Don’t blame police, really, as the kids were making drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, but I don’t know if arresting them was the appropriate action. Good counseling would probably have been more appropriate. Full Story.
Category: Interesting
Beer Fights Cancer
There’s apparently some mystery ingredient in beer that, taken in moderation, can help fight cancer.
Professional Basketball Coming To Central Oregon?
A minor-league professional basketball organization with a reputation for sending players to the NBA hopes to place a new franchise in Central Oregon.
The Continental Basketball Association is currently in communication with local officials and a potential ownership group about forming a CBA team that would be based in Redmond starting with the 2005-2006 season.
What’s more interesting is that while they don’t hold open tryouts for the team, they do have their eye on Chris Baert, who I went to high-school with and now currently plays with an ABA team.
Microsoft Rules The HyperText Transfer Protocol?
More by accident (and thanks to Firefox’s autosearch if it can’t find the URL), I accidently typed “http” (and that’s it) into my URL field. Firefox, by default, goes to Google, and then directs you to the first result it finds. What I thought was interesting is that first site when you search for http is Microsoft, followed by Yahoo, Altavista, World Wide Web Consortium, CNN, Excite, Lycos, Amazon, Adobe, and Mapquest (rounding out the top 10). Google shows up on page two, along with The New York Times, Netscape, Real, the World Health Organization, Mozilla.org, Ask.com, IMDB, Winzip, and PHP.net.
Similar results for other protocols aren’t happening because, generally, other protocols are used in product/site names (FTP, Gopher, NNTP, etc…).
I do find it interesting the variety of types of links that are showing up. For the most part, this is a “Who’s Who” of the Web. Anybody have any theories on why certain sites are showing up here versus others?
Oregon Employers Don’t Give A Rip?
That’s sort of the way I’m reading this press release. It says “Nearly half of Oregon employers treat their employees well to help reduce turnover, according to the results of a recent survey.” So do the other 50% just not give a rip?
Just something to think about.
When Cartoonists Fight
I like Penny Arcade. I also like Non Sequitur. But I have to agree with Gabe on this one that Wiley screwed this one up. Web publishing is a very strong medium, and he’ll realize that soon enough — especially considering what Penny Arcade has done over the years.
More background on the fights here. Links via Waxy.
How Do They Test These?
Consumer Reports did a story about the effectiveness of various types of condoms (how they tested this, I don’t know). Apparently one from Planned Parenthood did the worst (which was probably intentional so they can sell you the morning after pill or some abortion service afterwards). Full story.
How Has America’s Tsunami Media Coverage Been?
According to one professor, American’s media coverage has been “great at explaining what a tsunami is. But otherwise I can see why the rest of the world thinks Americans care about death and destruction only when Americans are involved.” He makes some very good points about the coverage. Full Story. Link from Barney.
SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
Obviously this is all in the rumor mill right now, but the rumor is that SixApart, the company that makes MovableType (the software that powers this site), is looking to buy out LiveJournal. Jeff asks some good questions like what it means for TypePad, the LiveJournal open source code, etc… . ? Matt thinks SixApart is going after LJ for its engineers, but the revenue certainly wouldn’t hurt. Danah brings up some good points about the cultural divide between MT and LJ users. Heck, I’ve even mentioned some local users before.
Obviously this is all rumor, but do take into account what happened last time SixApart bought a blog hosting service.
Links via everywhere, but mostly MovableBlog Asides.
Update on 1/6: It’s official.
You Knew It Was Going To Happen
Someone in a position to warn a crap load of people about their impending Tsunami doom tried his best, but he couldn’t reach anyone.
On a related note, the “official” death toll stands at 158,018 (though the number could potentially grow once they get to some other areas).