1.8% of the web visible by Google

The size of the open web is 167 terabytes; this is what Google can search. The Invisible Web is estimated at 91,000 terabytes. Check this out – the Library of Congress, in 1997, was figured to have close to 3,000 terabytes! So how much of the internet can we see....1.8% - MakeUseOf

New Google Maps Labs. - MakeUseOf

No need for evolution or Thomas Jefferson in our school system

On March 13th, 2010

• Texas conservatives make severe curriculum changes - NYTimes;Associated Press
  -They mainly decided to add more conservative beliefs about criticism of Darwin and evolution and the belief that the Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles.
• Women on the pill may live longer (by warding off some cancers) - Associated Press
• Arrested for not returning library book - ABCNews
  -Foolishness, plain foolishness.
• 12,000 Americans died from Swine Flu - NYTimes

Yellow and Papayas May Save the World, But the U.S. Postal Service Needs the Saving

On March 10th, 2010:

• Yellow Pixels Being Added to TVs to make them better -LiveScience
  Instead of the typical red, green, and blue that can reproduce billions of color, this yellow pixel will raise "the number of reproducible colors into the trillions." It would also require less intensive lighting, and therefore be more environmentally-friendly.
• RIT gets federal grant for "Library Research" - RBJ
  RIT’s Image Permanence Institute is to search for ways to lower energy consumption in the preservation of stacks, special collection, and exhibition spaces. They received $580,174.
• Pizza and soda tax - ABCNews
  Both Pennyslvania and New York are looking into a 10% increase in price to act as a tax and incentive to eat better foods.
• Papaya to fight cancer - Yahoo!
  Papaya has an anticancer effect against tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. It seems it slows the growth of tumors.
• U.S. Postal Service to be "saved" - NYTimes
  After losing 1.4 billion dollars last year and an estimated 7 billion dollars this year, a plan is being drawn to reorganize the postal service. This includes cutting more post offices (and placing them in supermarkets?...well should the government be supporting corporations....NO) and possibly cutting Saturday post.

Detroit going farm.

Objects of today, March 9th, 2010:

• Lil Wayne goes to jail for one year for having a loaded semiautomatic gun in his tour bus.
  Too right. He had no right to have a bloody semi-automatic weapon (.40 caliber); no reason at all, you may sing about being a gangsta, but you cannot be a gangsta.
  
• Osmond son suicide, supposedly due to anti-gay sentiments from his Mormon church
  Wow, Marie Osmond and Donny Osmond. You display yourselves as the biggest hypocrites of all.
• Detroit reorganizing from urban to semi-rural.
  More evidence that the U.S. auto industry is dead. A rural Detroit. Could it be possible?
• One HIV hiding spot discovered - bone marrow cells
• 15 Soda Pop Vending Machine Injuries (all men); 3 actually die. Circa 1988. - JAMA

Obama is a soda addicted, oxygen deprived fish.

In the world today...

• Global Warming strikes again....Oxygen depletion in oceans becoming rapid
• iPhone Addictive study
• Smaller condom for tweens (targeting 14 year old boys).
  Foolish....I think so.
• Obama to cut funding to save 'America's Treasures'.
  In this day and age, it seems history means nothing.
• New York State Soda Tax...an estimated one penny per ounce.
  This could be a LOT of money. Very useful, I think.

Back in Rochester...

Back in Rochester again...

Couple things I noticed:

• So Darwin still doesn't exist to some people
• All U.S. Muslims have been asked by Al-Qaeda to attack America