NASA Budget Cuts In Action

Angry Scientists Confront NASA Officials at Conference - Yahoo! News
"We all know they've got budget problems," said Glenn MacPherson, curator at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. "But there has been no consultation with the science community. The science cuts hurt everyone in this room."

Cherry red is out, tuna tins are in

On custom cars that is.
Amnews.com - 'Beautiful ugliness' captures attention of ZZ Top singer

A typical day for my Hotmail account

There were twenty e-mails in my Inbox this morning. Nineteen were spam. Meanwhile the Bulk Mail folder, Hotmail's repository for filtered out spam, held six. That's not a very good percentage for the spam filter. I can't cite numbers for Yahoo and Google but they both do a much better job.

Google Desktop Does Not Follow Moved Files

From Search Engine WatchGoogle Desktop Does Not Follow Moved Files

So if you search on a file that was moved, after installing Google Desktop, the file will not be correctly presented to you. The problem is, Google Desktop indexes all your files when it is first installed, then it indexes any new files added, but it does not update the index for files that are moved from location to location. The only solution I am aware of is to delete Google Desktop and then reinstall it from scratch - this way Google Desktop indexes your files all over again.

Saving Bond Info

Savings Bond info
write to Treasury’s Bureau of Public Debt at
Bureau of Public Debt
PO Box 7012
Parkersburg, WV 26106
Include the approx. date of issuance, holders name, birth date and address at time of issuance. The more detail the better. Name and SS number etc. of purchaser.
Also see Savings Bond Wizard at publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/savwizar.htm

A Golden Address for Business Success

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China's Pompeii in Henan: village preserved by mud

China's Pompeii in Henan: village preserved by mud

The Sanyangzhuang ruins were excavated in the old course of the Yellow River, the second longest waterway in China, archeologists announced.

These are the only intact ruins of an ancient village so far discovered in China, said Xu Pingfang, a famous archeologist of the Han (206 BC-220 AD) and Tang dynasties (618-907).

The ruins vividly show the distribution of courtyards and the nearby environment: All the courtyards face the south and are surrounded by cropland.

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Preacher Man by Oh Yeah on DSC-338 and the Podsafe Music Network. Great sound, check it out.

Dr. James Howenstine -- The Truth About Cholesterol

Dr. James Howenstine -- The Truth About Cholesterol

Two years ago Dr. Julian Whitaker proposed to the FDA that the package insert supplied with a statin drug contain information that statin drugs decrease the levels of the critical nutrient CoQ 10 in patients. He wisely suggested. that all patients taking statin drugs should also be taking 100 to 200 mg. of CoQ 10 daily to avoid complications (heart failure, muscle breakdown with potentially fatal kidney failure {myoglobulinuria}, muscle weakness, peripheral neuritis, transient global amnesia etc.) The FDA ignored Dr. Whitaker's suggestion because admitting that there was a danger from statin drugs, even if true, might hurt the sales of statin drugs.

Hells Geriatrics

Hells Geriatrics