Monthly Archives: December 2009

Brrr

Winnipeg Weather:

City of Winnipeg
10:05 AM CST Sunday 13 December 2009
Wind chill warning for
City of Winnipeg continued

Extreme wind chill values of minus 40 to minus 45 [centigrade. that's -40 to -49F] will continue today, tonight and most of Monday.

This is a warning that extreme wind chill conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.

Frigid Arctic air combined with brisk westerly winds will continue to produce extreme wind chill values of minus 40 to minus 45 through Monday.

At these extreme wind chill values frostbite on exposed skin may occur in less than 10 minutes.

Yow.

Pie Filter for Little Green Footballs

By request, here’s a pie filter for Little Green Footballs.

To use this, you’ll need Greasemonkey : for FireFox, for Internet Explorer - not sure if other browsers have GM support or not.

You’ll have to do some minor editing on the script itself – to add your list of targets, and optionally, to change the comment-abusing style. Again, all the stuff you need to monkey (get it?) with is clearly commented. The things you need to edit are right there at the top. It’s basically just a matter of changing the default ‘baddies’ names to the names of the people you want. You can have as many names as you want. If you need more help, feel free to ask.

To install on FireFox (not sure how to do it on other browsers, RTFM I guess): assuming you’ve installed GreaseMonkey, and installed this script (just click the download link, below), go to the Tools menu, choose GreaseMonkey / Manage User Scripts, select the script and click Edit (not sure how to do this with GM and IE). Then add your targets to the baddies array.

Download and install, if you wish.

Sexting !

OMGs, teenagers are sending each other sexy messages on their cell phones !

Back in my day, we had to use pens to write our vulgarities on these little pieces of folded paper that we called "notes", which we would slip into each other's lockers, between classes.

My parents never "talked to me" about this, probably because the practice is likely as old as writing itself.

Taxi Confidential

Newsweek:

Among the most eye-grabbing of those claims came in an official British government “ white paper” released in late September 2002 after Blair had returned from a meeting at Camp David with George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney claiming Saddam had chemical or biological weapons that could be deployed “within 45 minutes of an order to use them.” Blair said this, and other claims in the white paper based on secret intelligence, demonstrated that Saddam was a “current and serious threat to the U.K. national interest.”

“Brits 45 Mins from Doom” screamed the headline in The Sun, Britain’s largest-selling daily newspaper, after the white paper was released.

But according to Holloway, the 45 minute claim should have been regarded as questionable from the outset. According to Holloway’s paper, the claim “had originated from an émigré taxi driver on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, who had remembered an overheard … conversation in the back of his cab a full two years earlier.” According to the MP, in a footnote to the original intelligence report, a U.K. intelligence analyst had “flagged up” that specific portion of the report, which supposedly related to the readiness of Iraqi missiles, as “demonstrably untrue.” It was provably false, Holloway says, because the missiles in question, according to the MP’s information, “did not exist …The footnote said it in black and white ink.” According to Holloway, while “the truth of the matter was that the intelligence services simply did not know whether Saddam Hussein had WMD, it was equally probable that he was bluffing to maintain a credible threat against Iran.” But Holloway says a senior U.K.intelligence official told him: “There was no appetite in government to hear that.”

Bombs away.