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“Experts agree that from a prac­ti­cal and finan­cial point of view, vasec­tomies are an ideal form of birth con­trol. The pro­ce­dure — which cuts or seals the vas def­er­ens, the tubes that carry sperm from the tes­ti­cles — typ­i­cally costs $500 to $1,000, but is usu­ally cov­ered by insur­ance.” I once did a lit­tle bit of research into this, really easy and simple.

“Chi­nese gov­ern­ment plan­ners have long known that the urge of cou­ples to have sons was skew­ing the gen­der bal­ance of the pop­u­la­tion. But the study, by two Chi­nese uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sors and a Lon­don researcher, pro­vides some of the first hard data on the extent of the dis­par­ity and the fac­tors con­tribut­ing to it. They attrib­uted the imbal­ance almost entirely to cou­ples’ deci­sions to abort female fetuses.” Bad things abound.

“Jus­tice Gins­burg said the con­tro­versy was based on the mis­un­der­stand­ing that cit­ing a for­eign prece­dent means the court con­sid­ers itself bound by for­eign law as opposed to merely being influ­enced by such power as its rea­son­ing holds” Jus­tice Gins­burg explains why she wants the Supreme Court and other courts to look at for­eign courts.

“If media com­pa­nies want to com­pete with Google, they need to look at the source of its power — judg­ing good con­tent, which enables Google to be the most effi­cient and effec­tive dis­trib­u­tor of con­tent. They also need to look at Google’s fun­da­men­tal lim­i­ta­tion — its judg­ment is depen­dent on OTHER peo­ple express­ing their judg­ment of con­tent in the form of links. Above all, they need to look at sources of con­tent judg­ment that Google cur­rently can’t access, because they are not yet expressed as links on the web.” What can news­pa­pers do?

“Google does not con­trol the news, it exposes it.” Another side.

“What Google doesn’t men­tion is that the bil­lions of clicks and the mil­lions of ad dol­lars are so frag­mented among so many thou­sands of sites that no one site earns enough to have a decent online busi­ness. Where the real money ends up is at the one point in the sys­tem where traf­fic is con­cen­trated: the Google search engine.” One side of the Google, media deabate.

Hor­i­zon­tally cen­ter a menu.

I want to see what Wil Wright does.

Every­thing gets a men­tion when you talk about ter­ror­ism, every­thing is a tool for ter­ror­ists the same as a busi­ness or you and I.

“In addi­tion to 5, 10, 20 and 40GB caps, the com­pany said this week that it would offer a 100GB tier for heavy users. Prices (so far) would range from $29.95 to $75.00 a month, and users would be charged an extra dol­lar for every addi­tional giga­byte they down­load, up to a max­i­mum of $75. An “unlim­ited” band­width plan, there­fore, tops out at $150.” That’s not too bad at the moment, though in a cou­ple of years.

ONe makes not just a good man­ager but a great manager.

“The drug con­tains a chem­i­cal which pre­vents the malaria par­a­site get­ting rid of a toxic by-product of feed­ing on red blood cells. It also dis­ables a genetic defence that pre­vents the exist­ing drugs chloro­quine and qui­nine work­ing, Nature reports. ” That’s some awe­some research.

Free IP to loca­tion api, very useful.

Joomla tem­plates galore.

“But the five-week trial of Mr. Stevens offered a dif­fer­ent ver­sion of him, and only a dis­crete part of that was directly affected by the dis­cov­ery of repeated instances of pros­e­cu­to­r­ial mis­con­duct. The dis­clo­sures that pros­e­cu­tors had with­held infor­ma­tion from the defense did lit­tle to erase much of the evi­dence that Mr. Stevens, who had been a pow­er­ful and admired polit­i­cal fig­ure in Alaska, reg­u­larly and will­ingly accepted valu­able gifts from friends and favor-seekers that he did not report.” What does the NYT think of the dis­missal of the Stevens case?

“More than any nation I’ve ever vis­ited, Costa Rica is insist­ing that eco­nomic growth and envi­ron­men­tal­ism work together. It has cre­ated a holis­tic strat­egy to think about growth, one that demands that every­thing gets counted.” Inter­est­ing per­spec­tive from one Latin Amer­i­can country.

I would hon­estly hope the vast major­ity of Chris­tians wouldn’t agree with this kind of stuff.

This is just crazy.

“You’re not going to do this for­ever. There’s a finite amount of time you’re going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, every­body will see that, and they’ll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you’ll move.” That’s my goal.

“While Digg reex­am­ines the Dig­g­Bar, there are web­mas­ters who will remain con­cerned. My orig­i­nal arti­cle on URL short­en­ers has code you can use to block frame­bars. Wikipedia has a page about this, too, and you can see John Gruber’s code here. By the way, we actu­ally had that code on our site before the Dig­g­Bar came out, just as a gen­eral best prac­tice of break­ing frames.”

Is any­one all that surprised?

Sci­ence makes dat­ing fun.

What’s the dif­fer­ence between Digg’s bar and Facebook’s and others?

“No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, Stub­Hub and Box.net?? These pop­u­lar com­pa­nies just couldn’t resist pay­ing off Twit­ter users to put adver­tise­ments into their Twit­ter streams using the new pay-per-tweet ser­vice Mag­pie.” Adver­tis­ing wel­come to Twit­ter, we really thought you would kept clean of all the messy advertising.