Yostivanich

“It was in med­ical school that he con­ceived the idea of becom­ing a great sex researcher. Doc­tors knew noth­ing of human sex­u­al­ity except what Alfred Kin­sey was record­ing in the 1940s and early ’50s, about a decade before Mas­ters and John­son got started. But the Kin­sey Report was mainly hearsay — inter­views with patients. William Mas­ters didn’t want to talk; he wanted to watch, mea­sure, film, touch. … But I would wager that for every myth they debunked, they intro­duced another, equally dam­ag­ing.” Interesting.

“When­ever I hear about a “new” nov­el­ist, they turn out to be in their 30s. Why is that? It seems like you hear about new musi­cians and actors and other cre­ative peo­ple in when they are in their 20s.”

“This rocket is headed for the Moon. Pic­tured above, a huge Altas V rocket roared off the launch pad last week to start NASA’s first mis­sions to Earth’s Moon in 10 years. The rocket is car­ry­ing two robotic space­craft. The Lunar Recon­nais­sance Orbiter (LRO) is sched­uled to orbit and bet­ter map the Moon, search for buried and hid­den ice, and return many high res­o­lu­tion images. Some images will be below one-meter in res­o­lu­tion and include images of his­toric Apollo land­ing sites. Exploratory data and images should allow a more informed choice of pos­si­ble future astro­naut land­ing sites. The Lunar CRater Obser­va­tion and Sens­ing Satel­lite (LCROSS) is sched­uled to mon­i­tor the con­trolled impact of the rocket’s upper stage into a per­ma­nently shad­owed crater near the Moon’s south pole. This impact, which should occur in about three months, might be vis­i­ble on Earth through small telescopes.”

“Fifty-three per­cent of women and nearly half of all men report hav­ing used a vibra­tor, accord­ing to two new national sur­veys from Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity recently pub­lished in The Jour­nal of Sex­ual Medicine.”

Basi­cally real time search is a hard prob­lem because it’s hard to ver­ify and cre­ate authority.

“Israeli drones unlaw­fully killed at least 29 Pales­tin­ian civil­ians dur­ing the Gaza con­flict six months ago, the rights group Human Rights Watch says.”

“The US has imposed sanc­tions on an Iran­ian firm accused of help­ing North Korea with its nuclear pro­gramme. The US Trea­sury says Hong Kong Elec­tron­ics moved mil­lions of dol­lars to two North Korean com­pa­nies linked to Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.”

“The US Jus­tice Depart­ment is seek­ing the names of more than 50,000 US cus­tomers with Swiss accounts as part of a law­suit against UBS.” No longer will the Swiss bank account be known as the refugee of those cheat­ing on their taxes.

“Does Twit­ter dumb us down or sim­ply reveal our innate goofi­ness?” I say the latter.

“Used in yards, farms and parks through­out the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now researchers have found that one of Roundup’s inert ingre­di­ents can kill human cells, par­tic­u­larly embry­onic, pla­cen­tal and umbil­i­cal cord cells.” Oops?

“A remark­ably well-preserved fos­sil of a dinosaur has been analysed by sci­en­tists writ­ing in the jour­nal Pro­ceed­ings of the Royal Soci­ety B. They describe how the fossil’s soft tis­sues were spared from decay by fine sed­i­ments that formed a min­eral cast. Tests have shown that the fos­sil still holds cell-like struc­tures — but their con­stituent pro­teins have decayed. The team says the cel­lu­lar struc­ture of the dinosaur’s skin was sim­i­lar to that of dinosaurs’ modern-day descendants. ”

“That would chal­lenge the most effi­cient facil­i­ties built by Google (GOOG), which has an aver­age PUE of 1.16 for its six company-built data cen­ters, with one facil­ity cur­rently run­ning at a PUE of 1.12.” Yahoo’s new cen­ter will run at PUE 1.1, pretty impressive.

“A fed­eral advi­sory panel voted nar­rowly on Tues­day to rec­om­mend a ban on Per­co­cet and Vicodin, two of the most pop­u­lar pre­scrip­tion painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver. The two drugs com­bine a nar­cotic with aceta­minophen, the ingre­di­ent found in pop­u­lar over-the-counter prod­ucts like Tylenol and Excedrin. High doses of aceta­minophen are a lead­ing cause of liver dam­age, and the panel noted that patients who take Per­co­cet and Vicodin for long peri­ods often need higher and higher doses to achieve the same effect.” But what will House pop?

