It's been that kind of day.
This one's for you, Pegritz.
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View from a crappy hotel room.
Taken during the rainstorm last Sunday night.
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On the road again, and this time after not a bit of adventure.
I'm in the field again on assignment, this time well south of the Mason-Dixon line. Far enough south, in fact, that people actually have accents, and truck stops are the primary means of acquiring what one needs to live, such as food, fuel, and automobile parts. It seems that my cow-orker and I didn't get the luck of the draw when it came to the hotel this time. We're staying in hotel that specializes in hosting conventions and conferences near the beach, but doesn't specialize in actually putting people up for the night. On the whole, it's not such a …
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More content related updates.
You know, I really should be writing real content for my website right about now. Until then, here's the latest revision of my .plan file (run! hide!), and my photographs from the William Gibson book signing on 18 August 2007 at the Border's at Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia.
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Until I have time to actually finish writing entries, here are photographs for you.
A tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
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"It's dead, Jim."
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"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
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US Army worries more about bloggers than leaks back home.
Since almost the beginning of Iraq II, the US military has been concerned about bloggers leaking information about upcoming operations and situations in the field that hadn't been cleaned up yet. Lately, they've been commanding troops to police their weblogs and clear all posts through a superior officer before actually posting in the hopes of minimizing the amount of sensitive information that gets out, which makes sense when you think about it. Remember what Geraldo Rivera did back in 2003? URLs and names of blogs have to be registered with the chain of command so that they can keep an …
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Genetically engineered 'queen' cancer cells.
Geneticists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new cell culturing medium that does something amazing: It allows human cells to transform into so-called 'queen' cancer cells, cancer cells that reproduce rapidly and produce mutants that become the actual tumours. Think of them as stem cells that specialize in producing cancers as we normally think of them. Not all malignant cells are capable of doing this, most just sit there and use up resources and oxygen and reproduce, but don't actually break off and spread to other parts of the body. This germ line of cells came about …
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High school freshmen pick their college majors; students, parents puzzled.
High school freshmen in Englewood, New Jersey will begin a puzzling new programme this fall, which will require them to pick their majors in college their freshman year, an act that will then dictate their primary classes and electives for the next four years. The programme was begun as an experimental effort to prop up falling test scores and help the students focus upon their eventual goals (aside from getting the hell out of high school, which is everyone's imperative at that age). Not all of the parents are convinced that it's a good idea, and that it smacks too …
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