world called Second Life.

The first version, released in February 2006 was implemented as a single application and was only able to render a single Web page at a time. The current version can be thought of as a unit test for a newly developed library called LLMozLib that makes it easier to embed Gecko into applications. As well a providing this standalone library that can trivially be included in other applications, the notable improvements are support for rendering multiple simultaneous pages and support for page updates as and when required rather than via the old timer based model. There is still a lot of work left to do and by releasing the source, I'm hoping that others will benefit from what I've learnt and perhaps even help fix some bugs. You are able to interact with the page (mostly) normally and visit (almost) any site that works correctly with Firefox® 2.0.

Check it out... :P

LLMozLib & uBrowser

Super Bowl Sunday is here and I really couldn't care less who wins the game. At the beginning of the season I'm always hopeful that I'll be re-posting the Super Bowl Shuffle but it wasn't even close this year. Below are a few more songs from the 1990's. As always, enjoy.

MP3 | [listen] Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
MP3 | [listen] Everything But The Girl - Missing
MP3 | [listen] Los Del Rio - Macarena
MP3 | [listen] Haddaway - What Is Love
MP3 | [listen] Aerosmith - Cryin'

Fab...!!!!

It came from the nineties (Vol. 2)