"interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production" - http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008...
There has to be some sort of birthday paradox around graphs. Given a large enough library of graphs, you will find a strong correlation between two.
- Joe Beda
Mean global temperature correlates quite well with the decline in the pirate population, after all. Actually, we can test causality now -- will the rise of Somali and Asian pirates bring the temperature back down? Or are the required to wear 17th century pirate regalia?
- Joel Webber
This also confirms my conjecture that there have been no new good artists since 1975.
- Gabe
This is why we must start drilling in Alaska.
- τorƍue
Will drilling in Alaska improve rock music?
- Gary Burd
Speaking of birthdays, I think a histogram of the birthdays of music critics would probably look a whole lot like the red graph... shifted 13-18 years or so.
- Ken Sheppardson
'Songs in "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of all Time,"' huh? That's some ground truth for ya.
- j1m
I'd like to see the graph for Pitchfork, but the lists are segmented by decade.
- Gary Burd
@Ken - "predicting oil production by music critic's birthdays". Who'd have thought we could solve the whole running-out-of-oil thing by getting Rolling Stone to hire 16 year olds!!!
- Nick Lothian
Ken: I think you might find more correllation with a histogram of drug use than age of critics.
- Gabe
@Gurme media player mi? böğğğ :) abi classic winamp 'tan şaşmam:))
- "Fikret" the Çevir-Man
asıl winamp'a öğğ :D media player kadar berrak sesi yok winamp'ın.bütün oynatıcıları denedim,ı ıh media en kralı :) tabi pc'ye 5+1 surround takılı olmasının da faydası var.ama diğer oynatıcıları da bunda denedim sonuçta :)
- Sonradan Gurme
daha bugüne kadar media player 'de ne film izledim ne müzik dinledim. O kadar itici ki :))
- "Fikret" the Çevir-Man
film için ben de kullanmam yaf,GOM'un üstüne yoktur film için.eskiden BS kullanırdım,GOM daha iyi.
- Sonradan Gurme
"The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine today to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people and left pharmacies without masks or flu remedies."
- macroron
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"Here in the US, excitement has been high over Verizon's first Android handset, the Motorola Droid; so high, in fact, that it has actually begun to make an appreciable dent in iPhone favoritism. This is partially due to the fact that a large number of iPhone users were Verizon customers before they got the iPhone, and still consider Verizon's wireless network to be superior to AT&T's. Verizon's "There's a map for that" advertising campaign has also added to the company's reputation for having a more robust network than AT&T."
- LANjackal
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How about Canada? I cannot wait for more new Android devices. We're getting the Hero on the 5th of November, but other then the HTC G1 and HTC MyTouch, we have crap. Agh!
- Zachary TG
Tease: This Week on This Week In Tech, Natali del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis talks about SOX, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet. TWiT is next!
- Leo Laporte
"There are currently two major Wave infrastructures in place, both operated by Google." There are at least three if you include Google's internal corporate instance. Check Adam's comment here: "No worries, Daniel! With 3 instances of Wave now (corp, dev, preview)" http://friendfeed.com/kfury...
- Tony Ruscoe
"Aldus Huxley gave a speech entitled: The Ultimate Revolution on March 20, 1962 at the Berkeley Language Center. There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution. Aldous Huxley-Obama is part of a scientific dictatorship being set up that Huxley talked about."
- macroron
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"What does the state of Arkansas, China, the CIA, the Rockefellers, Wal-Mart, Tyson Chicken, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the trade in human body parts, the manipulation of the stock market and the commodities market have in common?"
- macroron
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"If you thought that Sam Walton, Don Tyson and J B Hunt were poor farm boys who embodied the American rags-to-riches dream, Sherman Skolnick says you are believing a myth and a fable."
- macroron
Glenn Beck is CIA. Used as major media disinformation agent and "truther" movement defuser, He also spreads talking points to the opposition. It pays to listen once in a while to understand the lingo!
- macroron
"Next Thursday marks the first anniversary of one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the House of Commons. For six hours MPs debated what was far and away the most expensive piece of legislation ever put before Parliament. The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over 80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialised economy, changing our way of life out of recognition."
