So I found the title bar!

That rules!

So this is why I love UCSC! There's all of this building art, and just art in general all over campus. You'll just be walking along and see something like this come out of nowhere.

Baby and momma.

Whole picture, see how many symbols you can find!

Ok so an update on the Haiti situation:

Here's an 11pg long NY Times article about the troubles in Haiti. I haven't read all of it, but what I have looked at makes no mention of the mercs we were talking about before. However, it does look like some shady shit has been going on down there that reeks of US involvement. Somehow I'm reminded of Costa Rica and El Salvador in the 80s...

NY Times Article

I recently read, or rather listen to, George Orwell's Animal Farm. What a great book. I've never seen such a funny, thought provoking book which is so short! Allusions to everything from media to working class heroes. If anyone reading this hasn't read this book, you must go out and read it. It is about the rise and fall of socialism, and pertains to many things going on today in our own government.

So I recently discovered addons.mozilla.org

I highly recommend you check out the "extensions" section...specifically fasterfox and customize google. Customize google has some nice features like removing the ads and privacy stuff like removing google analysis. Might be good considering the gov't is hitting the major search engines up for information on people...Yahoo and MSN have complied, but Google has not. I wouldn't count on that lasting forever. Is the freedom the internet has provided in its death rattle?

Ivestigative Blogging?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/19/blogger_merc_spies_i.html

REALLY?

How fuckin cool! So could it be that the internet really has opened up a free-of-govt-regulation media format where issues like this can get some air-time? Doubtful, but here's to hoping! Watch for a new string of blogging lawsuits.

Also in the news: the DC cleanup. Can you believe that they are actually going to pass some lobbying legislation? I mean, we all know that whatever legislation the DO pass will be all show, no go, since it's unlikely they're gonna bite the hands that feed them, but at least the problem is being discussed, instead of just brushed under the dirty ass Washington rug. One thing I read in the paper today was that some Republican from Montana was trying to dump off his Abramoff (the lobbist who started this fiasco) on a Native American tribe in Montana. The tribe was like fuck you we don't want your dirty Washington whore payoff monies, we'd rather be poor. Props Natives, always gotta give them props! Also most Congress people are trying to dump off their dirty money on charities etc.

Ok, anybody ever wonder why the US doesn't have any maglev trains? Well, they may just have some soon...

http://www.calmaglev.org/
http://www.bwmaglev.com/
http://www.maglevpa.com/


Interesting...

Mmmmmm...happy chicken. They look happy don't they? We'll see how they turn out, I'm actually letting them brew as I write.

Browning phase-should've let them brown a bit more, but I was afraid for my onion.

Simmer phase- making the house start to smell yummy.

This is a good article about one of my favorite things in the entire world!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4607642.stm

You gotta be fuckin kidding me. What the fuck?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4605202.stm
And seriously, physics is having major funding problems? Somebody recently told me that the physics funding for the last fifty years has been a consequence of us making the atom bomb, and politicians were hoping that we'd come up with another, newer and better one...then in the late 80s, also coincidentally around the time of the end of the cold war, people started deciding that we want to live forever, and hence all of the funding in biological and health sciences...and what will happen, is that people will realize that they don't want to live forever, or at least not with the current quality of life, and so funding will slowly run out for that...thoughts?