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Posted by Bill *** Dave Price fleshes out my IM'ed wonderings about the body politic as an organic system with a specific metaphor about the exponentional contextual complexity of the human genome: Ray Kurzweil noted that the entire human genome is less than a gigabyte; you could store dozens of people’s full genetic codes on your hard drive. But the total amount of information in the design of a human body is far, far higher than that; the brain alone requires hundreds of million times that much data to fully describe. How then is your extraordinarily complex body created from such a small amount of data? The creation and maintenance of the body involves a relatively simple set of instructions, the iterative execution of which creates enormously greater complexity, far exceeding the amount of information in the instructions themselves. Rather than a blueprint, your body is constructed using a fractal process, a complex biological version of Wulfram’s cellular automata.
U.N. Report Sees Syrian Involvement in Hariri's Death Everyone "knew" this, of course, most of all the Lebanese, but it's interesting to see a UN Report affixing such specific blame. Good on 'em.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government is preparing for a possible U.S. invasion and he warned that such "aggression" would send gasoline in the United States prices soaring higher. The U.S. government repeated that it is not planning any such thing. Yes Hugo, you're big, you're bad, you won't take nada mierda de los matónes Americanos. Give thanks to the AP for running your paranoid political ads. Yawn.
And while I remain as exercised as anyone by the lack of wisdom of this choice, I part company with those who see the Miers nomination as a betrayal of conservative principles. The idea that Bush is looking to appoint some kind of closet liberal David Souter or even some rudderless Sandra Day O'Connor clone is wildly off the mark. The president's mistake was thinking he could sneak a reliable conservative past the liberal litmus tests (on abortion, above all) by nominating a candidate at once exceptionally obscure and exceptionally well known to him. The rest outlines his prediction for rocky hearings ...
I'd ban Hubris from posting rights on this blog, but the wily bastard's overridden the log-in that I gave him and is scurrying loose through the ship's bowels like a vicious rodent infestation.
(Via AoS and Red State Rant) Posted by Bill at October 21, 2005 07:12 AM | TrackBack (1) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsI thought that video was bogus, and after a quick double-checking, I was right: it supposedly was filmed at a lab in Chatsworth, New Hampshire. There IS NO "Chatworth, New Hampshire." We have a Chatham, but no Chatsworth. And Chatham has a population of less than 300, with town offices actually located in Center Conway, so I doubt it has any medical research laboratories. J. Posted by: Jay Tea at October 21, 2005 09:46 AM Er, no there wouldn't be any medical lab, it was just a practical joke played on that guy, filmed in a random building potrayed as a medical lab. I'm not sure that I understand your suspicion. Similarly, that was a midget dressed up in a rat tail and snout make-up. Not sure about the geographical contradictions. The show is called "Scare Tactics," and it puts people in falsely scary situations. If the subject is an actor, he's a very, very good one. Hubris, however, really is scurrying through the bowels of this blog. Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 21, 2005 09:55 AM There's a title overlaid at the beginning that sets the scene as happening in "Chatsworth, New Hampshire." There IS NO CHATSWORTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. I checked three sources to confirm it -- Yahoo maps, Google maps, and NH's own web site listing of communities. My calling BS on this is based purely on the flagrant falsehood of the title overlay. If they're going to lie about where it happened, to the point of making up town names, then I feel pretty comfortable saying that the rest of the piece is bogus. J. Posted by: Jay Tea at October 21, 2005 05:52 PM Well, your logic could be a bit presumptuous. You might be right, but there's always the possibility that some script supervisor made a mistake. Call Sci Fi channel. Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 21, 2005 05:58 PM Huh. Doing a Google for "Chatsworth, NH" I get: "NEW HAMPSHIRE BALL BEARINGS But 91311 is the zip code for Chatsworth, California. A google for "CHATSWORTH NH" (no comma) comes up with a high school in Chatsworth, CA. Definitely suspicious. Posted by: Orion at October 22, 2005 07:06 PM I live at 80582 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before? Posted by: Mike Flacklestein at August 3, 2006 04:49 PM I thought that video was bogus, and after a quick double-checking, I was right: it supposedly was filmed at a lab in Chatsworth, New Hampshire. There IS NO "Chatworth, New Hampshire." We have a Chatham, but no Chatsworth. And Chatham has a population of less than 300, with town offices actually located in Center Conway, so I doubt it has any medical research laboratories. Posted by: warsaw hotels at October 5, 2006 04:43 PM |
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