U.S. bishops have decided that it is not permissible to remove a feeding tube from someone who is unconscious but not dying, except in a few circumstances.

Full story at Chicago Tribune

Vehicle Make / Model: Model Year(s): HONDA / FIT 2007-2008 Manufacturer: HONDA (AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.) Mfr’s Report Date: JAN 27, 2010 NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 10V033000 N/A NHTSA Action Number: N/A

Component: VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS

Potential Number of Units Affected: 141000

Summary: HONDA IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2007-2008 FIT VEHICLES. UNDER SEVERE CONDITION, WATER MAY ENTER THE DRIVER’S WINDOW AND REACH THE MASTER POWER WINDOW SWITCH. IF THE MASTER POWER WINDOW SWITCH IS DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF THE WATER INTRUSION, OVERHEATING AND FAILURE OF THE SWITCH MAY RESULT.

Consequence: AN OVERHEATED SWITCH CAN CAUSE SMOKE, MELTING AND FIRE.

Remedy: DEALERS WILL INSPECT THE SWITCH AND INSTALL A COVER AROUND THE SWITCH HOUSING TO PREVENT WATER FROM ENTERING THE SWITCH. IF THE SWITCH IS DAMAGED, THE SWITCH WILL BE REPLACED AND A COVER WILL BE INSTALLED. THIS SERVICE WILL BE PERFORMED FREE OF CHARGE. THE MANUFACTURER HAS NOT YET PROVIDED AN OWNER NOTIFICATION SCHEDULE. OWNERS MAY CONTACT HONDA AT 1-800-999-1009.

Jon Schwartz resigned from Sun after Oracle completed their purchase of the company this past week.

from The New York Times (NYT uses eminent domain to kick out little guy)

From Merriam-Webster:

The Word of the Day for February 5 is:
alow   \uh-LOH\   adverb
: below

Example sentence:
“Then, with all her sails, light and heavy, and studding sails on each side, alow and aloft, she is the most glorious moving object in the world.” (Noel Perrin, The New York Times, May 30, 1982)

Did you know?
In nautical use, “alow” means “in or to a lower part of the vessel,” indicating the deck or the area of the rigging closest to the deck, or below-deck as opposed to above-deck. The opposite of “alow” in this sense is “aloft,” used to indicate a higher part of the vessel. Yet, while we are still likely to encounter “aloft,” in both nautical and non-nautical use, “alow” has become something of a rarity. When encountered, it is usually found in the combination “alow and aloft.” This phrase literally refers to the upper and lower parts of a ship or its rigging, but it can also be used to mean “completely” or “throughout” — similar to the more familiar “high and low.”

Hey everybody, I just found some more pseudoscience for you all.  This time it has to do with the effect known as dowsing.  For anyone out there that doesn’t know dowsing is a very old pseudoscience where a dowser will use Y or L shaped sticks to find water or some other substance.  Like many pseudosciences dowsing was debunked long ago but still hangs around to this day.  Many believers say that things like ghosts, people, treasure, radiation and pretty much anything else they can think of can be found using this technique.  The newest form of dowsing comes in the form of a bomb detector.  The idea of this pseudoscience being used for bomb detection is almost laughable till you found out that the ADE-651 is being used in Iraq.  The ADE-651 is basically a  metal stick with a “black box” attached to it that senses the “frequency” of explosive material.  A card with a label on it designates what you want it to look for such as TNT and this card is put into the box.  When this card is cracked open what you find is nothing more than a cheap security device that would be found on a CD case at Target.  These security devices can’t be programmed and have no type of memory and lets not forget that these devices have no batteries and are powered by the users static electricity, WOW.  The problem is these things have allowed many bombs to slip past checkpoints despite their $40,000 price tag.  At least people are starting to notice how ineffective these devices are and investigations are being conducted on the UK company that produces them.  In the end this is all just a modern twist on an ancient way of magical thinking.   As always for more info check it out here BBC News

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Fallout: New Vegas, coming out for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is not developed by the same team at Bethesda that created Fallout 3. Rather the game is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a studio comprised of many developers who worked on the original Fallout games, and published by Bethesda.

So, the crybabies should be just as happy as the reasonable Fallout fans willing to adapt, right? Right? Anyway, I haven’t really been following the news on this game at all, because they really haven’t given any substantial info on it. A release date is always a nice piece of news… even if it is just a blanket statement of  “fall 2010″, which could easily be BS anyway. But lets stay positive on this one! It’s coming out soon, and it’s going to be epic!

Also, Frank Sinatra!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Dave out

First hit on Google!

Not sure how many people actually search for transmitter down, but there you go!

-Dave out

FYI

http://www.google.com/corporate/privacy_principles.html

So for all of you that do not know the story, about two months or so back I went to a small bar downtown for what I thought was going to be a small concert.  Turns out it was a really small concert, like maybe 20 to 24 people watching this dude perform.  This dude is George Hrab and he is a musician that also has a podcast.  Basically he is just a hilarious guy with some funny songs.  Thought I would share one let me know what ya think. Oh the show was pretty fucking cool too.  I would definitely go again.

 

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