Nasty Spiral

This is worrying.

If outsourcing to india was the tech industry circling the bowl, I think the fact that students are shunning computer studies means it's about to be flushed.

Way to go, corporate America. Nice job of looking at the big picture.

[via Fuck That Job!]

Pledgers Get STDs

"U.S. adolescents who pledge not to have sex until they are married have about the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as other teenagers and they often fail to keep their pledge, according to a study... The study, funded largely by the National Institutes of Health, found that these teenagers were also less likely to use condoms when they did have sex because they had not paid attention to sex education. Because of their ignorance about sexually transmitted diseases, 'pledgers' were also less likely to seek medical help if they contracted one of the diseases... The study found that pledging did succeed in delaying sex, reducing the number of partners and led to earlier marriages but it did not reduce the rate of sexually transmitted diseases." — Yahoo.com (US)] (read more)

[via PervScan]

Tune in Tomorrow!

UPDATE: Listen Today : we are playing Off the Hook and the Hour of Slack.  Leave your comments on this story to let us know if you want us to keep it or dump it!

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Hey guys... just a reminder... tune in to my radio show tomorrow  from 2pm-4pm EST... I'm auditioning a couple other talk shows I'm wanting to bring to schedule. 

I welcome comments here on the shows ... if they are to your liking comment on them! 

/rizzn

Nano-engineered intelligent flagellum?

 

Here's a comment from "Intelligent Design" advocate William A. Dembski in Christianity Today that would boil the corpuscles off of any red-blooded Darwinian nanoscientist:

"Now, with intelligent design, you can look at certain biological structures. We're arguing that they are intelligently caused. The most popular one that's been investigated is the bacterial flagellum. It's a little bi-directional motor-driven propeller on the backs of certain bacteria, marvel of nano-engineering, and so we've started to analyze systems like that and argue for their intelligent design." More here

[via Howard Lovy's NanoBot]

How Blogs Work

How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces is a great little piece that explains in easily understood language the steps of blogging and RSS. It even has pictures!...

 

[via LivingRoom >> A space for Life]

Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting

Lulu_of_the_Lotus-Ea writes "The Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is holding a demonstration of its Free Software voting system in Santa Clara, California on April 1, 2004 (yeah, I know the date, but it's not a joke). An announcement on the OVC homepage has further details. The Sourceforge hosted EVM2003 project of the OVC has produced touchscreen and vision-impared interface voting systems that produce visually inspectable (or machine-aided audio verification) paper ballots. As well, OVC will demonstrate systems for reconcilliation and reporting of precint results, and provide handouts and a presentation explaining the virtues of a publicly inspectible system with a tamper-proof paper trail."

Note:

It would be great if this works, given that electronic voting has encountered so many problems before."

[via LawMeme]

InfoCom AIM Bots

InfoCom's games (like Zork) were some of the first conversational interface games. Now that they're in public domain, they've been made them into AIM bots. Isn't this just full circle? It reminds me that I always used to install (harmless)... (read more) 

[via Lair of the Toadking]