The New York Times has just published, as their editorial, a list of things that need to be done to “reverse the unwise and lawless policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.”
Autumn Cleaning
Today’s horoscope from Astrology.com is strangely relevant:
It’s time to do some downsizing when it comes to your personal and professional life. Take control and strip away the non-essentials. How can you start fresh if your mental and physical space is cluttered with the past?
Supposedly an eclipse, like the lunar eclipse we had yesterday, are times of radical change. And I do feel like a “fresh start” this morning. Odd. Maybe it’s just the gentle rain — which I always love.
Speech recognition has a long way to go
Just see what happens when a programmer tries to use Windows Vista’s speech recognition to write a simple script in the Perl programming language.
Now imagine: “Computer, intercept the photon torpedo.”
“The Death of Decency”
All I know about the movie Bobby is that it’s set in the USA at the time of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination. But I just heard writer-director Emilio Estevez say the most amazing things to Margaret Pomeranz.
How to destroy the Earth
It’s harder than you think. A shame, that. It’s Tuesday and I’m in the mood…
How to conduct a political poll
With the NSW election campaign well under way and a federal poll soon, I’m glad I stumbled across this classic explanation of how to get the answer you want from an opinion poll, courtesy of Yes, Prime Minister.