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Ever wondered how much of the American News is actually covering international stories? Now you know!

Seriously. This scientist fellow recovered a hard drive that fell from the sky out of the exploding Columbia Space Shuttle six months after the incident. It was warped and melted, but he managed to recover the platters inside the drive and install them in a new drive. Guess what!

"However, at the core of the drive, the spinning metal platters that actually store data were not warped. They had been gouged and pitted, but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full, and the damage happened where data had not been written.

Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives, as other approaches do."

If the space shuttle was running DOS, a) Why is the Space Program so bass-ackwards and b) How much better could it be with new technology?

Let's review: the 340MB harddrive (for scale purposes, I have a 500GB harddrive in my own home computer) was only HALF FULL of data. Was it written in COBOL or something? Jeepers, people!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/09/columbia.data.ap/index.html

Ok, I grew too skinny for my Banana Republic jeans, so I bought myself some (ugh) Gap jeans. they actually fit perrrrfectly, so I was quite pleased with the situation. I wore them and wore them and everyone loved them! So I finally gave them a gentle wash last night. I hung them to dry. then today the waist is too floppy and loose! What gives? Why can't I just find jeans that fit!! I expected these to shrink a bit, not get floppy!!

... you need to STOP INSTALLING SHIT on your computer. Just stop. Walk away. Turn it off and don't turn it on again. You broke it. You obviously can't read a ToS or uncheck the prechecked boxes when you install handy things. Please just stick with ATM machines and leave the home computer alone until you're ready to handle the responsibility.

;)

I always wondered what I was, now I know how to label my rather non-desciptive belief system! You can take this rather interesting and quite thoughtful (unusual for the internet, no?) quiz here: http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Your Results: The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa. Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking. How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards.

1.  Neo-Pagan (100%) 2.  Unitarian Universalism (98%) 3.  New Age (95%) 4.  Liberal Quakers (84%) 5.  Secular Humanism (81%) 6.  Theravada Buddhism (78%) 7.  Mahayana Buddhism (75%) 8.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%) 9.  New Thought (64%) 10.  Reform Judaism (62%) 11.  Taoism (57%) 12.  Scientology (57%) 13.  Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (50%) 14.  Nontheist (50%) 15.  Jainism (49%) 16.  Bahá'í Faith (47%) 17.  Hinduism (45%) 18.  Sikhism (44%) 19.  Orthodox Quaker (43%) 20.  Orthodox Judaism (33%) 21.  Islam (22%) 22.  Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (21%) 23.  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (21%) 24.  Seventh Day Adventist (18%) 25.  Eastern Orthodox (14%) 26.  Roman Catholic (14%) 27.  Jehovah's Witness (11%)

“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.” -- George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Oh reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeallly?

I just thought I would share this Public Service Announcement regarding Masturbation, circa 1844. Please beware!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_re_us/katrina_flood_lawsuit

" NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a "hurricane highway," a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into the city, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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The suit charges the agency with ignoring repeated warnings that the MRGO turned into a "hurricane highway," funneling Katrina's storm surge into St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans and overwhelming levees and flood walls.

The 76-mile shipping channel was built about 40 years ago as a shortcut to New Orleans. For years, environmentalists and emergency planners have blasted the channel as a destructive force because it has eroded enormous tracts of wetlands and increased the threat of flooding."

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I doubt much will come of the lawsuit, but at least a bit of justice is being served. Don't let Bush forget Katrina!

Today I got some new plants for my patio! I've decided to make a full fledged container garden this summer. So we went out to Rain Forest Nursery in Langley and picked up a few very cool plants! I can't wait to plant them and arrange them. Naturally it's raining now. Argh.

What are you doing this weekend?

I *love* this commerical! It's been playing on Comedy Network after 10pm lately and I had to see it twice before I realized what it was. The windshield wipers are my favourite part. :)