Saturday - April 16, 2005

Precocious Little Snots

This made me laugh.

In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference.

Jeremy Stribling said Thursday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with “context-free grammar,” charts and diagrams.

These guys had enough of the high-falutin’ professors and academics showing their stuff at conferences and such, so they created a computer program to crank out a technical-looking, nonsensical paper....and sent it in to be presented at a conference.

To their surprise, one of the papers—“Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy”—was accepted for presentation.

Rooter.  Too much.  But it gets better.

Stribling said conference organizers had not yet formally rescinded their invitation to present the paper.

The students were soliciting cash donations so they could attend the conference and give what Stribling billed as a “completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely with a straight face.”

So far, they’ve raised $2,300, which exceeded thier goal.  If the conference does not recind their offer, these boys are going to be in high-cotton.

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   Tuesday - April 12, 2005

Death By Flakes?

Better get some Denorex ....

According to this article, dandruff is going to be the end of us all.  Why, you ask?  Because ....

A new study suggests that particles of skin, pollen, fur fibers, and other cell fragments may account for up to 25% of the particles in the atmosphere.

Particles suspended in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, play an important role in climate change. But researchers say they need a better understanding of what those aerosols are made of so they can build more accurate climate change models.

Yup, better to out and build better climate change models.  Since now the Global Warming crowd is being silenced by fact, there must be some other reason that the earth will die if we don’t stop.

However, the findings suggest that the overall prevalence of bioaerosols doesn’t appear to vary seasonally despite the expectation that concentrations would be higher in the summer than in winter. Researchers say that lack of variation may be due to redistribution of particles during dry winter months.

Hmmmm. We suggest that this is happening, but the fact just don’t support it yet.  Maybe we should get some grant money.

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   Thursday - April 07, 2005

International Snippets And Bits

International Snippets And Bits

The dead just keep on turning up---in Berlin---from 60 years ago.

German and Russian soldiers who died in a battle during WW II were found outside Seelow, Germany.

They expect to find thousands more.

Imagine that!  The French are good for something! If only the rest of the country were worth a crap!

In more French news, Amnesty International has its knickers in a twist because they think:

The French government ministers, judges and senior police officers are allowing members of the police force to use excessive and sometimes lethal force against suspects of Arab and African origin without fear of serious repercussions

Like.........we care? 

I know, two article that display the French is somewhat of a positive light---in one day.  Gotta be a first for BMEWS.

The article goes on to say:

The number of fatal shootings by police officers or gendarmes, in disputed circumstances, has declined in recent years, but complaints of ill-treatment have increased. Complaints about police conduct increased by 18.5 per cent in 2004.

Come on!  Really!  Give me a major league break here!  Considering how people whine about the littlest thing nowadays and considering these sheetheads are getting wise to the western judicial system that penalizes the white majority no matter if it is guilty or not, should we be surprised that complaints go up?  The ragheads KNOW they’ll get attention f they complain.

Amnesty International needs to go the way of the dodo bird.  Soon.

The Spanish are no slouches, too, when it comes to phenomenal stuff.

If only they weren’t a bunch of yellow bellies when it comes to terrorism.

Speaking of the Spanish, remember that bombing in Madrid by terrorists?

You know the Spanish judicial system solution for the detainees?  Turn them loose and ask them to come back once a week.

Yeah!  Right!  Sure they will.

But don’t hold your breath, judge.

Hat Tip: Phil

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/07/2005 at 04:23 AM   
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   Wednesday - April 06, 2005

My Brain Hurts

I am reading a book by Brian Greene titled, “The Elegant Universe....Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.”

I’m on Chapter 3 where he is desribing how the circumference of a circle does NOT equal pi*diameter or 2*pi*r.

I need a break so my head does not explode.

Anyone here foloow this stuff?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/06/2005 at 04:33 PM   
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   Tuesday - April 05, 2005

You Think People Are Overweight Now?

Wait until this technology grabs hold.

For couch potatoes---you no longer need to even press buttons on the remote.  Just talk into the damned thing. Soon it’ll order your pizza and beer, fatso!

If that weren’t bad enough, they now have IPods where you can change the songs by simply nodding your head. Better not be dancing or you’ll be in a world of hurt.

So, can you see where we are headed with this sort of stuff?  Tep!!  A nation of Jabba The Huts.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/05/2005 at 06:16 AM   
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   Monday - April 04, 2005

Technology Tip

Send A Message From Your Computer To Anyone’s Cell Phone

Want to send a short text message to somebody’s cell phone via the Web? You could generally do this by going to their cell provider’s Web site, but what if you don’t know which cell service they use? Now you don’t have to. Just go to the SMS Everywhere Web site and type in the cell phone number and your message. Check it out at SMS Everywhere. It’s free!

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/04/2005 at 02:25 PM   
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From The “Blindingly Obvious” Department

British scientists (yes, let’s pick on the wetbacks and Brits today) concluded that nuclear waste need to either be stored underground or on the surface.

No!!!!!!!  Really?  Underground?  On the surface?  What other choices do we have?

Well.............................."Gee, I thought we could store it in the ocean.  You know, where all that salty corrosive water could eat away the containers?”

Or maybe “hey, let’s store it in space......where a rocket ship could suffer a breakdown, explode in flight and rain nuclear waste over half the planet?”

“I know, I know, let’s focus our karmic energy, meditate and make it go away by thinking it away!”

