40th Anniversary: King Assassination

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The state of the economy

Today on NPR (listening on my way back from Sac) was an interview with Michael Greenberger. He said basically that our economy is built on a bunch of gamblers sitting behind computers. Listen here.

parasites

I was doing some research on health and cleansing and ran across this article (old) in discover magazine on parasites entitled; do parasites rule the world. Here is an excerpt (chilling);

Yet we know that we, too, are collections of cells that work together, kept harmonized by chemical signals. If an organism can control those signals— an organism like a parasite— then it can control us. And therein lies the peculiar and precise horror of parasites.

http://discovermagazine.com/2000/aug/cover

This little light of mine...

This group (clark brothers) just performed on American Idol and won the next greatest band contest: (best version I have ever heard)

Sampa Personal, Family Website

I ran across this site today. I have not toured it in much detail yet but looks like it could be useful in the neverending quest to find one place to "broadcast" to family and friends;

Sampa - Create a Free Website, Baby website, Family website, Personal website

Rockin to Johnny Cash

I haven't listened to country in years. A friend mentioned Johnny Cash last week. So I created a new station to listen.

You can find my stations at:

World Autism Day

Today is world autism day.

Gmail Custom TimeTM

Google is off the hook! This is the company that I love to hate but that I love. I work about 3 blocks from the Googleplex and I use all their products.

This blog is hosted by google, I use google reader, I use gmail, etc... they allow their employees to use 10-20% (some percent) of their time for personal projects.

Many of those end up being the products that you and I use. I just saw "custom time". I have no idea of the practical use but take a look -

Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM - who thought of this?

Also see - Grandfather Paradox -

(gotta love April fool's)

Links: The 101 most useful websites

Ran across this list today. I spent a couple minutes going through and there looks to be some good links;

The 101 most useful websites The Best Article Every day

cakemusic.com | NEWS

Cake is a great band. They are from Sacramento. Wendy and I were married and lived in Sacramento. Arnold Schwarzenegger now runs Sacramento. I think the coincidences end there.

Anyway, I like the format of their news "blog". Here is an interesting fact from one of their posts:

cakemusic.com NEWS: "Nearly half of the world's 1.3 billion smokers live in China, India and Indonesia, the three largest consumers of tobacco products. In China alone, more people smoke than live in the United States."

Into the Wild

Last night we watched Into the Wild;

It was well done. Good acting. Great cast. Above all, was what Christopher McCandless, played by Emile Hirsch discovers at the end about relationships. After rejecting society and setting off on his own to live in the wild he comes to some great realizations. Rather than give it away (it's been out a long time anyway) - watch it!