There are plenty of good reasons you might want to prop up your iPhone. Say you're using it as an alarm clock. Or (sorry David Lynch) watching a video. MoviePeg, without being cutesy or funny or DIY-y, just does it. More »
How to Devise a Stellar Social Media Policy: NASA's Tips, Network World
"NASA has been exploring social media--a territory still foreign to many businesses--for years now. But back in 2007, as more and more employees began using external social media sites, NASA determined that it was time develop a policy--not just to protect the agency, but to protect their employees as well. ... NASA successfully developed and implemented a set of social media guidelines and added them onto the existing communications policy. Check out Holm's tips and tricks to help make your social media policy rollout go smoothly."
Keith's note: So ... there are tips offered on how NASA advises people to develop a social media policy (guidelines) yet the agency itself still has not managed to develop a social media policy. I cannot seem to find that policy online despite the claims made in this article that it has been under development since 2007. One would think that such things are online, right? Given that there is some confusion among people at NASA who are supposed to coordinate such things, wouldn't this disconnect as to the status of these guidelines undermine the value of some of this advice from NASA?
UPDATE: SOLVED at 1:15 CDT by Carl
Happy Saturday, and welcome to a new cycle of riddles. We all start over with a blank slate to build up a list of “riddle champions” for the next bonus riddle. Tom and I had a lot of fun with the bonus riddle, and we’re looking forward to this cycle.
Same rules apply as always, and I know you’re ready; so here goes:
Today’s answer is an object.
It was discovered by a very famous “father”.
It is a single object, and it stands out from quite a crowd.
This object has many features no other of its kind possesses.
It participates in a remarkable “dance” with some of its partners.
In itself, it is a mixture of old and young.
When you look at this object, you see ghosts.
And finally, take a look at this image:
Image found on PhotoBucket, Jazzie724
It’s a clue.
Are you ready? You know where to find me… lurking, as usual.
I get smeared sometimes. As a journalist who has actually written on conflict of interest, it can be amusing to watch–but rarely this amusing:
Chris Mooney’s Pharmaceutical Influence
By Jake Crosby
He is the drug industry’s newer, trendier go-to guy in the media, replacing the role of Arthur Allen, who took a break to write about tomatoes. An ex-patriot of “Science”Blogs who now blogs for Discover, and contributing editor to Science Progress, Chris Mooney is perhaps Pharma’s newest writer who has taken on the task of spoon-feeding its message to the public.
From there it is smears all the way down. You can read the whole thing here. My favorite sentence:
Yet despite the previously described mingling with obvious denialists and plagiarists, Chris Mooney is perhaps most notorious in the autism community….
You complete the sentence. But make sure to include the word “Pharma” at least twice….
PS: Orac has more on Jake Crosby’s endeavors…..written pretty kindly, as I think this particular case deserves.
The official Bing app only dropped in December, but the Bing blog reports that a new and improved app is now available for free from the App Store. Some new features include the incorporation of bookmarks, copy and pasting URLs, and direct sharing via e-mail, along with a host of other new features and tweaks. More »
To serious gamers, the thought of just trashing a console—even if it's an Xbox 360 that's been claimed by the red ring of death—is just downright disrespectful. This coffin lets it rest in video game peace. More »
Today, March 20, at 17:32 GMT (1:32 p.m. EST) — after three months of crawling northward — the center of the Sun will lie on the celestial equator, heralding the moment of the vernal equinox.
Or, more understandably, if somewhat less correctly, spring will arrive.
But someone really needs to tell New Mexico (where I’m currently traveling). I don’t think the weather watches the news here.
All this talk about preserving digital legacies got me thinking: What about the bits we don't want to leave behind? Y'know, the risqué material? Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. More »
In Plant Engineering, who designs and develops the Original Plot Plan.
Generally refinement of the Plot Plan is done by the piping dept of the consultancy services. Original, Basic Plot Plan is supposed to be designed by the Plant Design Engineer. But the Plant Design Engineer belongs to wh
You know what? Nokia's just about had it with you guys complaining about the design of their devices. "Let's see you do better," the company says. "No, really, use this panel of sliders and buttons to design your dream phone." More »
Hi mates:
I am an Engineer from non-English country. It is much appreciated your supports on many technical lexicons. The 1st one is: "Fence gates shall be swing type complete with latches, stops, keepers, hinges, and fabric". Pls. help me what are "keeper and fabric" here?
