news for August 30, 2011

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http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/08/30/chic-britons-have-a-new-cause-celebre-gypsies/

--> Gypsies have no place to stay. A highly mobile populace is hard to control.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44275043/ns/health-cold_and_flu/

--> Those who don't seem to ever get sick actually are, they just don't know it.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/30/starting-your-mba-read-this-first/

--> Getting your MBA? Use these tips.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-austerity-principality-idUSTRE77S39B20110829

--> What to do in the face of austerity? Print your own money.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/30/panel-reveals-new-details-140s-experiment/

--> We must take special pains to ensure such things NEVER happen again.

http://windoodles.tumblr.com/

--> Cool non-permanent, non-destructive vandalism. It is art.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nut-nutrition-software

--> Watching what you eat? Try NUT.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555

--> Cremation not your thing? Maybe liquefaction is. No? How about freeze drying followed with composting? These are all green technologies without the soylent.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2011/08/30/muscle-fatigue-may-be-all-in-your-head/

--> Muscle fatigue? Nah, it is all in your head. Well, not entirely. But a lot.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-pitfalls-of-positive-thinking

--> The power of positive thinking can make you fail.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=doodles-and-drawings-help-cement-co-11-08-29

--> Doodling is a good thing!

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/08/stupid-robots-take-to-the-stag.html

--> Stupid robots FTW!!!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-sex-of-17

--> English is a gender-neutral language but people still tend to apply gender to words and objects. IT just proves how broken the language is.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/30/romney-dems-look-to-weaponize-bachmann/

--> The rest of the Republican party does not want Bachmann in, but are more than ready to recognize her ability to debate and win. Quite a double standard. Also, Obama disses the VFW.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/scientists-sequence-black-death-bacteria-dna-admit-they-were-wrong.ars

--> The bacteria that caused the Black Death is causing some scientific controversy.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/piece-of-antarctica-related-to-texas.ars

--> A hefty-sized chunk of Texas can be found in Antarctica.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128276.300-dumping-friends-on-facebook-helps-make-you-secure.html

--> Tell-tale signs of your online friends that you can and cannot trust.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128276.500-image-searches-poisoned-by-cybercriminals.html

--> image-jacking on Google is the latest fraud

http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1879-run-linux-on-windows-without-virtualization-using-andlinux

--> Are you a Windows user that needs to run Linux but can't or won't leave Microsoft's grip? No problem. Run Linux on Windows just like any other program.

http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/555-3-nice-plugins-for-gimp

--> Useful GIMP plugins

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/30/fast.and.furious.melson/index.html

--> ATF head reassigned. Still need to get rid of Eric Holder.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-29/tech/googleplus.real.names.cashmore_1_facebook-credits-google-chairman-eric-schmidt-identity?_s=PM:TECH

--> Google plus wants to know who you really are so they can be an identity broker.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14715931

--> Hidden and secret cave in Scottish Highlands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14680570

--> The theory of supersymmetry may be super wrong.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/30/iowa-girl-born-after-fathers-death-not-entitled-to-benefits-appeals-court-rules/

--> Born two years after her father's death, she will get no Social Security survivor's benefits.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110828/23583815721/if-acta-is-approved-us-it-may-open-door-president-to-regularly-ignore-congress-international-agreements.shtml

--> If ACTA is a non-binding treaty, then why are the Europeans saying it is? "... the Constitution simply does not allow this kind of agreement to be signed without Senate approval. Amusingly, Senator Biden -- back during the previous administration -- was one of the leading voices in trying to prevent President Bush from signing an "executive agreement" with Russia, without getting Senate approval. ... it does not seem Constitutional for the President to sign such a document as an executive agreement. The only things that can be signed as an executive agreement are things that are solely under the President's mandate. But intellectual property laws are clearly afforded to Congress and not the President under the Constitution -- meaning that he has no authority to sign this document without it first being approved by the Senate. ..."