This is an even more interesting question: what do cats do when they’re home alone? Spoiler — it isn’t sleeping.
When the technology evolves to allow video, we’ll learn a lot more about the home life of cats. And humans. The age of privacy may be coming to a close.
Or is there a lot of spam and ads citing The One? For example, “Obama wants you to get a lower mortgage.” “Obama wants you to have a better sex life.”
Of course, I guess it makes sense. If you’re dumb enough to fall for spam in general, you’re the target market for Obama spam.
It’s a gas, man:
Just a few years ago, the industry didn’t have the technology to unlock these reserves. But thanks to advances in horizontal drilling and methods of fracturing rock with high-pressure blasts of water, sand and chemicals, vast gas reserves in the United States are suddenly within reach.
As a result, said BP chief executive Tony Hayward, “the picture has changed dramatically.”
“The United States is sitting on over 100 years of gas supply at the current rates of consumption,” he said. Because natural gas emits half the greenhouse gases of coal, he added, that “provides the United States with a unique opportunity to address concerns about energy security and climate change.”
Recoverable U.S. gas reserves could now be bigger than the immense gas reserves of Russia, some experts say.
But it doesn’t require us to tighten our hair shirts, so it’s off the table.
Whoever found this post, based on this search probably didn’t find what he was looking for. (Second link mildly NSFW…)
[Update a while later]
I don’t know whether to be encouraged or appalled that I’m Google’s number six for that search.
…of the virtual newsroom:
Here you have two young conservative journalists, O’Keefe and Giles, possessed of a keen philosophical eye, a knowledge of technology (cameras, microphones videotape, the Internet) and a fat and inviting liberal fish in a barrel known as ACORN. Imagination conjured as to how they will approach their story — they go out and conduct their very-old style journalism investigation. Story in hand, Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart.tv in the Internet division takes the handoff. He sends a virtual memo to talk radio row’s Beck and Hannity. Who in turn are both Fox News stars. Five…four…three…two…one. Bang! Within a virtual instant, the Virtual Newsroom has just blown in the hull of the good ship ACORN, its stunned survivors racing around the deck of a political Titanic as Breitbart, O’Keefe and Giles are powered by the engines of the Virtual Newsroom. The full power of the Virtual Newsroom kicks in. Talk radio shows light up the call screeners screens. The newspaper and magazines kick in, in print and online. The lights are on in the Fox studios as the surging Fox audience gapes at a federally funded organization strategizing on prostitution. And…lights out for ACORN. Or more accurately, considerably damaged and suddenly congressionally unfunded. And the coverage from what’s left of the liberal mainstream media in all this? Next to zero.
… The problem for American progressives today — be they the activists of ACORN, Van Jones, the So We Might See group or others — is that they are unaccustomed to finding themselves on the receiving end of this kind of attention from the journalists, commentators, investigators, talk radio hosts, television stars and authors of the Virtual Newsroom. It is safe to say that whatever else went on in the three stories listed here, the scoundrels at ACORN, Mr. Jones, and the So We Might See-ers were taken aback at the fact they — they! — were suddenly under the Virtual Newsroom microscope for their public activities. Accustomed to velvet-gloved treatment from their progressive buddies in the Old Media, they simply never factored the existence of the Virtual Newsroom into the equation.
Newsflash to progressives. The Virtual News room is here to stay. Not only is it not going away — in spite of whatever shenanigans may be going on behind the closed doors of the FCC — it is gaining in both size and strength.
It may be saving us from the “progressive” drumbeat that has come from the media for decades. You can see why the administration wants to tighten control.
From Lileks:
If they made Frankenstein movies nowadays, the sequels would be odd: the Monster could not go on a rampage until he’d downloaded the latest firmware. “Improves compatibility with villagers, resolves conflicts with fire.”
Seems like he came with malware preinstalled. At least in the Mel Brooks version. “Abby Normal. I’m almost sure that was the name.“
Did AMD finally lose? As noted, if Intel has no competition, it will have to invent it. I’ve been loyal to AMD for many years, to nurture it. I hope that it can survive, or someone else take up the cause.
…make better Star Trek? John Scalzi thinks not.
Brian Swiderski has a roundup of videos and pictures of a lot of space hardware under development by private space.
I have a dream that when I type into a text box in Firefox, the characters won’t stop appearing on the screen while I’m typing, and then magically appear a few seconds later. I have a dream that when I move the mouse pointer to a different place and left click, it will actually move the cursor there when I do so, and not half a minute later. I have a dream that when I scroll down, the screen will actually move in real time, and not just the mouse pointer, and that it won’t then jump down tens of seconds later. I have a dream that when I click on a different tab, it will actually change to that tab, and not just sit there on the same window for thousands of milliseconds.
I’ve heard of Firefox problems in Linux, but the problems that I’ve heard seem to do with loading web pages, not the basic mechanics of using the program. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?
[Update a few minutes later]
My system monitor is telling me that Firefox is using about half the CPU. Is there any way to figure out exactly which tab, if any, is causing the problem?