Soraya Chemaly: A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You
Fear lives in the shadows of our hearts. It’s easy to exist there, close to the ground, so you don’t have far …
Read more...Moving Day Down Time
There were a few hours of downtime between 11:00pm MDT on Sunday May 20, 2012 and around 3:00am MDT on Monday May …
Read more...How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth? (Reason.com)
“NASA’s irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.” Sadly, it’s a direct result of our PR-obsessed, risk-averse …
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TV’s Unresolved Sexual Tension – 3 Resolutions
The moment you talk about Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST) between television characters, two things happen: 1) The audience (and maybe the actors) will split as to whether or not the pair should become a couple; and 2) Someone will bring up Moonlighting…more than once. The 2012 season gives us three examples of how to deal with UTS…or how not to deal with UTS.
Read more...Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High
We do a lot of thing wrong in America compared to other countries. Treating our kids like automatons or pieces on a …
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 46 – Kindle Testing
The Kindle has finally gotten to the point where I can seriously consider porting scripts to it. I’m still in the testing phase, but I think it looks promising. TCW scripts make for some convenient test cases.
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New Art – “We Fear No Elephants”
Over on the art site I posted a new scratchboard work. You should take a look.
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s First and Last Landings
OV-103. The space shuttle Discovery. Twenty-seven years of service. Thirty-nine times it lifted off and thirty-nine times it landed safely. All told it spend a year in space and traveled over 238 million km (148 million miles). That sort of use leaves its mark after a while.
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A Vegemite Virgin No More!
Vegemite. The very word sparks terror in Americans. I’ve long been intrigued by the mystique. Today, I got my hands on a 220 g jar of this dark brown, yeast extract goo. At last I could confirm for myself the taste mysteries of Vegemite.
Read more...We’ll know that we’ve created artificial intelligence the moment we realize that we’ve also created artificial stupidity. That revelation might be delayed a bit, however, as natural stupidity is so pervasive and we seem to lack adequate filters.
CJ Carter
Protect Our Helium
We are running out of helium. That light gas that floats kids balloons and raises the pitch of voices to heights of great hilarity is a limited natural resource on Earth. While it’s difficult to be certain, estimates has the US running out of helium by as soon as 2025 … just thirteen years from now, the worldwide supply a couple decades after that. We need to do something, quickly.
Read more...Hollywood Loves a Sequel — But Really, SOPA 2? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Can we just ban the MPAA already? It’s not really doing much of anything that’s particularly useful. Hollywood Loves a Sequel — …
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Thanks “In Plain Sight”, We’ll Miss Ya
The tv show In Plain Sight finished shooting its last episode today. While there are still more episodes to air, I reluctantly say good-bye to the series which I’ve watched since ep1.
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The Women’s Basketball Refereeing Problem
In the National Semi-finals of the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, I don’t think anyone was particularly happy about the refereeing. No one will say so explicitly lest they be sanctioned by the NCAA (fines for participants, access for press) but the whistle-holders were conspicuous in their inconsistency. There needs to be some reform.
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Happy 15th Anniversary to CJCS.COM
On April 2, 1997, I was issued the cjcs.com domain. It was in the neighborhood of the millionth domain, depending on how you choose to reckon these things; more than likely it was a smidge over that. In the fifteen years that have followed, this little domain has seen a lot of data get posted and read. It seems a good time to reminisce about it a little.
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Humpty Dumpty – A Good Egg?
Just about every book of nursery rhymes with the Humpty Dumpty poem shows an anthropomorphic egg sitting on an imposing partition before ending up as a shattered shell and soon-to-be-omelet at the foot of the wall. Lies!
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Anti-sciencers Should Stop Stealing Science
One of the things that really irks me is unabashed hypocrisy. Take, for example, the recent report that a growing number of conservatives are increasingly distrustful of science. Fine. Distrust science; you can believe what you will. All I ask is that you stand by your convictions and stop using this science that you find so onerous.
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Congressman Tells NASA Rocket Science Is Simple
Some people in congress don’t seem to understand that rocket science is…well…rocket science. It’s not easy. It can be made to look that way, but it really, really isn’t.
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