Yostivanich

“Al-Qaeda is likely to try again to use air­craft to attack the West, White­hall offi­cials have told the BBC.” I have the sneaky sus­pi­cion this the whole only look­ing back­wards and forwards.

“The Iran­ian author­i­ties on Mon­day and Tues­day raided offices con­nected to two senior oppo­si­tion lead­ers in Tehran, arrest­ing their top aides and seiz­ing doc­u­ments, Iran­ian news agen­cies and the lead­ers’ Web sites reported.”

“Built with typo­graphic stan­dards in mind, Base­line makes it easy to develop a web­site with a pleas­ing grid and good typog­ra­phy. Base­line starts with sev­eral files to reset the browser’s default behav­ior, build a basic typo­graphic lay­out — includ­ing style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 ele­ments — and build a sim­ple grid sys­tem. Base­line was born to be a quick way to pro­to­type a web­site and grew up to become a full typo­graphic frame­work for the web using “real” base­line grid as it’s foun­da­tion.” The forms styling seems a lit­tle weird to me.

“A female Sudanese jour­nal­ist, jailed for a month after being con­victed of “dress­ing inde­cently” by wear­ing trousers, has been freed after one day. Lubna Ahmed Hus­sein was sent to prison after refus­ing to pay a fine of about $200 (£122), say­ing she did not want to “give the ver­dict any legit­i­macy”. Mohedinne Titawi, of the Sudanese Union of Jour­nal­ists, said the union had paid the fine to secure her release. Ms Hus­sein, in her 30s, had faced a penalty of up to 40 lashes. Inter­na­tional rights groups crit­i­cised the trial from the start, with the UN on Tues­day say­ing the charges against her breached inter­na­tional law.”

“Signs You’re in a Class with Non-geeks” It’s funny.

“Extra uni­ver­sity places should be funded as a way out of reces­sion and unem­ploy­ment, says the Organ­i­sa­tion for Eco­nomic Co-operation and Devel­op­ment. An annual inter­na­tional report com­par­ing edu­ca­tion sys­tems says economies and indi­vid­u­als con­tinue to ben­e­fit from higher qual­i­fi­ca­tions. “The ben­e­fits clearly out­weigh the costs in every coun­try,” says report author, Andreas Schle­icher. ” I agree higher edu­ca­tion is the key to rais­ing people’s eco­nomic status.

“Chi­nese gov­ern­ment offi­cials signed an agree­ment on Tues­day with First Solar, an Amer­i­can solar devel­oper, for a 2,000-megawatt pho­to­voltaic farm to be built in the Mon­go­lian desert.” Do con­ser­v­a­tives dis­like green energy because China is lead­ing the wave in it?

“I’ve always loved the John and Yoko photo. The orig­i­nal was trans­gres­sive, pow­er­ful, emo­tional in its rever­sal of gen­der roles — her clothed, him naked. It says so much about the vul­ner­a­bil­ity that comes with truly lov­ing some­one, and about forg­ing an egal­i­tar­ian rela­tion­ship in a fucked-up world. The re-interpreted ver­sion isn’t pro­found. It’s just porny. Some­thing we’ve seen a thou­sand times before.” Agreed.

“Did Obama change his back-to-school speech in response to pres­sure from con­ser­v­a­tives? One exer­cise in the accom­pa­ny­ing les­son plan was reworded. Schools were not required to use the les­son plan, whether or not they chose to have chil­dren watch the broad­cast, and that exer­cise was one of eight sug­gested activ­i­ties” The word­ing that changed was bad.

“Nasa needs its annual $18bn bud­get boosted by $3bn if astro­nauts are to con­duct mean­ing­ful mis­sions like trips to the Moon and beyond, a panel warns. The panel, con­vened by the White House to review human space­flight plans, has deliv­ered its sum­mary find­ings. It says the space­ship and rocket pro­grammes being devel­oped to replace the shut­tle are not presently viable. The group has given Pres­i­dent Barack Obama a series of options to help him shape the US space agency’s future. But the panel, led by retired aero­space exec­u­tive Norm Augus­tine, says only a fund­ing increase can truly get Nasa back on track.” Unfor­tu­nate but expected.

“Fox News per­son­al­i­ties, includ­ing O’Reilly Fac­tor guest-host Laura Ingra­ham, have attacked Pres­i­dent Obama for appoint­ing “czars” — a term the chan­nel uses to refer to any White House offi­cial tasked to advise the pres­i­dent on a spe­cific issue, regard­less of whether the posi­tion is sub­ject to Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion — with Fox News host Gretchen Carl­son sin­gling out the appoint­ment of a “bor­der czar” for crit­i­cism. How­ever, dur­ing the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly called for the appoint­ment of an “immi­gra­tion czar,” as well as a “char­ity czar” and a “dis­as­ter relief vic­tims fam­ily czar.””

“The US has moved to freeze the assets of two North Korean com­pa­nies in an effort to enforce sanc­tions against Pyongyang over its nuclear devel­op­ment. The Gen­eral Bureau of Atomic Energy and the Korea Tan­gun Trad­ing Corp were both deemed to be sup­port­ing North Korea’s nuclear and mis­siles pro­gramme. North Korea says it is in the final stages of ura­nium enrich­ment, bring­ing it closer to mak­ing a nuclear weapon.”

” With the clock tick­ing on a year-end dead­line, Pres­i­dent Obama is press­ing ahead with a top-to-bottom review of America’s nuclear weapons to see how much the arse­nal can shrink, as his nego­tia­tors are rac­ing to wrap up a major new strate­gic arms con­trol treaty with Rus­sia. The last time the Pen­ta­gon reviewed its nuclear pos­ture, in 2001, it con­cluded that the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary could get by with 1,700 to 2,200 nuclear war­heads at the ready, a level the Bush admin­is­tra­tion found com­fort­able even as it demurred over a bind­ing treaty with Russia.”

Biol­o­gist go on a first date.

“Thrown, dropped, muti­lated, and ground-up alive. This is the dis­turb­ing real­ity faced by hun­dreds of thou­sands of chicks each day at the world’s largest egg-laying breed hatch­ery Hy-Line Inter­na­tional in Spencer, Iowa.”

“A Best Buy employee recently posted screen­shots of what he claims is part of a train­ing pro­gram about Win­dows 7. The screen­shots show some Win­dows vs. Linux com­par­isons. You prob­a­bly know where this is going.”

“Since we’re less than a week away from the third instal­la­tion of the
TechCrunch50 con­fer­ence, which I part­ner on with Mike Arring­ton of
Time 100 fame, I thought I would take a moment to dis­cuss the best
prac­tices for run­ning a booth or table at a trade show or con­fer­ence.
These points are gen­eral and are intended to apply to every­thing from
a 50-person SIG (spe­cial inter­est group), where you’re given a generic
fold­ing table, to a custom-built booth at a trade show like CES, held
in the Las Vegas Con­ven­tion Cen­ter.” Really good list.

“The world will suf­fer another finan­cial cri­sis, for­mer Fed­eral Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has told the BBC. He added that he had pre­dicted the crash would come as a reac­tion to a long period of pros­per­ity.” Never would have thought.

Com­puter design is quite often merely bad design done on a computer.”