I went over to the Detroit Free Press site and saw this headline from Shrub’s speech at the UN General Assembly today. The statement that “My country desires peace” I think is definitely true. The problem is that George Bush is so far out in right field and has always made clear that he doesn’t [...]
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Last week Amazon introduced their new movie download service called Amazon Unbox. This is a service that should be avoided at all costs. Amazon has created a service that can’t be used unless you are using windows. If you are using Linux or Mac OS you are in luck because the service doesn’t work with [...] Yesterday Microsoft officially announced their new Zune audio player. This device is intended to compete with the market dominating iPod. They have come up with a 30GB player that is bigger and heavier than a 30GB iPod with a slightly larger screen. It also has a built-in FM radio and can play photos and video’s [...] I’ve written a couple of previous posts about electronic voting machines that you can find here and here. Yesterday Professor Ed Felten of Princeton University along with two of his grad students released a new study that they did on these Diebold Machines. They found that under realistic voting conditions it would be very easy [...] The podcast of the meetings of the Board of Trustees for the Ypsilanti Public School District is now live. You can find it http://ypsischools.podshow.com/. The audio of the meeting is uncut and unedited. I’ll be trying to record all the public meetings of the board and posting on podcast site. Podshow provides free podcast hosting [...] Objects in the mirror may not be what they appear to be. It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words and also that the camera doesn’t lie. Although pictures can be worth many words, they won’t necessarily be the same words to everyone. More importantly a picture can easily be manipulated to [...] … You’re making a good start on understanding. Always question everything, especially your most closely held beliefs. There is an excellent interview with Paul Kurtz (founder and chair of the Center for Inquiry) on this week’s edition of Point of Inquiry. During the interview he talks about free thought and inquiry and emphasizes that people [...] |
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