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One of my co-workers told me today that her grandson was going a little devil this Halloween, but that the costume was called “Lil Spitfire” as to not to offend people. WOW….are we really to a point in society where even the term Devil is politically incorrect. Maybe next year the costume should be called Lil Firechild of The Inner Earth.
Adding to my mental torpor today I have found out that Hayseed Dixie covered Ace of Spades by Motorhead…WOW!!
We are still alive over here at Team Swap / Swap Blog. Hope to get back to regular blogging in the next week or so. LOTS of off site stuff keeping us busy, but hope to get some of it cleared up soon.
It turns out that Lance Armstrong is now going to ride the 2009 Giro. AP story here
Fantastic Contraption is the coolest physics learning site I have seen in a LONG time. Share this with everyone from 10 to 110.
It seems that this is the 50th anniversary of the Smoot - a unit of measure that is 67 inches long (why 67 inches well read the story at msnbc.com here). Happy Anniversary Smoot from someone that is 1.0820896 smoots.
James Raia writting for Examiner.com has a story up about the two latest cyclist to test positive for doping during the 2008 Tour De France (TDF). This time it was Leonardo Piepoli and Stefan Schumacher, and the doping count for 2008 is now at six (6). It seems CERA was used by both. Honestly Piepoli was not a surprise to me - considering his position with Saunier Duval / Richardo Rico, but Schumacher surprised me as his efforts looked to be human. Full story here
ARStechnia has a interesting post up about how China is monitoring the skype text traffic and flagging some that discuss more “sensitive” issues for complete logging and monitoring. The data, including some security information, was on public servers. Within the data was usernames, land line numbers, passwords, etc. Story here
No real surprise here regarding the monitoring, since China is a communist nation run by a authoritarian regime, but Skype’s (which is owned by Ebay) working with them is what is disturbing to me. At some point you have to put basic human rights against profits.
