The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Facebook faces suit over private messages
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/technology/facebook-privacy-lawsuit/
It is amazing to me that people insist ‘free’ mean without cost. No one anywhere does anything for free. Even those who donate ‘out of the goodness of their heart’ are doing so …
‘Affluenza’: Is it real?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/health/affluenza-youth/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
More proof, as if it were needed, of our oligarchical police state. Rich, get off, poor go to jail for the rest of your life. I have no doubt that the ‘syndrome’ is real, but …
Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/lurid-subprime-scams-unveiled-in-long-running-fraud-trial-20131212
Matt is more upset about this sort of thing than I am. I _expect_ this sort of behavior when our government regulation has been as completely neutered as it has been …
Exercise as Potent Medicine
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/exercise-as-potent-medicine/?_r=0
I have noted many times that exercise is good for you (just a few examples):
…Lizard Breath May Have Evolved Before Dinosaurs
http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/monitor-lizards-breathing-may-have-evolved-before-dinos-131211.htm
This is interesting and has me wondering how it is that we are only just now discovering it. That birds had a funky way of breathing that seemed to super charge their …
On my ride in this morning I had a mental conversation with my boy about encyclopedias in general and Wikipedia in particular. I figured it would be a good thing to add to my blog, so here she be…
There …
Self-Healing Battery Electrode Shows Promise for Smartphones, EVs
http://www.dailytech.com/SelfHealing+Battery+Electrode+Shows+Promise+for+Smartphones+EVs/article33767c.htm
I didn’t get the impression that this design had higher density, just that it lasted longer. Sure, that is nice, instead of replacing your PV/wind turbine batteries every 5 years you …
Does calculator overstate heart attack risk?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/health/cholesterol-calculator/
When I first read an article about this new way of doing things that was expected to double or triple the number of people on statins I was very skeptical (see here for …
Goals vs. Systems
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_vs_systems/
This is another interesting article from Mr. Dilbert. I suggest my reader(s) take a look, but for this post it was more or less a trigger and my post won’t focus too much on it. When …
This is about the typhoon Yolanda that struck the Philippines at Tacloban, Leyte, where my parents-in-law live. Fortunately, they have a very sturdy reinforced concrete house that is several stories tall and were able to weather the storm comparatively well …