02 Nov 06 Net Crap (11/3)

• Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
  “Nature’s automatic manipulator during sleep is the kickback against the vertebrae by the ribs when the chest is prevented from movement by the forest floor. Various resting postures correct different joints. Pillows are not necessary.”
  (tags: history science reference food4thought)
• Normalised Google Distance: “[T]he strength of a relationship between two words [...] “speakers” and “sound” are more related than “speakers” and “elephant” [...] they find the Google PageCount when both words are used together [...]“
  ” [...] when you repeat this process [...] you can build a multi-connection word map [...] “It could well be the way to make a computer understand things and act semi-intelligently.”
  (tags: interesting google goodideas geekery cool)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble telescope will get upgrade
  “The servicing mission should extend Hubble’s orbital lifetime to at least 2013, by which time Nasa will be getting close to launching a successor: the James Webb Space Telescope.” YAY!
  (tags: space science cool)
• Charlie’s Diary: “What do the public really think of literature? Here are some examples, in the form of reviews culled from the reader comments on Amazon.com.”
  (tags: funny)
• “A four-month investigation of Bush-appointed judges by the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that six appellate court judges and 18 district court judges contributed a total of more than $44,000 to politicians who were influential in their appoi
  “Some gave money directly to Bush after he officially nominated them. Other judges contributed to Republican campaign committees while they were under consideration for a judgeship.”
  (tags: holy_shit dumbfuck neocon fascist horrifying)
• Wired 14.11: The Outsider
  “By bucking the conventions of CGI and using an ingenious application of microphotography to simulate space, Aronofsky has given the scenes in the nebula a handwrought quality that evokes the luminous etchings of William Blake.”
  (tags: amazing movies science geekery scifi cool)
• “It seems that since she decided to run for re-election, Colorado GOP Representative Marilyn Musgrave (who is running against Democrat Angie Paccione) not only shed quite a few pounds, but her head actually grew skinnier and taller.”"
  (tags: politics funny)
• How to Get Thunderbird Working with the Mac OS X Address Book
  (tags: useful thunderbird reference)
• “[W]ith over 6 billion people on earth, a million to one shot will occur frequently. Say the odds are a million to one that when a person has a dream of an airplane crash, there is an airplane crash the next day.”
  “With 6 billion people having an average of 250 dream themes each per night, there should be about 1.5 million people a day who have dreams that seem clairvoyant.”
  (tags: interesting food4thought reference)
• Sen. George “Macaca” Allen Has Staffers Tackle an Ex-Marine Asking Uncomfortable Questions at Rally
  (tags: government dumbass neocon holy_shit fascist whaddafuck)
• Evidently the University of Utah will never, ever, ever delete your information from their computers — even if they got it from a “I’m interested” college fair card seven years ago. They’ll then use it to send you parking tickets for cars you don’t own.
  (tags: funny dumbass corporatism)
• Look at the Republicans’ 1994 “Contract with America.” Boy, did they screw us up on that one …
  (tags: politics dumbass neocon)
• Wikipedia: Russian reversal
  Evidently, the “in Russia, television watches YOU!” meme has an actual formal name.
  (tags: reference weird funny)