Feeling Blue, IBM Courting Drupal
October 25, 2006
From cmswire.com:
Hot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM’s DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that.
A Free Press
October 25, 2006
Kieth Olberman has some guts. Watch him take on the Republicans. This guy is going to get fired.
Get it straight: Foley is the victim
October 17, 2006
From CNN:
Richman said Foley decided to be open about his alleged abuse and struggle with alcoholism as a form of therapy.
“This is all part of the healing process for Mark Foley,” said Richman. “He thinks it’s important to go ahead and bring this information out and hope and encourage other people who have been similarly abused to go ahead and come forward.”
Richman said Foley would accept an offer of counseling from the Archdiocese of Miami.
I can’t believe the grapefruits….obviously his predatory behaviour is NOT his fault. Obviously…
655,000 war-related Iraq deaths: new study
October 10, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.
The timing of the survey’s release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it “politics.”
In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.
“Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003,” Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
The study by Burnham, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and others is to be published on the Web site of The Lancet, a medical journal.
Read the whole article.
Independent: America eating the world…
October 10, 2006
Supersize nation: how America is eating the world
300m Expected population of the United States by the end of this week
75 Life expectancy for men in the US. Women are expected to live until 80
63 Life expectancy for men in the developing world. Women are expected to live until 67
395m Projected population of the US by 2050
1,682m3 US annual water consumption per capita
633m3 The world’s annual water consumption per capita
545m3 The developing world’s annual water withdrawals per capita
5lbs Amount of waste each US resident produces per day. That compares with about 3lbs per person per day in Europe, and about 0.9-1.3lbs per person a day in the developing world
$39,710 US Gross National Income per head, 2004
$8,540 World’s GNI per head
$4,450 Developing world’s GNI per head
19.8 US carbon dioxide emissions per capita, in metric tonnes
3.9 World’s carbon dioxide emissions per head, in tonnes
1.8 Developing world’s carbon dioxide emissions per head, in tonnes
58bn Number of burgers consumed by Americans every year
54m Number of Americans who are obese
300,000 Deaths per year related to obesity
678lbs US annual paper consumption per head
115lbs The corresponding figure for the world
44lbs The figure for the developing world
204m number of vehicles on US roads
37% Percentage of the total cars in the world on America’s roads
1 in 7 Barrels of world oil supply used by US drivers
24m Number of Americans who drive SUVs
7,921 US energy consumption per capita, 2001, expressed in kilograms of oil
1,631 World’s energy consumption per capita, in kilograms of oil
828 Corresponding figure for the developing world
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