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Commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Plus there are gallons of it on the moon...
Commented on Stacking 117 objects on a Lego block, then knocking it over.
I can really appreciate this one. I am a stacking freak. I am frequently getting in trouble at bars for stacking bottles, chairs, and pint glasses. I also stack other people's possessions when they aren't looking....
Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
Hey after some years you'll be a big star in the gay world. Heroes make big stars. Thats how the world works....
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
I either messed up my post between "I love Hindu culture" and "Wikipedia" or it got moderated. So now I am paranoid....
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
It was linked by Wikipedia..link...
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
Check out this guy's swastika reclamation crusade..link...
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
I have been trying to figure out why this post bothers me so much. I keep refreshing the page, and then telling myself this is a minor cultural battle between Jewish culture and the Hindu/Buddhist/Navajo/Latvia cultures for the meaning of...
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
It sounds like this is what the post is saying: Latvians, Buddhists, Hindus, you can still practice your culture, but it shouldn't be on wrapping paper....
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
EDIT: You have effectively destroyed the original USE of the symbol (ie. BoingBoing)....
Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
I'm pretty sure the Nazi's used the symbol because they were attempting to establish a cultural identity that was not based on judeo-christianity (pagan) and at the time linguists were discovering similarities between Sanskrit and German. This lead the linguists...
Commented on Sleep: more important than you think (Psychology Today)
When I get enough sleep, which I have since my funemployment, I have found my proactive personality coming out like it hasn't in ages....
Commented on Age of the Informavore
As Schirrmacher says: "when you have a conflict between a population explosion and not enough food, then Darwinian selection starts." To the extent that the Internet is a useful tool, I think you'll see that those "selected" by Nature will...
Commented on Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology
There is a lot of moral confusion on the Right, and often on the Left, a condition that church denominations have traditionally attended to. Darwinism has fired the church from that position and now it is administered by a collective...
Commented on Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries
Am I correct in interpreting this to say that these prices by health providers are targeting the ability of insurance companies to pay those sums while the insurance companies still remain profitable? If that's true then A) insurance companies are...
Commented on California's true bankruptcy: kids and the future.
In the US we do distribute food, medical care, and shelter to our prisoners, estimated at the cost $60 billion a year link. Considering that we, as one of the most capitalist countries, also has the highest number of people...
Commented on Spurning the "false god of coffee"
The crowd has moved on but here's more about dopamine. Dopamine:NYT...
Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
The comic book hero theme satisfies animistic impulses without actually theorizing animism. If you enjoy comic books, as I have, I think it show that no matter how "modern" you are there is some of that old hunter gatherer in...
Commented on Sony unveils new 3D display
Also if you knew the position of a single viewer you could have an anamorphic display system. That's true even of a flat screen....
Commented on Spurning the "false god of coffee"
Rereading the links, the suggesting of Wikipedia (the first link) is that the lack of adenosine (not the caffeine triggering the adenosine receptor) causes increased dopamine. The implication of the article from the singularity blog (the second link) suggests that...
Commented on Spurning the "false god of coffee"
According to apoxia's link caffeine, by virtue of it's similarity, blocks adenosine. I don't know how that effects dopamine but this link suggests that dopamine increases without describing the causal relationship. Action in the central nervous system. In this article,...
Commented on Sympathy for the Lamprey
Hmm..thanks for pointing me in this direction. What I have learned since you posted is very interesting. Lampreys are not considered true fish but rather a taxon of jawless "fishes" most of which are extinct, called Cephalaspidomorphs. This placement among...
Commented on Ghost Town Tour
I love me some ghost towns. Nothing like a little modern day vanitas to keep one's spirit fresh....
Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
If I am elected, I will propose a Michael Bay sumptuary tax, not unlike the alcohol and cigarette taxes, to deter people from watch his films. Those proceeds can go to the cultures that have been robbed such as the...
Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
I wonder if a remedy is discovered how soon it will be before normal sexual orgasms become the peak expereince most people experience them as....
Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
Christmas Wishes...
Commented on Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever
Whew that's a relief! I would have been devastated if you had typed that. But seriously, in full disclosure you fired shots at "California", which is my home state and the state I live in. I don't know why you...
Commented on Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever
NJ beat CA in number of superfund sites, 116 to 98. http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/land/rank-states.tcl Can we talk about the dead zones now?...
Commented on Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever
Have at it. http://www.scorecard.org/index.tcl...
Commented on Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever
We just need some genetically engineered anaerobic fish, or a giant aquarium bubbler....
Commented on Alan Moore's new zine: Dodgem Logic
Well that trumps my post-apocalyptic zine but at least I got the zeitgeist right....

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Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Stuff it, Melburke @49. My family's lived in Central Arizona since the 19th C., and I'm thoroughly familiar with both the issues and the rhetoric. Arizonans are always going on about how they could get water from unlikely sources -- the Columbia River, the Great Lakes, Canada, etc. -- if only the government had a more reasonable understanding of their needs. It's not true, and it's never going to be true. As I said: look at a map of the United States that shows terrain and elevation. It's almost all uphill from the Great Lakes to Central Arizona, and the...
danlalan commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
the "zero infrastructure method" heh...
culturegeek commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
That argument strikes me as a bit disingenuous. Nobody is saying that there is a scarcity of _all_ water in poor countries. Nobody is saying that we are destroying actual water molecules or their component atoms. That is an obvious straw man. People talking about scarcity of water are talking about scarcity of _potable_ water, which is demonstrably killing people. We don't destroy our water, we pollute it. Wastewater is not a new concept and it is not the same thing as potable water. While infrastructure would help, it is not always feasible to convert the former into the latter....
Grimel commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Finally a voice of reason. How can there be a water shortage? On a global basis the net amount of water stays the same unless it is somehow disappearing into space. The story is the same with food, as he mentions. It's a very convenient way to feel good to pretend that one is environmentally conscious by spending money on 'organics', etc., but completely unnecessary. It's the same story as your mother telling you to eat everything on your plate because there are starving kids in other countries. True, but what does cleaning your plate do to help that. The...
ab3a commented on Is There Really A Water Crisis?
/* Disclaimer: I work for a water utility */ Fact 1: Nobody CONSUMES water. They rent it. Fact 2: Water is heavy. It takes significant energy to move it uphill, or even down a relatively level pipe. Fact 3: There are very few pollutants that we can't remove from water, given enough energy. What we're talking about is management of resources, maximizing energy efficiency, and building and maintaining infrastructure. All of these require effective management and good governmental oversight. What is lacking most of all is the political vision and motivation to recognize the problem and improve everyone's lives. Think...

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