Month-to-month fluctuations in rates of collision claims in jurisdictions with bans didn’t change from before to after the laws were enacted. Nor did the patterns change in comparison with trends in jurisdictions that didn’t have such laws. http://gizmodo.com/5459813/handheld-cellphone-bans-dont-reduce-car-crashes-after-all Wow, imagine that, a useless law. Regardless of the situation people will do stupid stuff, a cell [...]
(CNN) — J.D. Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye” and other books, has died, according to his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/books/01/28/salinger.obit/index.html?hpt=T1
Zelda Rubinstein, the US actress best known for her role as the diminutive psychic in 1982 film Poltergeist, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 76. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=news_result…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/movies/23polanski.html?scp=2&sq=Roman%20Polanski&st=cse Of all the places to get caught it, Switzerland has to be a decent place. The people might be a bit crazy, but the place in general seems ok. Polanski will have to make cheese for a few years as punishment.
When a site like twitter goes down, backup plans aren’t available. Being out of the loop in the IT world means you become a dinosaur that much quicker. And when it’s used as an only means of communication for real data, it’s validity comes into question.
‘In a provocative look at the impact of sedentary behavior on health, a new study links time watching television to an increased risk of death.’ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405… This is another useless attack on TV. I should really go out and talk about how this is false, but 30 Rock is on tonight so I’ll do it [...]
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/01/13/2172962.aspx Pat Robertson is a douche bag. Actually that’s an insult to douche bags.
Why Twitter Will Endure http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html It’s a fad, like myspace and facebook. If anything, it might work because it’s two syllables like goo-gle or ap-ple.
