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A forthcoming book:

Twinkie, Deconstructed

(Okay, not the full title, but the book’s whole title does sound interesting, in a quirky sort of way).

More to the point–how does one classify the Twinky?

Whole Foods to buy out Wild Oats?

Trader Joe’s is still definitely better than either one.

A forthcoming book:

Twinkie, Deconstructed

(Okay, not the full title, but the book’s whole title does sound interesting, in a quirky sort of way).

More to the point–how does one classify the Twinky?

Whole Foods to buy out Wild Oats?

Trader Joe’s is still definitely better than either one.

Which of the following current highly covered stories are you paying the least attention to:

a) Britney Spears‘ latest actions
b) Anna Nicole Smith story
c) The Obama-Clinton cage match

Piggy-backing on a previous post of mine, about an increase in scientific literacy in America (an increase, that still leaves an underwhelming total). From a piece at ABC News:

“One take-away is that news organizations — including this one — need to sharpen their efforts to report scientific studies accurately.” Last week’s stories on naps, adoption and spouseless women get re-examined

Perhaps it should be a requirement for all journalists to take a basic statistics course? Or even a basic experimental/laboratory science? Though this may be part of an overall Liberal Arts education. (Different discussion for another time)

Sadly this will score him some points within the fringes of the party and/or some members of the academia crowd.

Edwards: “Perhaps the Greatest Short-Term Threat to World Peace Is the Possibility That Israel Would Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities” (NRO citing Variety

On the other hand, this obviously won’t play well with the Jewish demographic–a significant one in the Democratic Party.

Struggling/declining car maker + struggling car maker = a merger for the better?

True, cooperation between the two manufacturers could actually produce success for the two parties, but as this currently stand, the math doesn’t seem to add up.

Gizmodo has a post up:

How to Piss off Balmer and Steal Vista

The bigger question is why would anyone want to steal Vista and deal with all the headaches that it brings?

Two asprin may not even be enough!

Approximately 28 percent of American adults currently qualify as scientifically literate, an increase from around 10 percent in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to Miller’s research.–Science Daily

This is naturally a positive development, though as the referenced article points out, this is below where we should be.

However, what percentage of writers for the major papers and/or wire services are adequately “scientifically literate”? [One would assume most are, but one never knows]

As such how prone are Americans to fall for pseudoscience? Or is it a better question to ask how many journalists fall prey to pseudoscience and (inadvertently) relay it to the masses in their publications as “science”

Yes, it’s my Birthday

I’m turning 25 today

Wow, I feel old….

Spent the evening reinstalling Windows
Even worse, was the fact that my OEM disks were only from SP1

(Meaning I’ve had to download over 80+ service packs and counting) . The joys.

Next up will be reinstalling all my applications and the like. Even more fun (can you detect the sarcasm?). At least I’ve gotten Firefox up and running

Jobs, Dell share stage, blast teacher unions

Women’s offices had three to four times more bacteria, mold and yeast than men’s

Not sure what the hell is going on in my apartment, but I’m freezing. Too cold to type even!

The whole Y2K “bug” scare was quite amusing from an outsiders perspective. [Ironically, at the office we had an old application which wasn't Y2K compliant, so it's totally confused to this day--it's not really in use anymore].

The next big software bug looks to be the new DST time change date adjustment.

Why Congress even had to monkey around with the clock is another question.

It’ll be interesting to see how this problem is patched up.

Prediction: Most of the private sector will have things covered; whereas Government computers will likely go whacky.

Probably one of the most interesting and amusing rants you’ll read:

On those people who buy new gadgets

Personally I like Gizmodo for the pictures of the technology. (Too frugal to purchase many of the items anyway)

Back home, The Brother called all excited this morning that his school was closed because of the (real) snowstorm in the Cleveland area.

Thing is–the Brother, as with all the other students, parents, teachers and staff in the district, didn’t know that they were going to have a snow day until 7AM!

Here’s the thing–some students and staff had already left home for the day, only to arrive at buildings to find locked doors. Not to mention parents who had to make last minute arrangements because of their children.

True, the superintendent did post a letter of apology , but still, this decision came too late.

The Shaker Heights school district is known for being very, very, very reluctant to close for snow days, but this was not acceptable at all.

Coverage:
Fox 8 Cleveland–video clip

So at long last, we had our first real snowfall of the season here in NYC!

According to the TV reporters–the snowfall should make EVERYBODY PANIC!

What did we get, 2″? Back in Cleveland, that’s nothing! Whatever happened to the idea of NYCers being “tough” people?

And for a change, this time Rove’s statement likely reflects bi-partisan sentiments:

Rove: 2008 Race Is Already Too Much, Too Soon

Exactly my sentiments!

On a similar note, just like some others, I don’t have a candidate.

Nor am I really paying any attention for that matter.