U.S. captain says arming crews could help fight pirates
This is one of those DUH Moments, isn’t it?
Can Congress Make Health-Care Reform Pay for Itself?
Can Congress make Santa Claus bring us bunnies for Easter?
Michael Brown Assails Obama on Handling of Swine Flu
The Asshat of Katrina spews forth on Obama. Talk about glass houses, Brownie….
US Fidelis car [...]
Take a moment to visit Popular Mechanics. There’s a very interesting story about Project ISIS, which is a balloon-like airship designed to stay in the atmosphere for up to a year. Its function is radar and it will monitor “everything from aircraft to individual troops across hundreds of miles.”
At a cost of only $400 million, [...]
The World Health Organization raised the alert to level five - one short of a full pandemic.
Not bad, considering a few days ago it was raised to four. Who says the WHO isn’t paying attention?
Here’s some basic flu information from the BBC.
Now, ask yourself if masks can actually help stop the spread….
Follow the efforts to [...]
Why was there a very large plane flying low through New York with a fighter escort?
On the surface it’s “Jeepers, we’re sorry, that was stupid! We were just setting up a photo-op.”
The president is pissed, claiming he didn’t know. He was not on board the plane, which is known as Air Force One only when [...]
Some of the guys at work were tossing around the idea of running VMware’s ESXi server on some quad-core boxes we have. One has gone ahead and installed it, with positive results.
Backing up a moment, VMware decided to make ESXi server free. This is ground breaking because it allows one to put together some interesting [...]
I do not set out expecting (or wanting) weird things to happen: they just do.
There are approximately fourteen people at work expecting babies, at least four of them twins. The call has gone out: DO NOT DRINK THE WATER.
It is too late in my department: we have one set of twins and one boy, both [...]
I’m banging away on the keyboard and I hear the wife howling with laughter and pointing at the screen. This is no small feat, as I have the full ear headphones on, in a vain attempt to block out the noise.
Mrs. leftystrat is watching some show about a company that does auto repossession. I beg [...]
Check out Ron Paul on YouTube.
He has some very interesting comments on the flu `pandemic’ and the government’s reaction to it. We are much the worse for not having elected him president.
[my wife and I voted for him]
Lifehacker did a list of the top ten downloads for Ubuntu 9.04. While I agree with some of them, I figured it was time to post a real list (read: mine).
These apps are in daily use at leftystrat’s lair:
Firefox: no one has come up with a better concept than plugins
Opera: when you really need to [...]
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