Slashdot | The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net

Slashdot | The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net… yep, they own your butt. And people call me paranoid. It would be funny if it wasn’t so funny. Luckily our governments will protect us with a user’s bill of rights. Oh, I just made another funny.

Bye Bye Salmon and Trout bots

I found out how to kill the trout/salmon bots on wikipedia.

4,500-year-old ice shelf breaks away

4,500-year-old ice shelf breaks away and Harper wants an election and the Libs play with their carbon tax and Layton takes a bus. ATTENTION PEOPLE! None of your political silliness is of any value to Canada when we’ve melted. But then again, perhaps we’ve outlived our ability to live on this planet as a species…

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

“The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared. We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf. It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic,” said Muller.

Muller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles — or 60 percent — and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.

Muller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.

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@netwoman re: reading TOS/privacy I had my RA build a TOS for songchild, and we found out they're mostly the same. Read one, read all.

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Teaching 'concept development in science' today, and am replacing paint/sponges with markers for the pendulum experiment. Living on the edge.

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I think I need to write a paper/how-to on detecting plagiarism in student assignments...