meta-roj

here on earth, we have the bass. but out on saturn, they have the theramin.

this explains all the sci-fi movie background mood music. coulda been ripped right off the rings…

this has made the rounds while i was otherwise occupied, but i thought i’d add my own comments anyway…

The Sound of a Distant Rumble: Researchers Track Underwater Noise Generated by December 26 Earthquake

i think it needs more cowbell.

chi-lite

blues

code talker

off to the final frontier

inspired by my own post on iraqi civilian deaths, i thought i’d scratch a little deeper and see what i could find.

two years in iraq (march 2003-march 2005)
iraqi civilian deaths: 24,865 (source)
coalition deaths: 1712 (source)

kill ratio: 14.52 (24,865/1712)

four and a half years in israel (september 2000-april 2005)
palestinian deaths: 3596 (source)
israeli deaths: 953 (source)

kill ratio: 3.77 (3596/953)

i realize this isn’t entirely fair – since there’s lots of room for interpretation in the concept of “civilian” and i’m quite confident that the definition is never going to be the same twice, but… i thought a moment of reflection on the “us vs. them” (and “them vs. us”) was worth a few words.

ow available from the folks over at iraqbodycount.net, a report [pdf] documenting 24,865 civilians killed in iraq in the first two years after invasion.

i’m sure the friends (let’s say 10 each) and family (let’s say 4 each) of each of these dead civilians (let’s call that 348,110 friends and family) are very happy with the united states at the moment.

speak truth. all wars are crimes.

sustained @ 155mph (250km/h), gusts @ 190mph (305km/h), a big fat eye and as near as i can tell, coming right at ya…

(imagery from digital typhoon)

how long will it take to aerosolize and pump into casinos?

Pathological Gambling Caused by Drugs Used to Treat Parkinson Disease [archives of neurology, 2005.07.11

All 11 patients with PD [Parkinson’s Disease] and pathological gambling were taking therapeutic doses of a dopamine agonist; 3 of these patients were not treated with levodopa. In 7 patients, pathological gambling developed within 3 months of starting to take or escalating the dose of the agonist; in the other 4 with a longer latency, gambling resolved after the agonist use was discontinued. Pramipexole dihydrochloride was the agonist in 9 of 11 cases in our series and 10 of 17 in the literature (68% in total).

then again, pramipexole dihydrochloride is a white powder, so maybe it’s not worth the effort to aerosolize… nah. we’re talking about gambling. it’s worth the chance…