Visions of Shadow and Light

It appears that the Asian bird flu was passed from daughter to mother, killing both. Not cool. This kind of thing makes you wonder if the whacko's holed up in mountain compounds with all their AK's don't have the right idea. Listen for the outbreaks, shoot anyone who comes near your compound and stay alive.

Of course it would also help if we could just stop our children from living with the chickens under our houses...

An asteroid named after Douglas Adams - very nice!

Well almost. It has reached the point that I obviously have a beard once again, though it is not as full as it should be. Give it another couple days and I'll be back to my normal bearded self once again. Everyone can stop panicking and resume life as normal

OK, so this tidbit is just too cool! Maybe not exactly a flying saucer, but a mountain ridge 12 miles high around an entire moon!!! Geez!!

According to this article the President signed into law a provision that allows tsunami donations made in January 2005 to be a deduction on 2004 taxes.

While it is an individual's choice to donate to charity, and where to donate if they choose, but there's no doubt that the tax breaks for charitable giving have a direct impact on a lot of people.

With any luck this move will trigger an increase in charitable giving for the tsunami - further damping the claims that America is stingy when it comes to charity.

Having lots of friends using LJ, this hypothesis-fact is something to watch.

OK, the buyout has already moved to theory-fact based on this and this.

From The Edge article I mentioned earlier today:

Carlo Rovelli

“Rationality and instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this; but I do want to believe that I believe this.“