Month: April 2008

  • Students Plagiarize Honor Code

    (via Madconomist) Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing. However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school’s code – without proper attribution. The student currently in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight, but […]

  • DARPA Aircraft to Stay In-Flight for Five Years

    (via Metafilter) "The VULTURE Air Vehicle Program is an exploratory development program with the overall goal to develop and demonstrate the ability to deliver and maintain an airborne payload on station for an uninterrupted period exceeding 5 years using a heavier-than-air platform system … The government is not interested in approaches that use either radioactive […]

  • Bank of England Bailout Kept Secret Forever

    £50 billion later: Requests under the Freedom of Information Act are to be denied. Details will be kept secret even after 30 years – the period after which all but the most sensitive state documents are released. Any Bank of England employee leaking the names of institutions involved will face court action for breach of […]

  • Four Minutes to Save the World

    I’ve been listening to the Madonna/Justin Timberlake single. The beat is great but the lyrics are absolutely stupid.

  • Send Helen Thomas Flowers

    Helen Thomas nailed Dana Perino to the wall today: THOMAS: The President has said publicly several times, in two consecutive news conferences a few months ago, and you have said over and over again, we do not torture. Now he has admitted that he did sign off on torture, he did know about it. So […]

  • CNN Shirt: CNN video headlines printed on a t-shirt

    CNN t-shirt maker is easily hackable… CNN Shirt: CNN video headlines printed on a t-shirt

  • Waiting for Wake-Up

    It is Sunday. Ron is snoring to my right. Astro is wandering around chasing imaginary mosters. Downy is probably sleeping on top of the backpack I take to the gym. He fits perfectly on it and we think maybe he misses me during the day so he sleeps on top of it until I’m home. […]

  • Jon Stewart to ABC News: Stop Doing My Job

    From Crooks and Liars: The first hour of last night’s debate was a 60 minute master class in questions that elevate out-of-context remarks and trivial, insipid miscues into subjects of natural discourse…which is my job! Stop doing my job! That’s what I’m here for! I’m the silly man!

  • New York Times Blackout on Bush Authorizing Torture

    From The Seminal: It has now been nine days since reporters at ABC News told us of ‘dozens of top-secret talks and meetings” held in the White House by senior Bush Administration officials to discuss in fine detail the interrogation techniques to be used on so-called ‘high value al Qaeda suspects,” and it has been […]

  • Hoax: Yale Artist Uses Induced Miscarriages as Art

    Update: Yup – as expected – this is a hoax. But she says she’s not doing it for shock value: Yale art major Aliza Shvarts has repeatedly inseminated her self and then used abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. She is displaying the results in video and preserved blood. … The display of Schvarts’ project will […]