10.3

1) Homeless Tracking System

2) A Separate Peace

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"whatever. i've lived enough to have seen a lot of those older moments of doubt. and i don't disagree that it was 1776. or that the opinion piece is a set up for a bush apology. or that ennui only counts when rich white people feel it. and i work hard at being one of those valuable danes. but you'd have to be out to lunch to not be thinking how intractable it's becoming
every day. i love seeing the windmill farms. but i work in climatology research now. and every week i find out something new that scares the ever living jesus out of me. i've worked a lot more in politics for a couple of decades. and i'm finding more and more the social problems of the well intentioned are the biggest enemy. off the rails and unmanageable complexity are not to be blown off. infrastructure outstrips superstructure. only vanity keeps us going. we don't know what we're doing and we've just been hella lucky for longer than can be reasonably explained.
posted by 3.2.3 at 3:29 PM PST on October 28"

Yes. It's not just that Noonan is saying something is wrong.
But that she's saying _something very different_ is wrong...

3) Is There Another World In The Mirror, Case Physicist Asks

"Krauss concludes the book with a discussion of something even more exotic than the possibility of six or seven extra microscopically small extra dimensions. This involves the recent theoretical discovery that some or all of these dimensions could in fact be infinitely large and still remain hidden, a discovery that was made in part by one of Krauss' former doctoral students."

On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything

4) The Gospel According to Anne

"Rice's most daring move, though, is to try to get inside the head of a 7-year-old kid who's intermittently aware that he's also God Almighty."

Rice - Wiki

5) For a Retainer, Lavish Care by 'Boutique Doctors'

6) Study Ranks Homeland Security Dept. Lowest in Morale

'Only 3 percent said they were confident that in their department, personnel decisions were "based on merit." Fewer than 18 percent said they felt strongly that they were "held accountable for achieving results." And just 4 percent said they were sure that "creativity and innovation are rewarded."
Experts in human resources said the morale problems indicated in the survey should be of serious concern to the top officials at the department.

"It shows there is something fundamentally wrong at the organization," said Peter Cappelli, professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.'

7) N.J. Students Ordered to Take Down Blogs

NEWARK, N.J. - "A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove personal blogs from the Internet in the name of protecting them from cyberpredators"

8) Can Marijuana Chemicals Make Good Medicine?

"Cannabinoid receptors have been found in the brain, nervous system, spleen, thymus, and in various circulating immune cells."

Pot not a major cancer risk: report

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Although both marijuana and tobacco smoke are packed with cancer-causing chemicals, other qualities of marijuana seem to keep it from promoting lung cancer, according to a new report.
The difference rests in the often opposing actions of the nicotine in tobacco and the active ingredient, THC, in marijuana, says Dr. Robert Melamede of the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs."

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth

Denver Voters OK Marijuana Possession

9) Yahoo Local Events Browser (fact sheet)

10) Speaking of Great Album Covers...




"Sophisticated Swing"