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Book Review: 'The Woman Who Can't Forget'

Story about a woman who couldn't forget and the nightmare that it really is.

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Tolerance fails t-shirt test

First, let me say that I love this little girl.  What a great experiment.  I just wish that I had thought about it.

A middleschool student in Oak Park, IL decided to do an experiment.  She wore a "McCain Girl" t-shirt one day and an "Obama Girl" shirt the next.  She wrote down all of the comments that she recieved on each day.  

The results were what you'd expect from middleschoolers (older folks are more likely to screw you behind the scenes).  She was treated with contempt for wearing the McCain shirt and praised for the Obama shirt.

She did this with the approval of the history teacher who used it as part of a lesson after the results were in.  From my point of view, it's a great experiment and a great beginning to her research career (though she luckily didn't have to go through human subjects approval).

Flash 10 broke me

Looks like the newest Flash 10 (10,0,12,36 to be precise) broke the last.FM widget embedded at the top of the page. Hopefully, it will eventually be fixed by either last.FM or Adobe (won't hold my breath). I'll just leave it up for now.

However, this is what happens when you rely so much on propriety software. You are at their mercy. It only gets fixed when they say it gets fixed. Wouldn't it be nice if an open source option came into vogue?

Don't write in and tell me how many great options there are. The reality is that Flash is on nearly every computer (at least those running Windows and Mac OS, but likely Linux too). Until there is something that can challenge this dominance, few are going to develop for it.

However, I shouldn't let last.FM off the hook too easily. So far, they are the only system broken as far as I can tell.

So, until then, I sit back and what for the king to decide what to do with me. Shall I be spared or OFF with my head!

Man admits killing teacher over 21-year grudge - CNN.com

Man admits killing teacher over 21-year grudge - CNN.com

Uhm, scary?! Is this a warning not to beat your students or simply to get out of Korea before they can do damage to you? A little of both, I guess.

A guy kills his teacher who beat him 21 years earlier for cheating on a test. Let's just hope there aren't many copycats out there.

Breakdown Prohibition

Cheer Up
Originally uploaded by nahkahousu

I really thought that this should say 구토 금지 (pardon the Google translation for "vomit prohibition").

Great picture though :)

YouTube - Sarah Palin Got Pranked

YouTube - Sarah Palin Got Pranked

Can you say, FUNNY! In all her folksy goodness, Palin talks to who she thinks is the French President. However, I'm glad that these guys didn't go too overboard. Now it just seems like a pile-on.

YouTube - Electing a US President in Plain English

YouTube - Electing a US President in Plain English