- macroron
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"Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15. Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4. Although her talk was intended to promote the vaccine, participants said they came away convinced the vaccine should not be received."
- macroron
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This is not the first time Dr. Harper revealed the fact that Merck never tested Gardasil for safety in young girls. During a 2007 interview with KPC News.com, she said giving the vaccine to girls as young as 11 years-old “is a great big public health experiment.” At the time, which was at the height of Merck’s controversial drive to have the vaccine mandated in schools, Dr. Harper...
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- Adrian
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency. President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body. A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet. A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery. The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists...
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- macroron
"In a recent interview Soros spills the beans, talks about the new world order and describes the current and future managed and well plot out destruction of the american dollar, all though he warns it might spin out of control."
- macroron
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This sounds like a plea for China to stop the financial war against the United States of Goldman, stop the gold hoarding and join the empire.
- Adrian
"Massive media campaign is being launched to 'seduce' people into voluntarily receiving the H1N1 shot at mass vaccination sites which intend to vaccinate 75000 people per day, with a goal of giving 75% of the population the shot. We are to receive cards in the mail telling us when, according to our age and health status, it is our turn to present ourselves at these mass vax sites to receive our shots. The Canadaian vaccine, manufactured by GSK, is Pandemrix,which contains the dangerous adjuvant, squalene, as well as thimerosal (mercury). The media is outright lying to the public about the presence of these ingredients and the dangers posed by them. In July of this year, the Quebec government passed a law allowing themto forcibly vaccinate people under a 'public health emergency'. While the vaccine is voluntary at this time,it remains to be seen whether these powers will eventually be enacted against the refusers."
- macroron
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"Asda customers can book their winter flu jab from today in one of our in-store pharmacies – for the bargain price of £8. Trained nurses will be giving the flu vaccination at all 169 in-store pharmacies across England and Wales on 10th, 17th, 24th and 30th October. We’re holding four times as many sessions as last year to cope with the expected increase in demand this year. Other retailers are charging more for the vaccine – Boots charge £12.99 and Tesco and Morrisons £10."
- macroron
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"1972 WHO Bulletin 47, No 2 Memordanda #1 and #2 Virus-associated immunopathology: Animal models and implications for human disease * technically outline the ability to create biological weapons in the form of vaccines that: 1) First totally disable the Immune System. 2) Load every cell of the Victim’s body up with Infection. 3) Switch the Immune System on causing the host to kill themselves in a Cytokine Storm. One, Two, Three, Dead."
- macroron
Conceptually a good idea -- not sure about how it work in practice. Selling one off doesn't seem to be reasonable since by nature anything in wave needs multiple participants. I guess it is possible that only one party in the wave would need the application. Giving an app away and somehow charging for services afterward? Maybe a set of cooperating apps where you sell one and give the others away? The selling scenarios would be much more complex than with the iPhone
- Brian Sullivan
I'm wondering how they can protect html/javascript-based apps from piracy.
- Derek van Vliet
Yeah, exactly brian. Perhaps only user who have purchased the app can interact with it in the wave. Everyone else just sees the feedback....
- Roberto Bonini
Apps aren't all html/javascript based though are they -- isn't a service potentially involved?
- Brian Sullivan
Certainly your apps can make use of services.
- Derek van Vliet
Patients could lose access to safe herbal medicines under EU rules, it was claimed yesterday. Instead they could end up buying potentially dangerous supplies from the black market, say herbalists. Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of products for 'mild' illness, will be banned to the public under the new law to come in in 2011.'
- macroron
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"Al Gore starts his odyssey on global warming with the Keeling Curve - the chart of steadily increasing CO2 levels measured off the top of Mauna Loa. Very compelling and the cornerstone of the case for anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW). Early this year, however, the annual rate of increase was the lowest measured, and on a monthly basis seemed to be coming to a dead stop - which means after seasonal adjustments would show a down trend. Now it appears there is a down trend in the CO2 levels. See chart. If this continues it spells the coup de grace for the goofy AGW case."
- macroron
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Big Al IS global warming ! Just take him out and the planet will cool.
- Adrian