Lloyd Borrett – Computing – Play the Petals Around the Rose game (JavaScript)
The secret is to “google translate” the page into afrikaans, and then
into greek. Or maybe it was latin. Then divide by Pi. And add a
cheeseburger.
I am king lord of the game #4542. w00t!
The ONE Campaign | Press Releases
Live 8 is a key moment in the growing global campaign to end extreme poverty. In the USA this campaign is called ONE, and is supported by Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx, George Clooney and Penelope Cruz as well as Pat Robertson and others.
Left and right, conservative and liberal, are coming together as one on the importance of this emergency. Over 750,000 Americans have joined the campaign in the last 6 weeks with thousands more joining everyday.
Live 8 is asking Americans to join the campaign at live8live.com and
one.org, and call on President Bush to do the right thing, and get themselves to a rally in Washington DC on July 1st hosted by George Clooney, and travel on to Philly on the 2nd and then on to the historic summit in Gleneagles. This series of events will form an important week called the “Long Walk to Justice” with campaigners from across Europe converging positively and persuasively on the G8 Summit.
Bush calls report alleging prisoner abuse ‘absurd’
Associated Press
May. 31, 2005 08:40 AM
WASHINGTON- President Bush called a human rights report “absurd” for criticizing the United States’ detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said Tuesday the allegations were made by “people who hate America.” “It’s absurd. It’s an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world,” Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.
Heineken to test Light beer in Phoenix, 3 other cities
Alan Mirabella
Bloomberg News
May. 26, 2005 02:30 PM
Heineken USA said it will introduce Heineken Premium Light Lager in the U.S. in June.
The new beer will be tested in Phoenix, Dallas, Tampa and Providence,
R.I., Heineken said in a statement issued today by PR Newswire. The
White Plains, New York-based company is a unit of Heineken NV.
5/22/05 – Carrie wins according to the London Independent:
…and Simon Fuller, the pop impressario whose American Idol TV competition was won this year by Carrie Underwood
For those of you not paying attention, the finals and voting happened 2 days later and the *results* were released last night. A predetermined outcome? I *can’t* believe it, not after the 30 minute feature on her during the audition stage.
[/my biggest surprised look]
You scored 2 out of 6 possible points –
33%.
Two Yeses:
You are becoming more interesting to the government with each
affirmative answer.
The Swift Report: Foes of Evolution Set Sights on New Target: Gravity
Called the universal theory of gravity, Newton’s so-called law is taught to physics students everyday. But a growing movement of parents wants to change that. They say that Isaac Newton’s theory of acceleration and velocity is just that—a theory—and that forcing students to accept a Newtonian view of the natural world is unfair to those who don’t believe in gravity.
An accelerating movement
This small Pennsylvania town south of Harrisburg is at the center of the movement to force high school physics teachers to introduce alternative explanations of the force of gravitation. But parents here reject the claim that they’re trying to ban teachers from mentioning gravity, or the increasingly controversial Sir Isaac Newton. Rather, they say, their goal is to supplement the existing physics curriculum.
“It’s just not fair to the young men and women who attend physics classes in Dover that they learn about one theory over and over,” says curriculum improvement advocate Lorraine Dittie. “What we’d like to see is a more a balanced presentation.”
for not letting Frist f*** up the Senate, with the latest GOP powergrab of killing minority filibuster rights. Cooler heads can prevail, and this could be a way to keep the party from being overrun by the luniatic Swaggart constituency. Ironic that I would call so-called maverick McCain a cooler head, but god, I have to respect someone with the balls to say no to the spoiled brat in chief on matters of principle. I would thank Liebermann, too, but he is a DINO, like that psycho Zell Miller.
Maher’s remark ‘borders on treason,’ lawmaker says
Associated PressMay. 23, 2005 05:35 PM
WASHINGTON- A congressman says comedian Bill Maher’s comment that the U.S. military has already recruited all the “low-lying fruit” is possibly treasonous and at least grounds to cancel the show. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., takes issue with remarks on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, first aired May 13, in which Maher points out the Army missed its recruiting goal by 42 percent in April. “More people joined the Michael Jackson fan club,” Maher said. “We’ve done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit, and now we need warm bodies.” Army Reserve Pfc. England was accused of abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. “I think it borders on treason,” Bachus said. “In treason, one definition is to undermine the effort or national security of our country.” In a statement released Monday night, Maher defended his support for the American armed forces. “Anyone who knows anything about my views and has watched my show knows that I have nothing but the highest regard for the men and women serving this country around the world,” Maher said in the statement. Bachus said he was appalled after watching a rerun of the show shortly after returning from a visit to Germany, in which he met with a paralyzed American soldier in the hospital. He has since written to Time Warner, HBO’s parent company. “I don’t want (Maher) prosecuted,” Bachus said. “I want him off the air.” Numerous television stations pulled Maher’s previous show, “Politically Incorrect,” from the air in September 2001 after he argued terrorists weren’t cowards when they slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center a week earlier. Maher later apologized.
