Reuters:
Egypt to test fetuses for Tutankhamun family tree. Bad title; add “mummified”, guys. Otherwise, it looks like Egypt’s going all wiggy with unborn children.
Important Shock:
Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax.
Bloomberg:
Bank Failures Have Customers Wondering About FDIC Protection. Basically, if you as an individual have more than $100k at any one bank, split it to two banks or more. FDIC only guarantees $100k. Assuming, of course, the number of bank failures won’t empty out the FDIC ...
REVOLVEClothing:
The Guardian
seems to have it in for France this morning. Gloomy autumn on way for French writing. Carla Bruni’s photoshoot in the Elysée is symbolic of the new regime’s contempt for democracy.
Wall Street Journal:
Polaroid’s not completely dead. Big Artists, Big Camera: Not a Typical Polaroid. “When, back in February, Petters Group Worldwide, current owner of Polaroid Corp., announced that it would stop producing instant photography film, the company left the door open for any interested party to acquire the technology needed to manufacture the film for whatever customers remained. As a result, investor and philanthropist Daniel H. Stern and long-time Polaroid artist John Reuter now have ‘an agreement in principle’ to produce the chemicals and related products essential for making Polaroid images. But don’t expect to buy film for your old SX 70 or Swinger. Their company, 20X24 Holdings LLC, will support only the Polaroid 20x24 ...”
NY Times Opinion:
Time for Iraq to Pay the Bill. “In truth, Iraqis have had little incentive to spend their own money given the willingness of the United States Congress to keep writing blank checks for President Bush’s disastrous adventure there.”
NY Times Art & Design:
Bernini, the Man of Many Heads. A recent PBS special discussed Bernini. They claimed the bust of Costanza reflected passion; in most lights, I think she simply looks terrified. And rightly so, if you trace her history with Bernini.
NY Times Science:
Date Set for Operation of Large Hadron Collider. Rub your talisman, if you’re so inclined.
SF New Mexican:
Corn syrup leaving bad taste in some mouths. I bought a bag of supposedly-natural dried cherries the other day. Second ingredient, after cherries, was high fructose corn syrup! In dried fruit. I had a handful, and found I couldn’t sit still for an hour. Threw the rest of ‘em away. I’m finding I have to read ingredients every time I go to the store ... even ‘reliable’ brands start getting cheap.
CNN:
106 mpg ‘air car’ creates buzz, questions. Hmmm. Ever see a scuba tank explode? And they’re talking about much higher pressures. For all the whiz-bang coolness, it’s an image I can’t get out of my head.
Eduardo.
The remnants of the hurricane came through, beginning about mid-afternoon yesterday. We’re still under low sheet clouds. The rains tapered off late last night. Heavy at times, but mostly a very fine consistent rain, more East Coast style, than our dramatic alpha-and-omega style Western thunderstorms. Comcast seemed to have been knocked out last evening for a few hours, just after the heaviest rains. The garden’s happy ... I don’t have to water it, so I’m happy too.
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EarthFirst:
The Impossible Task of Cutting Plastic Out of Your Life. Be sure not to miss, in the sidebar, the dude trying to hit a golf ball from the top of a mountain. Priceless.
Huffington Post:
Leaked McCain Memo: Paint Obama As A “Job Killing Machine”. We’re already hearing some of this rhetoric on the airwaves here in the west. Our economy out here was buzzing along, until 2000. Been an uphill climb since.
Using
Eduardo’s here.
Big dark clouds forming overhead. Looks like it’s raining over in west/southwest Santa Fe.
The media seems more interested in tire gauges too,
but Mr Obama calls it right ... ”pride in ignorance.”
Later: Time, The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke. “The real problem with the attacks on his tire-gauge plan is that efforts to improve conservation and efficiency happen to be the best approaches to dealing with the energy crisis — the cheapest, cleanest, quickest and easiest ways to ease our addiction to oil, reduce our pain at the pump and address global warming.”
The New York Observer:
The Little Bookstore That Could, and Will: McNally Robinson—soon to be McNally Jackson—has great books, intelligent staff and turns a profit. What is Sarah McNally doing right? “So take the business section and instead of having it sprawling over an entire wall, a total mess and you don’t know what’s good and what’s bad, actually focus on the books that people want and have wanted for years, and focus on the books that are new that are actually good.”
LA Times:
Violent films viewed by millions of children, study finds. “It’s quite striking that 10-year-olds are watching these movies ... [sip] ... Ten years old isn’t that far away from believing in Santa Claus.” Hell of a way to grow up, in such a compressed timeframe.
NY Times Op-Ed Columnist:
Collins, The Energy Drill. “Through constant repetition, he’s trying to fool the public into believing their gas prices will come down in the foreseeable future if more coastal areas are opened to drilling. And nobody really believes that, including John McCain. Bad candidate.”
NY Times Editorial:
Guilty as Ordered. “Stain”, at the least.
NY Times Science:
Why Not Test the Phaistos Disc? Like the Shroud of Turin, eventually tests will be done. Just a matter of time.
SF New Mexican:
Old St. Vincent Hospital: Preserving the ‘historic fabric’. I just walked by and read the big yellow ‘public notice’ sign the other day. Repairs should be starting soon.
CNN Politics:
Gingrich challenges Democrats on oil drilling. Crawl back under your rock, oh amphibious one. Your previous shutdowns didn’t give us a balanced budget, this stagecraft won’t give us cheap oil. We know better, and we know who caused the current situation. You Republicans think you’ve got traction, when all you’re really doing is fingernail-scrabbling for relevance.
