A conference is underway in Ghana looking at Africa’s water management problems. This follows a United Nations report that highlights the intense problems faced by those in the developing world in obtaining adequate water supplies. The report, No Water No Future, notes that today an estimated one billion people lack sufficient access to safe drinking…
April, 2002
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It is not surprising that New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden pans “The Scorpion King” in today’s paper, but what really impressed me was his rather vicious description of the onscreen performance by The Rock, The Rock may be the first movie action hero made of flesh and blood who appears more digital than human.…
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A small plane crashed into the tallest building in Milan, Italy, today, creating a huge hole and setting part of the building on fire for awhile. Apparently the fire has been put out, and all indications so far are that it was an accident rather than an act of terrorism. Source: Plane hits Milan skyscraper
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Sometimes I cannot believe how utterly stupid people can be when dealing with matters of life and death. I’m probably to the right of Charlton Heston on the right to keep and bear arms, it never ceases to amazes me just how cavalierly some people treat guns. A front page story in my local newspaper…
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This is another one of those child abuse cases that is almost too sickening to read. These people should never be allowed to rejoin any civilized society.
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BlogRolling.Com “provides a free, easy to use service to manage your buddy lists on your blog that works with every major blog tool and website.” The idea is apparently that people using some blogging tools have to go in and manually edit their templates to add or delete sites that they link to on sidebars.…
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Doing a little ego surfing I searched Google for “Brian Carnell.” Of course even though there are quite a few other Brian Carnell’s, I’ve got the category locked up. What surprised me, though, was the AdWord ad to the right of the results.
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The National Center for Policy Analysis notes that the House is supposed to vote this week on a tax bill that, among other things, includes a clause to permanently eliminate estate taxes. One of the most absurd outcomes of the estate tax is that the Sept. 11 attacks suddenly made families of some of the…
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For the last 20 year or so the legal and financial position of vaccine manufacturers has steadily declined. Now, outside observers are wondering why the nation is experiencing a major shortage of vaccines. Duh. Vaccines have a number of strikes against them already. The research on them is expensive enough, but the manufacturing costs for…
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Wow. The Supreme Court today announced that in a 6-3 vote it overturned a ban on virtual child pornography. The 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act banned not only digitally altered images of real children (a ban which the Supreme Court upheld), but also forbid the creation of “virtual” child pornography in which no actual child…