TalkLeft: Third Circuit: Shaving Your Head is Not a Search:
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/008669.html
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so the basic idea is if they can see it, they can test it, if it non-invasive. that seems awful close to, if we see it, we own it’…. so our public presentation is searchable in its entirety?

Living Free and Easy:
Kiss those utility bills goodbye. Well, maybe. If you live in a sunny — but not humid — area, you may be able to live in a zero-energy home. By John Gartner.

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this should make the bushies and the oil barons very nervous, expect regulations.

Genius for hire:
So you’ve been looking and looking for a job and not getting hired. You’ve started to wonder if it’s the way you look or–horrors!–smell.

Take heart.

Clearly the problem is that you are just too darned intelligent for your own good.

World’s cleverest woman can’t find a job
….Bulgarian Daniela Simidchieva, a mother of three, has five Masters Degrees and an IQ of almost 200. She’s listed by the country’s Mensa office as the world’s cleverest but despite sending off hundreds of applications she still hasn’t found a job. Her IQ is the same as that of chemist Marie Curie who was the first person to win the Noble Prize twice but cannot even get a cleaning job….

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i spectulate that there might be other issues involved than intelligence in this case…..

More Reasons to Shop With Cash:
Shopping with credit cards is more likely to land you in a database. Sounds to us like it’s time to revert to cash. [link via Kevin Drum}…

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more and more, i’m thinking this is my direction, cash and carry.

Italian university rectors sign Berlin Declaration:

VDARE.com: 11/05/04 – An Election That Will Live In Infamy:
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/041105_infamy.htm

sure they are conservative…. but at least they know right from wrong…..

Academia resources:

Paul W. Schleck has collected a fine list of resources about academia generally and grad school in particular, including quite a few things I hadn’t seen before. Worth checking out.

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dorothea points to some interesting notes on academia… i like the argument on how and why universities and others create the idea of the labor shortage in science and engineering.

Protech Extreme Bag:
Ultra-lightweigth waterproof sleeping bag

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yes…. this could be handy.