Adam Fields (weblog)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/121220/1/.html

‘”Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmour our vehicles?” Army Spc Thomas Wilson asked.’

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‘”You go to war with the army you have,” Mr Rumsfeld replied, saying vehicle armour manufacturers were being exhorted to crank up production. Mr Rumsfeld added that vehicle armour might not provide total protection from the perils faced by soldiers in Iraq – such as roadside bombs. “You can have all the armour in the world on a tank and it can [still] be blown up,” Mr Rumsfeld said. ‘

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4079201.stm

“Privatizing Social Security – replacing the current system, in whole or in part, with personal investment accounts – won’t do anything to strengthen the system’s finances. If anything, it will make things worse. Nonetheless, the politics of privatization depend crucially on convincing the public that the system is in imminent danger of collapse, that we must destroy Social Security in order to save it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07krugman.html

Fresh Patents – subject-specific new patent feeds.

http://www.freshpatents.com/

Hubmed – Search Pubmed, pick up a feed on all new articles matching the search.

http://www.hubmed.org/

For me, this seems like the kind of thing to use live bookmarks in firefox for instead of bloglines – you may want to follow something for a short time, then delete it.

So a I got a piece of spam this morning, with the subject line:

“Spend X’mas with 1 U lOVE !!”

And my first thought was “cheap servers!”.

Bleh.

The site’s been down for a few days, so I’m just posting this now.

They’re drawings of cartoon characters next to what their skeleton might look like.

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/character-Skeletons

Speaking of which, has anyone seen an actual Visible Frylock poster?

There’s also a mirror here, if the site’s hosed again:

http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/cartoon_skeletons/