A Day in Paradise

in his apartment - did he own AAPL???

A St. Cloud, Minn. woman in the middle of a custody battle is facing an unusual order from the court. A district court investigator is recommending that Christa Burton stop breastfeeding her 15-month-old child, Carter.
I guess in a custody battle everything is game…
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I realize this is a serious issue… but the following paragraph threw me
Drug treatment centers in Dallas say teen “cheese” addicts are now as common as those seeking help for a marijuana addiction. “It is the first drug to have even come close in my experience here,” says Michelle Hemm, director of Phoenix House in […]

Americans are stupid
BERLIN (Reuters) - A naked American tourist raised eyebrows when he went for a walk through a German city and told police he thought this was acceptable behavior in Germany.
“We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same, we can’t have this,” a spokesman for police in the southern […]

Just hours before his execution by injection, a Tennessee death row prisoner who was convicted of killing a police officer ordered his final meal — pizza for a homeless person.
Philip Workman, 53, requested a vegetarian pizza be delivered to a homeless person in Nashville, Workman’s attorney confirmed.
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution refused, said Riverbend spokeswoman Dorinda […]

This is so wrong that I have to blog about it… in this month’s Forbes magazine they have this description of Open Source in their “Network Breakthrough Innovations” section:
1991 Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds kicks off open-source movement, a sort of wiki of computer code, with a plea for contributions to Linux operating system.
That’s pretty funny… […]

6 hours till our plane lifts off and I’m still waiting for the gravity of the step we are taking to kick in.
While the physical journey is about to start, the journey started one year ago to the day when I flew up to West Palm Beach to meet with HedgeCo for the first time. […]

Yesterday I read the an article on Network Neutrality on CNN.com. The article was written by Craig Newmark of Craigslist and was VERY wrong.
Here’s part of what bothered me:
Here’s a real world example that shows how this would work. Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying […]

Reuters writes story about guy who films himself skiing down an escalator and then posts it on Youtube.
At T-4 you would think I would have better things to do… well, I pulled an all nighter last night and am about to take apart my desk.
Today is moving out day…

I too am highly disturbed by this video…

thanks ub

I don’t usually post on security issues, but this frightening enough to warrent as much attention as it can get.
Details on Stefan Esser’s blog.
What this means is that ANY site which hosts a PDF is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. So, follow Stefan’s instructions and disable the pdf plugin.

Frightening article on BBC about creating human/cow hybrids:
The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.
But critics say it is unethical and potentially dangerous.
Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris - a member of the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee […]

Democracy Now
The guy from loose change sounded like a jerk and called everyone a liar, the guy from popular mechanics violated Godwin’s law.
Facts can be made to say anything when tortured sufficiently. “Experts” will do the same just to get their face on TV. Who are you going to believe?

Alton man throws children off 15th floor of Miami Beach hotel
A cancer doctor from Godfrey celebrating his wedding anniversary threw his two young sons off the 15th-story balcony of a South Beach hotel Saturday before jumping to his death, police say.
Dr. Edward Van Dyk, a radiation oncologist at Alton Memorial Hospital, and his two sons […]

Triangle Research Initiative