Regards
My friend and Hive Overmind co-blogger Sean Carroll is a theoretical cosmologist, which means he thinks about why the Universe is the way it is, and applies what we know about physics and mathematics to try to understand it. His particular interest is the flow of time, and why it goes from the past to the future. That may seem like a weird thing, but in fact we don’t understand why we remember the past and not the future. Space goes in all directions, but time is a one-way street. Why?
This question is so interesting, in fact, that it caught the attention of noted scientist and thinker Stephen Colbert, who discussed it (and Sean’s new book, From Eternity to Here) on his TV show last week. I highly recommend taking a look at the clip Sean has on his blog; he’s a great example of not only someone trying to pry open the secrets of everything, but also of someone who enjoys doing it, and does a great job explaining it under what must be the high-pressure gaze of Colbert. My congrats to Sean for joining the long list of my friends who have been on that TV show, and of course I’m not jealous at all. Really. Not even a little tiny bit. Seriously.
Nguyen Anh-Huong and Thich Nhat Hanh with instructions for smiling when practicing the peaceful art of walking meditation.
Clearly UnConstitutional
Cong. Tom McClintock of California, remarks House Floor, Auburn Journal, March 16:
My constituents have read the Constitution, including the provision that requires both houses to vote on a bill before it can become a law.
M. Speaker, if the Democrat majority attempts to impose this law without a direct vote, two things will be obvious to every American.
First, that the Democrats are ashamed to cast the very “up-or-down” vote on the health care takeover that the President promised as recently as yesterday.
And far more disturbing, that the Congress has now placed itself above the Constitution.
Republican leadership wimping out; should call for complete Privatization
Syndicated Radio Talk show host Larry Elder, Column, Orange County Register, "Republicans in cahoots with collectivists":
The entire Obamacare debate starts off in the wrong place -- with Republicans agreeing that "reform" is necessary, health care "costs too much" and that government must "make health care more affordable." But it is because of government -- laws, regulations and policies -- that users pay more for services and drugs than they otherwise would...
they should encourage a full-throated deregulation/privatization of the health care industry.
Because government pays for nearly half of medical costs, we have a nation of government-provided-health-care dependents.
Are Republicans sounding the alarm about government's present intrusion in health care and its counterproductive effect on quality, affordability and accessibility?
A collectivist, whether an active or passive one, is still a collectivist. Having an "R" after the name provides no defense.
Impeach Obama and these "power mad clowns"
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs:
Why are House Democrats so suicidally focused on pushing through an unpopular bill? Because they believe that the Republicans will never be able to repeal it and that they will have established a permanent new government entitlement that will only grow in future decades, pushing this country permanently farther toward the left.
But there is something different about this bill. Previous welfare-state expansions enjoyed public support and passed with bipartisan majorities—which served to demoralize any opposition. Never has a bill like this gone through on a strict one-party vote when the American people oppose it by nearly two to one...
If there is any justice, impeachment proceedings await Pelosi, Reid and Barry Obama if they putsch the health bill through. The American people don't want it. Period.
We are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Who the hell do these power-mad clowns think they are?
Health Care nowheres to be found in US Constitution
Wes Benedict, Exec. Director, Libertarian Party (release):
The words "health care" and "medicine" are not found anywhere in the Constitution. Accordingly, the Libertarian Party asserts that Congress has no authority to regulate or appropriate money for health care.
"We oppose this horrible federal government expansion into health care... It is a virtual certainty that the cost estimates of this legislation are drastically understated... said Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath. "This is a top-down, Washington-mandated control of health insurance and health care in this nation. It is the antithesis of consumer-driven health care, which is what will ultimately be necessary to control health care costs and to provide the best health care for the greatest number of people."
