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| Some men are just SOOOO stupid |
[Feb. 29., 2012|08:03 pm] |
SAN DIEGOA sports anchor in San Diego will have some extra time to think about his next story after being suspended one week for comments made on the air about NASCAR driver Danica Patrick. KSWB-TV anchor Ross Shimabuku landed in hot water with station executives after saying he would describe the female racing star with a word that "starts with a B and it's not beautiful." The comment came last week as the anchor discussed a clip of Patrick talking to reporters ahead of the Daytona 500. "Danica Patrick is such a pretty girl, and she makes a lot of money in sponsorships because of it. But what's not attractive is that she's sexy and she knows it," Shimabuku said. The station then aired footage of a Patrick interview, in which she asked, "I don't quite understand why, when you're referring to a girl — a female athlete in particular — that you have to use the word 'sexy.' Is there any other word you can use to describe me?"  See the best shots from Daytona "Oh, I got a few words," Shimabuku said as the action returned to the studio. "Starts with a B and it's not beautiful." Shimabuku was red-flagged one week without pay for the on-air comments, KSWB-TV acknowledged Tuesday via its Twitter account. Shimabuku issued a statement saying, "I truly apologize if I offended anyone by those comments. "They were not meant to be an attack on Danica. I think she's great for the sport." |
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| apparently basic science doesn't pay enough. |
[Feb. 23., 2012|02:10 pm] |
I was skeptical of the neutrino speed claims. Turns out, probably they screwed up.
The interesting thing is just how sophomoric the mistakes were.
from NY Times:
"In a detailed scrutiny of the experiment, CERN, which runs a particle-smashing machine called the Large Hadron Collider, found two problems with its equipment that could have affected its measurements. "One is an electronic component that marked the exact times for GPS measurements. (The experiment requires such precise measurements of time and distance that even continental drift is taken into account.) The component was “clearly out of its specifications,” said Dario Autiero, a physicist who is the spokesman for the experiment. "However, that error would have sped up the neutrinos even more. "The second potential error is in the fiber-optic cabling that carried the GPS data five miles to the underground detector. The investigation discovered that for dimmer light pulses, the circuit receiving the data introduced delay — up to 60 billionths of a second — that could bring the neutrinos’ speed back under the speed of light. The circuit has now been fixed."
Not knowing about propagation delays in fiber optics? What Academic Rock did these scientists crawl out from under?
And using GPS? What the fuck?! GPS is nowhere near accurate enough to do anything of this sort! |
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[Feb. 8., 2012|02:02 pm] |
http://gizmodo.com/5453042/open-letter-from-ok-go-regarding-non+embeddable-youtube-videos
"Let's take a wider view for a second. What we're really talking about here is the shift in the way we think about music. We're stuck between two worlds: the world of ten years ago, where music was privately owned in discreet little chunks (CDs), and a new one that seems to be emerging, where music is universally publicly accessible. The thing is, only one of these worlds has a (somewhat) stable system in place for funding music and all of its associated nuts-and-bolts logistics, and, even if it were possible, none of us would willingly return to that world. Aside from the smug assholes who ran labels, who'd want a system where a handful of corporate overlords shove crap down our throats? All the same, if music is going to be more than a hobby, someone, literally, has to pay the piper. So we've got this ridiculous situation where the machinery of the old system is frantically trying to contort and reshape and rewire itself to run without actually selling music. It's like a car trying to figure out how to run without gas, or a fish trying to learn to breath air." |
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