Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
By Rachel Boulding, Church Times THE Archbishop of Canterbury was in defiant mood this week, as he spoke of his hopes for the Lambeth Conference. He was positive about its strong mission agenda, which he believes should put into perspective the debate about sexuality. In an interview for this paper, Dr Williams admits to feeling “frustrated”, and [...]
Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Following on from our post concerning Steve Moore’s AirRemote iPhone application that serves to allow your iPhone to control everything from AV equipment to being the central control unit of a complete home automation setup, UC Berkeley has just announced a new iPhone application that will allow Apple’s device to ...
Politics.bm (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A reader writes on the changes to the cruise ship policy announced on Friday: “The Premier said ships would now be allowed to open bars and signature shops and "provide full entertainment inclusive of the opening of casinos after 10...
Arik's blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Mark Thatcher: Man on the run Times Online, UK - 3 hours ago A central control room within the huge complex monitors all movement 24 hours a day via a bank of CCTV screens. The steep terrain makes El Madronal ...
QandO (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
T he Heritage Foundation points to a law which the Senate passed yesterday which Heritage sarcastically characterizes as the "Municipal Government Bankruptcy Enhancement Act": Yesterday the Senate voted to end debate on a bill that requires police officers, firefighters and other first responders across the nation to submit to collectively bargaining. Before the Senate votes on final passage of the...
MLB (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Twins eyeing Central control
Hindu (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
New Delhi: The North felt the onslaught of the blistering heat on Saturday as Delhi recorded a season's high of 41 degree Celsius and the mercury hovered near the 45-degree mark in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh while it claimed two lives ...
POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Has anyone else noticed the increasing number of “wanted” persons handing themselves in at the front office? I wonder if this story has anything to do with it. How on earth can anyone, the public or the Government, hold us accountable for crime rates when the ultimate sanction we have is seen in this way . “Hurry up and pass the caviar will you Reg, The Bill is on in a minute” As I walked around the...
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
This makes me unreasonably upset : In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn't work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Kishore Mahbubani of the National University of Singapore explains why China sees Tibet quite differently than the West: Chinese history records dominion over Tibet as far back as the 13th century. China's control has ebbed and flowed -- but this...
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
There’s been more activity in the distributed consensus space recently. At the Hypertable talk yesterday Doug mentioned Hyperspace, their Chubby-style distributed lock manager. Though I think it's missing the ‘distributed’ part for now. To provide some level of high availability, Hypertable needs something akin to Chubby. We’ve decided to call this service Hyperspace. Initially [...]
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
The first four releases by The Replacements are being reissued this week (remastered with bonus tracks). Today through Friday, Kevin Cole will be featuring each of these albums with a giveaway on the Afternoon Show. Each day will focus on a different release, so tune in! Besides those seminal albums, there is a bevy of brilliant [...]
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
I wrote yesterday that Conadscam figures to have expanded in scope now that Elections Canada is investigating alleged false and misleading statements within the Cons' financial returns. But let's note as well that the core dispute about the scheme as a whole also looks to have taken a turn toward ground where the Cons are in serious trouble. Remember that the primary point of dispute before seemed...
troyspace (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
PoNG iN THe aiR iS “euRo-WHiFF” The Chemtrails & Fluoride clearly isn’t enough to kill off as many of us “useless eaters” as the Jesuit-controlled high-level Masonic powers-that-be had hoped. So the bring on their next weapon: the “Euro-Whiff”, possibly caused by all the shite talked in Brussels & Strasbourg (the latter being the home [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
The "evils" of the so-called postcode lottery in our public services are aired almost daily. Any evidence of difference in provision from one part of the country to another is routinely denounced as unacceptable.
