Odds & ends

LHC update NYT.
Gauging a Collider’s Odds of Creating a Black Hole
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/science/15cern.html?refer=science

I think if it takes out the Bush regime it might be worthwhile!




PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO F******* PARK ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION
DRIVERS who can position their car in the middle of a parking space at a supermarket are sliding closer to extinction, conservationists have warned.
Yet another symptom of climate change? Or is he just an unspeakable bastard who deserves to die?Research teams have recorded a sharp decline in numbers over the last decade, despite strenuous efforts to educate the public about how easy it is to just put your car in the middle of a parking space.

Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target
Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.

What no 3 shots to the head type suicide? Only in America!


BUSINESS WEEK: THERE IS NO GAS SHORTAGE
But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace
It's all a SCAM SCAM SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
There I feel better now.


Mental Detox Week - April 21 to April 27 (formerly TV Turnoff)

I like the sounds of this... silence.


Microwave Ovens: The Curse of Convenience
The following is a summary of the Russian investigations published by the Atlantis Rising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon. Carcinogens were formed in virtually all foods tested. No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to ensure sanitary ingestion.
Here's a summary of some of the results:
* Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to ensure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodiethanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
* Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
* Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
* Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
* Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.


The Fallacy of "Climate Change"
"Climate Change" seems to be the new buzzword these days among environmentalists and politicians who were formerly the proponents of "Global-Warming". Unfortunately, the term "climate change" is a meaningless phrase. The climate is always changing, about as often as the weather in fact. Some years are warm, while others are cool. Some years are dry, while others are wet. There are El Niños, and there are La Niñas. There have been ice ages and warm periods throughout Earth's history. And the term "Global Climate Change" is not much better. That simply tells us that the climate is changing everywhere in the world. Yeah, and so...?


TransLink Cops Will Continue To Taser Fare Dodgers
The new uniforms will be brownshirts and lots of belts. Seriously though they just raised property taxes in the Greater Vancouver area 3-5 % to pay for shit like this. If they used a taser on a suspected terrorist it is called torture. Don't pay $2.50 and you get 50,000 volts. This is cruel and unusual punishment only for being suspected of not paying or not letting go of a handrail. What have we become?

SHOCKING EVIDENCE.
Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Posted Apr 19, 2008 10:11 PM PSTCategory: SCIENCE/HEALTH
Oh, did I mention this came from a Washington Post article on changes in the arctic as found in the Monthly Weather Review for November 1922?