Some things will never change…Backwater by The Meat Puppets
Via Instapundit: NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota Not only are they missing software engineers in general, they may be in need of engineers with some very special knowledge. There are potentially two different software components involved in auto electronics. First, obviously, there’s the actual firmware that runs the electronic controllers. But another possible point of failure exists in the software that tests the electronics. To make things Read More ...
NASA Releases First-Ever iPhone Game, Complete With Wiseass Remarks – And to think, it was just the other day I was telling a NASA employee that the private market could do a lot of the same stuff they do and it would be more cost efficient. She threw “we invented velcro” at me. If only she’d known they were releasing this iPhone app, she could have shut my point down Read More ...
The Write Stuff: NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy. Hang on a sec…have to look over my shoulder to see if I can figure out where the guys from Candid Camera or Punk’d have hidden their equipment. I know I Read More ...
Class Warfare’s Next Target: 401(k) Savings. You did the responsible thing. You saved in your IRA or 401(k) to support your retirement, when you could have spent that money on another vacation, or an upscale car, or fancier clothes and jewelry. But now Washington is developing plans for your retirement savings. Well, they aren’t talking about confiscating your retirement savings. Instead, they want to have you “invest” that money into Read More ...
From: 5 Tips for Power Users Now that you’ve got the buzzes hitting your inbox under control, let’s get serious about organization by using Multiple Inboxes. There are some really good tips here, but the multiple inbox tip is probably the best. Even if you aren’t using Google Buzz (or don’t want to use it), multiple inboxes is a huge feature in gmail that will go a long way in keeping Read More ...
From Florida Today’s Space Team Blog President Obama’s plan to end the space shuttle program and cancel the shuttles’ replacement is troubling enough. More worrisome: the White House budget released last Monday shows little sign of a human space flight program beyond the space station this decade or next. There’s no clear goal to go boldly anywere. According to my sources, the general feelings around KSC are uncertainty and gloom. Read More ...
9 Studies That the Anti-Vaccination Movement Says Show Links or Bury the Truth – And a few notes on them. I don't understand the Latin parts, but I think the idea here is that these things keep a lot of people from getting really bad diseases, err, alive. iPhone Is Buzz Compatible While Most Android Phones Aren’t – "Currently there is only an estimated 28% of Android devices in use Read More ...