“Health insur­ance is sup­posed to offer pro­tec­tion — both med­ically and finan­cially. But as it turns out, an esti­mated three-quarters of peo­ple who are pushed into per­sonal bank­ruptcy by med­ical prob­lems actu­ally had insur­ance when they got sick or were injured. And so, even as Wash­ing­ton tries to cover the tens of mil­lions of Amer­i­cans with­out med­ical insur­ance, many health pol­icy experts say sim­ply giv­ing every­one an insur­ance card will not be enough to fix what is wrong with the sys­tem. Too many other peo­ple already have cov­er­age so mea­ger that a med­ical cri­sis means finan­cial calamity.

One of them is Lawrence Yur­din, a 64-year-old com­puter secu­rity spe­cial­ist. Although the brochure on his Aetna pol­icy seemed to indi­cate it cov­ered up to $150,000 a year in hos­pi­tal care, the fine print excluded nearly all of the treat­ment he received at an Austin, Tex., hospital.”

“The move reverses a 2008 rul­ing by the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and effec­tively ends a see­saw polit­i­cal bat­tle between automak­ers and envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tors that began in Sacra­mento eight years ago when the Cal­i­for­nia Leg­is­la­ture first took up the issue.” Cal­i­for­nia can set it’s own stan­dards for cars and light trucks.

“A United Nations inquiry into the assas­si­na­tion of for­mer Pak­istani Prime Min­is­ter Benazir Bhutto is to begin. It is headed by Chile’s ambas­sador to the UN, Her­aldo Munoz, and includes a for­mer Indone­sian attor­ney gen­eral and a for­mer senior Irish police offi­cer. ” Hope­fully some­thing good will come from this.

“Same-sex behav­ior is a nearly uni­ver­sal phe­nom­e­non in the ani­mal king­dom, com­mon across species, from worms to frogs to birds, con­cludes a new review of exist­ing research.” Just saying.

“The offi­cial, Paul Gam­mill, said the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion was tak­ing a closer look at how uni­ver­si­ties car­ried out the pri­vacy law, known as the Fam­ily Edu­ca­tional Rights and Pri­vacy Act (Ferpa), in the wake of a series of arti­cles pub­lished recently in The Colum­bus Dis­patch that found the law was often mis­used by col­lege ath­letic depart­ments seek­ing to with­hold doc­u­ments from pub­lic scrutiny that could be dam­ag­ing or embar­rass­ing. The reports also found wide dis­par­i­ties in the types of infor­ma­tion that uni­ver­si­ties released.”

Texas pub­lic sex offender search.

“Ger­man unem­ploy­ment rose in June, offi­cial fig­ures have shown, but the increase was smaller than expected. The num­ber of peo­ple out of work reached 3.495 mil­lion on a sea­son­ally adjusted basis, a rise of 31,000 on May’s num­ber, offi­cial fig­ures showed.”

“The most com­plete ter­rain map of the Earth’s sur­face has been pub­lished. The data, com­pris­ing 1.3 mil­lion images, come from a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the US space agency Nasa and the Japan­ese trade min­istry.” So cool.

“A plague of tree-killing bee­tles which swept across British Colum­bia is threat­en­ing to spread east, to the US. The moun­tain pine bee­tle has killed more than half of all lodge pole pine in the province and is now active in neigh­bour­ing Alberta.” It could next kill jack pines in the US.

“He applied for a per­son­al­ized license plate read­ing NO GODS. Take a wild guess what hap­pened… Rejected. Why? It was deemed inap­pro­pri­ate.” I totally want one.

I love where he goes against what he said within a sen­tence of himself.

I totally agree it doesn’t make any sense.

“In an inter­view with Alan Car­lin, co-author of an inter­nal EPA doc­u­ment that the agency allegedly — in Steve Doocy’s words — “hushed up,” Fox & Friends advanced the document’s false claim that, as Doocy put it, “for the last 11 years, tem­per­a­tures had been drop­ping.”” Oh Fox and Friends logic is so hard.

I know busi­ness that are using Win98 and 95.

“You’re still not sat­is­fied with this arrange­ment? I thought you were the one who wanted school prayer in the first place! Oh, I see… you only want school prayer in the man­ner of your reli­gion. Well, I’m sorry to say that not every­one believes in your reli­gion, and we can’t have school prayers for every pos­si­ble reli­gion! That would be ridicu­lous! Why don’t you just pray silently to your own god while every­one else is recit­ing the school prayer?”

“On Tues­day, Mr. Zelaya’s new­found rel­e­vance took him to one of the world’s biggest stages, at the lectern of the United Nations Gen­eral Assem­bly, where he por­trayed him­self as the vic­tim of a vicious, power-hungry elite that refused to share power with his country’s many poor. A one-page res­o­lu­tion — spon­sored by coun­tries often at log­ger­heads, includ­ing the United States and Venezuela — passed by accla­ma­tion after sus­tained applause in the 192-member body.”

