Category — General

FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Access for Plan B for Women 18 and Older–Prescription Remains Required for Those 17 and Under:
FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Access
for Plan B for Women 18 and Older
Prescription Remains Required for Those 17 and Under

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It is about time that the FDA and our current administration started treating women as adult, contributing members of our society and nota s some form of paternalized subject to be protected for their fiction of the public good

WorldForge, 50K:

worldforge hits 50k… i worked on this a long long long time ago… it seems like. i don’t think any of my additions were added, but they are still going.

Library Smut – pictures for the library voyeur in us all:
http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/hot_library_smut/

Thanks to my friend Kenneth Davis of Prosperos Books who sent me this link, I am happy to share news of a new book titled Libraries, by Candida Höfer. thenonist has done a great job of introducing the content and has some wonderful pictures scanned in. thenonist has this to say in Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut:
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some of the best library smut i’ve seen… though i have a few pictures from the Kobenhavn U. and other places….

I went for a walk this afternoon and decided to try some new food. I went to this little cuban restaurant…, I’d say on 47th street and broadway in astoria/LIC. I wanted to try the cuban sandwich. Of course, they were out of cubano, so I ordered what the person before me had which was chicken and dirty rice. so it is baked chicken with a bit of spice and some vegetables over what seems to be a pound of rice… for six bucks. The rice and beans alone , though it could be spicier, is more than enough for a meal, the chicken is tasty. Perhaps later in the week I’ll try the fish market. it too had a bunch of people in it for lunch.

Geneva Conventions Now Universal:
via Opinio Juris:

This is a landmark month in the history of international law: with the accession of the Republic of Montenegro on August 2, the 1949 Geneva Conventions have become the first international treaty in modern history to achieve universal acceptance.

The irony, of course, is that the US has re-interpreted the Geneva Conventions, especially the reach of Common Article 3, in a way that makes our copy of the convention different (and much less meaningful) than the rest of the world’s….
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the geneva conventions are a necessity… they keep war from being overly monstrous, though it frequently pushes that boundary.

personally i think the convention should be expanded to include a ban on the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons whose purpose is to maim or kill.

CPU ONLINE TRAINING TOOLKITS: Gender For Journalists: Setting the Scene:
This ‘Gender for Journalists’ toolkit is based on those training workshops. It is designed to make you aware of the areas where women are disadvantaged and the role that men can play in bringing about change. I also give guidance on information sources and websites that you can turn to and have attempted to credit the sources I have used. However if I have missed any please accept my apologies.

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gender awareness in journalism…. that would be an excellent point to push for. I hope people take advantage of this toolkit. especially the a-list bloggers should take it into account.

Scaremongers dub RFID passports as potential bomb trigger:
There’s nothing much special about RFID in this regard, other than some security “experts” trying to cash in on the hysteria. Check the video after the break, and judge for yourself whether or not RFID is going to be the hip-cool new detonation system of the decade. We’re thinking no.
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i’m thinking that if i wanted to kill someone and i knew that they had a unique radio id on them at all times that would respond within 6 meters… it might be very useful. RFID could be used to trigger bombs, just like using a credit card swipe through at a bank could be used to trigger a bomb to target a single person.

Rising college fees will cost us in time – Yahoo! News:
• Many students work, sometimes multiple jobs, thereby losing much of the texture of the college experience.
Despite these well-documented struggles, tuition and fees keep rising.

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i worked up to 4 jobs, working is good, it adds texture to the college experience.

and fees keep rising because costs keep rising, and states and the fed are not keeping up with costs. it is much like ’stamps’ the cost to send mail goes up because the cost to run the post office increases. faculty get raises, inflation raises the cost of equipment, etc. all contribute to increased fees, as do.. and this will surprise some people. when more students that go to university or college, the cost generally increase, not decrease… because we have to build more buildings and provide more services.

Monopoly Debit Card.:

Still playing with Monopoly money? That’s so, 2005. Now, you can play Monopoly with debit cards:

Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version.

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this is just so wrong…..