Failed TV shows don’t get made into major motion pictures–unless…: I’m looking forward to this one.

Update: NerdMom’s score, almost as nerdy!

Why Everyone Should Learn to Program

The answer consists of two parts. First, it is indeed true that traditional forms of programming are useful for just a few people. But, programming as we the authors understand it is useful for everyone: the administrative secretary who uses spreadsheets as well as the high-tech programmer. In other words, we have a broader notion of programming in mind than the traditional one. We explain our notion in a moment. Second, we teach our idea of programming with a technology that is based on the principle of minimal intrusion. Hence our notion of programming teaches problem-analysis and problem-solving skills without imposing the overhead of traditional programming notations and tools.

from How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

Basically how it sits is this…. One man accuses another of being a Nazi and then provides researched documentation. Then the accused Nazi sues his accuser for libel. This is all in Zagreb. You can read the Jerusalem post article here. How is this being tolerated in a court to begin with. How can it be libel if there is proof(whether or not it is true)? There would be no proof of intent. Yet another person with unbelievable chutzpah. We all know what chutzpah is right? A great example is killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.

I just couldn’t come up with a better title that Jonah Goldberg at the Corner. Then I found the article in the Jerusalem Post:
A would-be female suicide bomber who planned to blow up at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on Monday, the same hospital where she received treatment for burns this past year, was caught at the Erez crossing wearing explosives stitched to her underwear. She said she wanted to kill up to 40 or 50 people, including as many youngsters as possible.

Call me heartless(you wouldn’t be the first). Lock the Palestinians out!!! When you have a group that tries to destroy your country it is a declaration of war. At that point you must conquer and destroy. To steal a phrase from Colin Powell, “Overwhelming force” is appropriate here. None of this touchy feely, try to help them destroy you junk.

Who knew how truly brilliant Homer was with his invention of Tomacco. Not only for it’s obvious addictive qualities;). According to National Geographic genetically engineered tomato and tobacco plants are being used for a
SARs vaccine.

I belive Congress has finally create a piece of legislature that can efficiently criminalize the population. I found an article on how the VP of Intel unknowingly violated the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Donald S. Whiteside said

“I used a program to copy a few seconds from the DVD of the movie Rudy,” he said. “It’s the scene showing the final game of the Notre Dame season with Rudy’s family in the stands cheering wildly when he got to play. I then spliced in some snippets of pro players doing a touchdown dance from NFL Films, and I overlaid it with audio from ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’

To their credit, none of the congressional aides flipped open their cell phones to call the attorney general. (When I described Whiteside’s home movie to Jack Valenti, he said, “He’s committing a violation of federal law.”)

This is ridiculous. I realize that we want to stop piraters from ripping off entire industries but the only people this will really catch are the home ameteur.

I love it! All you people who say you don’t cook read this
. While many things seperate us from the monkeys this is one of the best!

I saw this interesting post on Slashdot called Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses?. Now while I am a nerd I am not a geek but being a Science Fiction fan I read on. I was introduced to the Mundane SF. This is a movement that says Science Fiction should be based on legit science. The details are somewhat laid out in Why Play These Tropes and Not Those Others. I find this very interesting but, I have a couple concerns. SciFi geeks already focus on the details of current scifi and how things should work. An example….Questioning the warp drive in Star Trek or the beaming technology. Since it is science infused fantasy there isn’t any point and they still do it. Now being type A myself can you imagine the neurotic mess scifi fans would be in trying to make sure the true science always agrees. And how long would it take to get up to speed on a new series. Would I have to buy a book on whatever science discipline it was based on? Now the other side. I was raised in a law enforcement family (mom’s a criminoligist and stepdad was CHP) and I love the Law & Orders and CSi’s. A big part is I understand a lot of procedure and the thinking. I love science so would I enjoy true scifi even more? Could this get a whole generation more science literate? If so, can that BE a bad thing?

Add Dancing With The Stars to the list of shows my wife and children make me watch.