“It had planned — and put money aside — for a steady march of retirees over time. But instead, tens of thou­sands of blue-collar work­ers, most in their 40s and 50s, are all becom­ing eli­gi­ble for retire­ment ben­e­fits now, as the com­pany rapidly down­sizes.” GM’s pen­sion fund is being used to pay early retired work­ers, and they aren’t able to put money back.

“So while Washington’s reac­tion has been strong and swift, when it comes to state­ments, its actions have so far been mea­sured. This is a sig­nal that Wash­ing­ton is not keen to use its clout to help Mr Zelaya return to power, shy­ing away from any action that could be seen as inter­ven­tion­ism in a region where the US has a long, com­plex his­tory. The reac­tion is also in line with the promise Pres­i­dent Obama made to Latin Amer­ica at the Orga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States sum­mit in April, not to dic­tate US pol­icy on the con­ti­nent any­more but to be an equal partner. ”

“The Obama admin­is­tra­tion intro­duced online tools on Tues­day that will track and ana­lyze the more than $70 bil­lion a year that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment spends on infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy.” Cool, now roll this out to all other money spent by the government.

“The eurozone’s annual rate of infla­tion turned neg­a­tive in June for the first time since the sin­gle cur­rency was intro­duced in 1999.”

“China has agreed to give Zim­babwe a loan of $950m (£573m) to help it revive its bat­tered econ­omy, Prime Min­is­ter Mor­gan Tsvan­gi­rai has said.”

“In which coun­tries — apart from the United States — do ter­res­trial radio sta­tions NOT pay per­form­ers for their songs? Iran, China, North Korea and Rwanda. Artists and their record labels are call­ing on mem­bers of Con­gress to bring the US into line with the rest of the world — and with satel­lite, inter­net and cable radio sta­tions — by pass­ing the Per­for­mance Rights Act.”

“Do you have eyes behind your back? If not get some.”

“Twit­ter is a top 30 site over­all in the US for the first time per data for last week. The site was #31 in the UK last week & #43 in Canada.” Super impres­sive Twitter.

“A for­mer C.I.A. sta­tion chief has been charged with sex­u­ally assault­ing a woman in Alge­ria and could face up to life in prison if con­victed, the Jus­tice Depart­ment said on Tuesday.”

“IE users can suck it.” I must agree.

“The PHP devel­op­ment team is proud to announce the imme­di­ate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improve­ment in the 5.X series, which includes a large num­ber of new fea­tures and bug fixes.”

What Gru­ber said.

“Con­ser­v­a­tives in the media have crit­i­cized Pres­i­dent Obama’s con­dem­na­tion of the Hon­duran president’s ouster, assert­ing that Obama is tak­ing the same side as Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Hugo Chavez and the lead­er­ship in Cuba. How­ever, the Euro­pean Union has also con­demned the ouster.” And the UN and well every other coun­try on the face of the earth.

“Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s party secured a crit­i­cal 60-member major­ity in the US Sen­ate, after the last unde­cided seat was awarded to a Demo­c­rat. The Min­nesota Supreme Court con­firmed that Al Franken had nar­rowly won November’s poll in the state. ”

Email directly to flickr and twit­ter or send from a photo to twitter.

“A truly lim­ited government—a gov­ern­ment strictly lim­ited to the pro­tec­tion of the indi­vid­ual rights to life, lib­erty, prop­erty, and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness. In a sys­tem of full cap­i­tal­ism, there should be (but, his­tor­i­cally, has not yet been) a com­plete sep­a­ra­tion of state and eco­nom­ics, in the same way and for the same rea­sons as the sep­a­ra­tion of state and church.” My issue is that there has not ever been such a true cap­i­tal­is­tic state as it’s a scary prospect with good rea­sons. Also the “life, lib­erty and pur­suit of hap­pi­ness” can mean what­ever the gov­ern­ment want them to mean. Last point “pur­suit of hap­pi­ness” orig­i­nally meant eco­nomic well being not what­ever you may think.

UA Pro­filer is a community-driven project for gath­er­ing browser per­for­mance char­ac­ter­is­tics (par­al­lel con­nec­tions, caching, etc.).

“Minnesota’s Supreme Court unan­i­mously denied Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor Norm Coleman’s appeal today, rul­ing that Demo­c­rat Al Franken is the win­ner of November’s Sen­ate race. This rul­ing (see PDF) upholds the deci­sion of lower courts in Min­nesota, and states that Franken offi­cially won the race by 312 votes – 0.011%.”