Just like Sarah Palin said, rationing and even death panels for real
Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, NR Weekend
The bill will cost more than advertised. It won’t be long before Congress is shocked — shocked! — to discover that health-care reform is going to cost a lot more than expected. It’s not just the budgetary gimmicks that Democrats have been employing to hide the bill’s true cost. It’s also that government programs — and government health-care programs in particular — almost always end up exceeding their cost estimates.
And the government will increasingly intervene in medical decision making, micromanaging medical decisions and deciding what treatments are most effective or, frighteningly, most cost-effective...
insurance premiums will double in the next few years. In fact, for the millions of Americans who get their insurance through the individual market, rather than from an employer, this bill will raise premiums by 10–13 percent more than if we do nothing. Young and healthy people can expect their premiums to go up even more.
No trust left for Obama
Dennis Miller, O'Reilly Report, Fox News:
I heard the guy blow too much smoke over the year. He said he wasn't going to take the public funding. Then he became the candidate. Then he immediately went back on that or he would take the public funding. I just don't trust the guy anymore...
you know, if we vote for this bill, you are trusting President Obama and you are trusting the Democratic Party because all the Republicans are against it.
Tea Party tidal wave coming...
Rand Paul, Republican candidate for US Senate - Kentucky, SmallGovTimes.com
Show us the government program that came in under cost. They're always two to three times wrong in underestimated the budget...
[If this passes] I think there’s going to be a tea party tidal wave like you’ve never seen...
Obama didn't get the message of Scott Brown; but he will in November
Marco Rubio, candidate for US Senate - Florida (Marco2010.com)
How many Massachusetts-like pushbacks is it going to take for President Obama to understand the American people want to reform health care without changing and abandoning all the things that have made our system great? How many town halls, tea parties and elections will it take for the American people to finally convey to Washington that we need to scrap this flawed proposal and process, and start anew on step-by-step reforms?
I join the American people in opposing this proposal on policy grounds as well as the procedural approach being considered to ram it through. If President Obama and Congressional Democrats go down the road of reconciliation, they will leave no doubt in the American people’s minds that Washington is broken and 2008’s promise of ‘Change’ was little more than a campaign slogan that should not have been believed in the first place.
A note of Optimism
Dr. Jack Wheeler, To the Point News
It took Pearl Harbor for us to recognize the evil of Tojo's Imperial Japan. It took Hitler's declaring war on us after Pearl Harbor to open our eyes to him. Then we did what it took to rid the world of Nazism and Japan...
The struggle for freedom and against the forces of fascism will always continue. We have the morality of freedom, America's founding principles, and 300 million guns in private hands on our side. That's a very good basis for realistic optimism.
An optimism tempered in the reality that the evil we face is in fact evil, that it means us and our country harm, that it is ruthless, that it is relentless, that it will never abandon its attempt to control our lives.
Only by facing this reality can we begin to not only hold Democrat Fascists at bay from further destruction of our freedom, but start to recapture the territory of freedom they have stolen from us.
no matter what happens to ObamaCare, we can use its passage or failure to expand our freedom, and make Pelosi-Reid-Obama evil if not go to sleep... victory over them will come with one final Waterloo... a tsunami wipeout of Dems next November, Zero (Obama) losing to Sarah Palin in 2012, et al.
An incident from 2008, brought to light recently by the Washington Post, reveals just how discombobulated our nation's cybersecurity efforts actually are. A terrorist-tracking forum, created by the CIA and Saudi government, was shut down by the National Security Agency. More »
I am looking for free book or free website that can give me the basics to size the CT, PT, Over current, differential phase sequance and other relay protections.
GD^2 of the motor which indicates the moment of inertia for a moving or rotating body
Anybody know the formula to calculate the GD^2 of the motor wahat actual parameters r needed to calculate it
how to decide the insulation level for a system before testing the insulation of the electrical system
Where calculators were once excluded from the classroom, they are now relied upon by many students to help them work through mathematical equations. Some tech gurus argue that the Internet and smart phones are doing the same to take the brain power out of our thinking by making life simpler. A new u
Fear of genetically modified plants is widespread. Concerns include the safety and health of consumers, ecological chaos, the complete loss of control over food production to big business, and the extermination of small farmers. Defenders of genetic engineering point to a relatively good safety reco