Am I missing something here or are these guys really that stupid?  Or is this just bad reporting?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/04/2005 at 05:33 AM   
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   Sunday - April 03, 2005

Spring Forward

It is now 2:00am on Sunday, April 3, 2005.. This blog will now officially spring forward one hour and magically lose sixty minutes of valuable time .... tick .... tock .... tick .... tock ....

It is now officially 3:00am on Sunday April 3, 2005. Do not forget to set all of your clocks today and prepare to drink extra coffee on Monday morning.

If you’re looking for someone to blame for this atrocity, look no further than Benjamin Franklin ....

The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, “An Economical Project.”

Some of Franklin’s friends, inventors of a new kind of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme that they continued corresponding with Franklin even after he returned to America.

The idea was first advocated seriously by a London builder, William Willett (1857-1915), in the pamphlet “Waste of Daylight” (1907) that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. As he was taking an early morning ride through Petts Wood, near Croydon, Willett was struck by the fact that the blinds of nearby houses were closed, even though the sun was fully risen. When questioned as to why he didn’t simply get up an hour earlier, Willett replied with typical British humor, “What?” In his pamphlet “The Waste of Daylight” he wrote: “Everyone appreciates the long, light evenings. Everyone laments their shortage as Autumn approaches; and everyone has given utterance to regret that the clear, bright light of an early morning during Spring and Summer months is so seldom seen or used”.

Daylight savings time officially first became law in the United States on March 19, 1918 by joint resolution of Congress during World War I and was later made permanent by the same group of scoundrels on January 20, 1942.

Daylight Savings Time Trivia:

Amtrak
To keep to their published timetables, trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the United States that are running on time stop at 2 A.M. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring DST time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2 A.M., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time.

Palestinian Terrorists
In September 1999, the Palestinian West Bank was on daylight saving time while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank Palestinians prepared time bombs and smuggled them to Arab Israelis, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded—one hour too early—killing three terrorists instead of two busloads of people, the intended victims.

Note: I am actually posting this at 10:00pm Saturday night, prior to going to bed. The Expression Engine blog software, which allows me to set future datetimes for posts (causing them to magically appear here while I am elsewhere) refuses to let me set the time to 2:00am. It is as if that hour has ceased to exist in the overall space-time continuum. Cue up Rod Serling and eerie “Twilight Zone” music in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 ....

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   Saturday - April 02, 2005

Water On Mars

Much has been written about colonizing Mars and the US has sent several probes up there.

Many pictures have been sent back (and really, think about it---isn’t it fascinating that we are able to photograph something so far away--on site--and transmit it back here millions and millions of miles away?)

Anyway, until recently, none of the photos have shown and water in its liquid state.

Until now.  Continue reading to find out more about this water on Mars story.

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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   Wednesday - March 30, 2005

Do You Use P2P?

Even if you have no idea what I am talking about, you MUST pay attention to this.

It is very important because one day you might use it and you should know.

It started a few days ago when Michelle Malkin posted about using P2P to locate personal tax forms and social security numbers.

Then another guy did some digging and found even more info--complete spreadsheets.

Now she writes that kiddie porn is out there, too!  Whole videos and pictures of baby rapes, etc.  This is sick stuff!

If you use P2P, remember to keep your personal crap on a different directory.  If you have child porn or use P2P to download it, tell us!  Please!!!

That way we can call the cops and put your sick ass in jail, you pervert.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/30/2005 at 06:38 AM   
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   Tuesday - March 29, 2005

The Future?

The scene:  a suburban home.

Woman gets up out of bed, takes shower, stands in front of mirror, glances down at her breasts, begins rubbing and squeezing them.  Something’s not right.

She dresses, gets in her car and goes to the doctor.  Tests reveal cancer.  She needs a mastectomy.  She is devastated.

Soon she need not be.  Read this.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/29/2005 at 07:09 AM   
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   Monday - March 28, 2005

Not Again!

Tsunami Possible! Head For The High Ground!
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Interesting Snippets

Big brother will not only be watching....but listening to you in Chicago.

I can see the ACLU with its panties in a collective wad already.

First we had the Prius.  Now this.

Railroads will never be the same now that the Green Goat is here.

Click here to see a video.

Men are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Here we find a man who got pissed at his wife and withheld sex from her. Courts ruled she could get a divorce.  Oh, did I mention he did so for 7 years?

And if your wife cheats on you, even if she does it more than once, she’ll still take you to the cleaners when you try to dump her for infidelity.

In this case, she got houses, cars, jewelry and LOTS of cash.  About 25% of the estate.

Something is VERY wrong with that.

Somehow I believe that it won’t happen again to this guy.  He’ll either not marry or have one hell of an iron-clad pre-nup.

For all you “single” guys out there---do the same thing.  Keep what’s yours and don’t let the little head talk for the big one.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!

In this case, if she were on the second floor you’d be able to reach it on the ground floor and climb up.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/28/2005 at 06:11 AM   
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   Sunday - March 27, 2005

50 Years Ago

Before anyone asks, yes, I still have my slide rule and I still remember how to use it. I also have an abacus .. I know how to use that too. This hunk of iron from IBM had much, much less computing power than one of today’s Playstations. In fact, an Atari 2600 could probably run circles around this beast. Besides, Pac-Man is much more fun than 150 engineers.

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