Looking at the following article:
Indian-born scientist developing coated DVD’s that can make hard disks obsolete
..: I find my self thinking that hard drives wouldn’t be obsolete, but OS installations might be. Already there are many LiveCD installations of Linux and Windows, which don’t require a Hard Drive at all, but simply boot to the CD/DVD… With more sophisitication and personalization options (there are already setups where you can store personalizations on a USB flash drive or something) I think the idea of a static state OS would be very appealing.
I don’t often randomly surf for people… but this guy [Matthias Wandel] wrote some software I was using (for the first time, about 5-6 years ago) [jhead] and I randomly browsed over to his personal site and thought he was really (really) cool… Neat projects and inventions, done both logically and creatively (a combination I admire and strive for, though which I tend to exhibit to a lessor degree).
he came up in conversation again today and so I found his site again and found this page (among others) which just makes me go all warm and fuzzy:
I had written a decent post about freedom of speech and that it is mostly a facade, but even that facade is wonderful… but the post got lost in the ether (more accuratly, my computer rebooted for unknown reasons).
Anyway, here are the news articles prompting the previous post:
Secret government or a free press?{#r-1_0} “flag desecration is an unacceptable form of political protest” — U.S. SEN. BILL FRIST » Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment And I ended up reading a chain of wikipedia articles which went something like:
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
This is a great article, full of well cited and reasoned points… pointing towards a conclusion which may well get you branded as a conspiracy theorist… but still seems the most likely explanation.
According to the article: Transcendental meditation good for stress: study it goes a bit further than just getting relaxed…
Practicing transcendental medicine not only mellows the mind but may also calm the body’s damaging responses to stress that leads to heart disease and diabetes, researchers said on Monday.
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Meditation has been previously shown to lower blood pressure, but researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, found it also decreased heart rate variability and insulin sensitivity.