I love Google’s services. I have also appreciated their non-traditional management principles (which are becoming more traditional). But their entering a new realm where they will get crushed: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/att-says-google-voice-violates-net-neutrality-principles/?partner=rss&emc=rss
ATT has more lawyers than engineers. There’s no way Google wins this argument.
I’ve looked at stats that seemed to show this — just based on what I believed to be true about the religiosity of certain states. This study confirms what I had surmised.
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/religions-link-to-teen-pregnancy/
I’m not sure how you explain these findings, but I don’t think any of the potential answers look good for us “Christians.”
This article sheds a little light on the myopic view of the world most Americans have when it comes to healthcare. Do I think Congress will get this right? No! But I’m tired of all the hysteria and fear perpetrated by the right and the media. It’s ridiculous, and it shows how naive America is about our greatness.
As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called “death panels” to the supposed prowess of America’s homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad — sometimes at the United States’ closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.
Read the rest here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/18/the_most_outrageous_us_lies_about_global_healthcare?page=full
Davida recently posted this article about Croatia’s first woman prime minister. I felt the need to post this article about an even more interesting Croatian politician. I can’t figure out why they used his mug shot for the newspaper.
I love gmail, and for any personal word processing or spreadsheets, I use Google Docs. I use Google’s online calendar. I use picnik for photo editing now. Pandora for music. Mint for finances. I hardly do anything on my laptop OS anymore (at home) - which makes it easy for me to use Ubuntu instead of Windows (because it’s safer and faster). I’ve always held on to laptops for long after they would be useful running Windows and have run some lightweight version of Linux. I’ve always wanted an OS that was just functional enough to run a web browser (preferably Firefox over Chrome). That’s where I see the market for this - netbooks (which is a goofy market) and breathing new life into old hardware. Maybe the normal consumer will go for this, but businesses are locked into Windows — and that’s where Microsoft makes their money. Google OS might not be any good, but I’ll definitely try it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/05/football-fart
I’ve always thought that the yellow card was the dumbest idea in all of sport [sic]. But, maybe I should implement this at the dinner table with my 3 boys. ”Letting a fluffy” (Australian for farting) on the wooden slats of the kitchen chairs seems to be their favorite game right now.
Niksha, the old guy who used to come into our cafe in Croatia, carried a yellow card around with him wherever he went. If he didn’t like the service at the cafe, he would pull out the yellow card. Branka, our Croatian friend who was helping at the cafe, told him something he didn’t like one time when he pulled out the yellow card, so he reached into his jacket and produced a red card. The humanity!
Got this from former Renuelite Ben Ponder:
http://cleantech.com/news/4196/muslim-cleric-says-biofuels-are-sin
And then they kick me in the stomach.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3921500&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
I know I’m the only person I know (besides Lindsay) that cares, but my winter has been ruined by Steve Kerr’s dismantling of the Phoenix Suns. The Nash-led fastbreak Suns were the most exciting thing in basketball. And then new GM Steve Kerr traded “The Matrix” to Miami for Shaq, and then essentially ran off Mike D’Antoni, the most innovative coach in a generation. Earlier this season, Steve Nash sullenly stated, ”I feel like I’ve been traded. I feel like I’m on a different team because everything’s changed so much around here.” Kerr brought in coach Terry Porter to try to teach the Suns to play defense. One problem: The Suns’ roster is full of guys who can score and can’t play a lick of defense. Finally (maybe), Kerr has learned his lesson, fired Terry Porter, and handed the team to the only assistant left over from the D’Antoni era. Here’s the highlights from the first game after ditching the “defense wins championships” delusions.
