Entries from August 2005

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Monoculture of risk

On Aug 28, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Hughes, James J. wrote: > > In the meantime we have that wonderfully successful, publicly funded, > coercive program “water flouridation” which significantly responsible > for the decline in dental caries. Yes, and asbestos makes a great fire-retardant. And DDT kills mosquitos very effectively. Many risks don't manifest [...]

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Foresight Exchange code open sourced

http://www.ideosphere.com/ PRESS RELEASE: Popular Prediction Market Software Becomes Open Source Code Release Promotes Wider Developer Participation and Commercial Adoption Calgary, Alberta (August 29, 2005) – Responding to the strong interest in prediction market software, Foresight Technologies today announced that it is contributing the complete Idea Futures source code to the Open Source community. Releasing the [...]

Friday, August 26th, 2005

One cannot look directly at either the sun or death. La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

A fascinating paper. Healthcare spending has little measurable effect on health or lifespan. “Gender, exercise and social status, for example, can change lifespans by ten to fifteen years or more (Lantz, House, Lepkowski, Williams, Mero, & Chen, 1998). When one looks at medical spending, however, the usual2 finding in such studies is no effect. When [...]

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Hail to the King

Bruce Campbell came to Raleigh today! He's touting his new book “Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way” and a new movie “Man With The Screaming Brain”. Books were made available for sale at the front of the theater. Buying a book earned you a numbered ticket to the book signing. Bruce signed books for a [...]

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Robert J. Shiller: "Housing prices could fall 40 percent."

August 21, 2005 Be Warned: Mr. Bubble's Worried Again By DAVID LEONHARDT ABBY JOSEPH COHEN, the Goldman Sachs strategist then making a name for herself as Wall Street's optimist in chief, sat directly to Alan Greenspan's right. One chair away was Robert J. Shiller, a largely unknown Yale economist. As they ate lunch in a [...]

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

RALEIGH: Bruce Campbell to sign books, show movie, August 22nd

Raleigh, NC Monday, August 22, 2005 N.C. State Univ Bookstore & Mission Valley Cinema Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way signing at 5:00pm Man with the Screaming Brain screenings at 9:30pm & 11:30pm All Events at Mission Valley Cinema, 2109-124 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh, NC 27606 http://www.bruce-campbell.com/appearances/index.htm#0822

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Elvis, the Robo-Kitty

Elvis the Cat lost the use of his hind legs in a tragic auto accident. So his owner, Carlo Bertocchinni, built him a mobile robotic platform. Now Elvis the Cat is Elvis, The Robo-Kitty (Quicktime).

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Demi Moore gives hope to dorky kids everywhere…

Demi Moore, age 8(?): Click the link to see more celebrity kid photos.

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Your Mama

Kennedy's Your Mama (Quicktime) is catchy, if creepy.

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Floating Russian Nuclear Reactors

I had no idea floating reactors were this far along: Russia plans to export floating nuclear power plants to the third world.