Elainna Friendship Flower
Elainna sent me a friendship flower. Awwwww…. thank you. It’s a script from Anita VandenEshof’s site, so if you can’t see the flower, it’s because you have scripts turned off in your browser settings.
Saturday Laurie Anderson Video
I think I’m out of Laurie Anderson’s PSAs, so I’m moving on to other Anderson videos for the Saturday post. This one is “Mach 20,” about proportional speed and information-carrying vehicles… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SirOxIeuNDE[/youtube] Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose?
Serial Child Predator JW Walks
A Jehovah’s Witness pedophile elder (called an “evil monster” by his own sister) was spared prison today. Michael Porter, 38, of Barnet, north London, admitted to abusing his position of trust, and was convicted of 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on children, including one on an 18-month-old baby. “He abused dozens of children and even a baby. But he’s still free.” JWs are discouraged from reporting abuse to police because they are told that all worldly authorities…
VirusHead Thoughtful Blogger Award
I’ve been awarded the “Thoughtful Blogger Award” by Jolly Roger at Reconstitution 2.0. JR said the most lovely thing: Virus Head is one of the most gracious people I’ve encountered in my years of blogging. She has a gentle patience that almost makes me feel bad for the chainsaw approach I take to some of my more notable commenters. I DON’T feel bad, of course, but seeing her way stops me dead in my tracks from time to time. For…
Interesting Wikipedia Edits – Anonymous No More
Leave to someone working in theoretical neurobiology and
Adobe Semaphore Pynchon
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message. Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization. Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an optical telegraph that conveyed information via visual signals – towers with blades, shutters, flags and so on. semaphore I wonder to what extent the Adobe…