LocalHikes - Mill B North Fork Overlooks

LocalHikes - Mill B North Fork Overlooks: "Trailhead: The Mill B North Fork Trailhead is 4.4 miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon just north of the Mill B South Fork Picnic Ground.

Getting to Big Cottonwood Canyon:

Take I-215 South (freeway will become I-215 East) until you reach the 6200 South exit. Turn right onto Wasatch Boulevard, then turn left at Big Cottonwood Canyon. The intersection is clearly signed. You will see a 7-11 store to your right."

LocalHikes - Ensign Peak Trail and Overlook

LocalHikes - Ensign Peak Trail and Overlook: "Trailhead: Make your way to the State Capitol Building. Do this by traveling State Street from downtown, which will take you past the Capitol on the west side. Take the cross street either in front of or behind the Capitol complex until you reach East Capitol Blvd. Turn left and drive north through the residential area until you reach North Sandrun Drive (940 N) and turn left on that road. Drive about 1 block and the road 'forks'. In the middle of the fork is an LDS meetinghouse. Take the right fork, which runs behind the church. The trailhead is about 1/2 block further on the right hand side and is a developed, easily identifiable trailhead. (Lat:40.79185 Lon:-111.88825)"

Why Hillary Clinton makes my wife scream

Why Hillary Clinton makes my wife scream: "Hillary has become the screech on the blackboard. From first lady to Lady Macbeth."

5 rules to make your work day sane - Mar. 9, 2006: "Shirky was getting nowhere recently on an important book proposal. Until one day he found himself working on it underground, riding the R train from his home in Brooklyn to NYU's campus in Manhattan. Free from office interruptions, he experienced a breakthrough. 'Suddenly I was flying on it,' he says. 'I thought, Why get off the subway now?' He stayed on the train as it rumbled through Manhattan and into Queens. Thirty-two extra stops later (16 each way), he emerged victorious. Score: Shirky 1, temptation 0."

FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military, page 1

FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military, page 1: "Some months ago, my contacts in the defense industry had alerted me to a startling development that has escalated to the point of near-panick in nearly all corners of Government security and IT infrastructure. The very-real concern, being investigated by the FBI, is that either the Chinese government or Chinese hackers (or both) have had the benefit of undetectable back-doors into highly secure government and military computer networks for months, perhaps years. The cause: a high-number of counterfeit Cisco routers and switches installed in nearly all government networks that experienced upgrades and/or new units within the past 18 months."

Pay Day! What should I get? | BoardGameGeek Forums

Pay Day! What should I get? | BoardGameGeek Forums: "I would second the TransAmerica suggestion. I would also get the Vexation expansion (very cheap) for the game. My wife, parents and son love game. We often play 4-5 games in a sitting with variations that include random 10 cities, 8 cities, etc. It is fun, quick and has some strategy as the game rarely ends in a blowout."

Just heard what sounded like a gunshot.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: "I stick to my view that she needed double digits to have reason to stay in. Right now, she doesn't have it. But she won't leave. She will never leave. Ceding to someone younger is unthinkable to her. It's a form of death for her.

But here's what she does have: total shamelessness, and an absolute belief that she is the rightful nominee. Shamelessness: the appropriation of the message and even the words of her opponent; the portrayal of one of the most privileged and advantaged candidates in memory as an insurgent underdog; the eager embrace of the tactics - and message! - of the Rove right"

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: "It's worth recalling what this primary came to be about, because of a self-conscious decision by the Clintons to adopt the tactics and politics of the people who persecuted and hounded them in the 1990s. It was indeed in the end about smearing and labeling Obama as a far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud. That was almost all it came to be about. It was the Clintons' core message and core belief. And if anywhere would have proved its salience, it would surely have been beleaguered and depressed central and western Pennsylvania; and it would surely have worked with white ethnic voters over 50.

It did work, it seems to me. It will work, to some extent. It's valid in the sense that Rove is not stupid. But it works less and less the younger the vote is; and it is obviously losing some of its divisive salience even among the older generation. It is fading as a tool."

ABC News: Clinton on Iran: If They Attack Israel, We Could 'Obliterate Them'

ABC News: Clinton on Iran: If They Attack Israel, We Could 'Obliterate Them': "Clinton on an Iran Attack: 'Obliterate Them'

Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on 'Good Morning America' Tuesday. ABC News' Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.

'I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran,' Clinton said. 'In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.'"

ACLU joins debate about FLDS kids' custody - Salt Lake Tribune

ACLU joins debate about FLDS kids' custody - Salt Lake Tribune: "SAN ANGELO, Texas - The ACLU of Texas has joined the debate over the removal of 416 children from a polygamous sect's ranch more than two weeks ago.
And a Utah man has gathered 1,000 signatures on an online petition site from people who oppose the blanket removal of the children from the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado. That petition is on its way to Texas, said Connor Boyack, a political blogger. The petition is online at www.thepetitionsite.com
/2/free-the-innocent-flds."

Creative Loafing Atlanta | News & Views | Have you seen Jeff Mangum?

Creative Loafing Atlanta | News & Views | Have you seen Jeff Mangum?: "On a London stage in October 1998, the four members of Athens band Neutral Milk Hotel played their last show together. For nearly a year, they'd been on a grueling tour to support In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, an album that had become the darling of music critics across the country."

LDS.org - Ensign Article - God Helps the Faithful Priesthood Holder

LDS.org - Ensign Article - God Helps the Faithful Priesthood Holder: "The second part of the message you will receive as you pray for help in facing a hard assignment came to me very early Friday morning. I had prayed, as you will, about overwhelming inadequacies. The answer was very clear and very direct and really a rebuke as I prayed. “Forget yourself—start praying about the people you are to serve.” That does wonders, I can testify, to bring the Holy Ghost."

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org: "Okay, maybe this is a good idea. One person I talked to said, 'When it sells 20,000 copies we'll finally be rid of Douglas Adams.' That may be a little cynical. However, let's look at the alternatives."

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of bestselling books Blink and The Tipping Point, and is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Several years ago, on a flight from New York to California, I had the good fortune to sit next to a psychologist named Dan Gilbert. He had a shiny bald head, an irrepressible good humor, and we talked (or, more accurately, he talked) from at least the Hudson to the Rockies--and I was completely charmed. He had the wonderful quality many academics have--which is that he was interested in the kinds of questions that all of us care about but never have the time or opportunity to explore. He had also had a quality that is rare among academics. He had the ability to translate his work for people who were outside his world.

Now Gilbert has written a book about his psychological research. It is called Stumbling on Happiness, and reading it reminded me of that plane ride long ago. It is a delight to read. Gilbert is charming and funny and has a rare gift for making very complicated ideas come alive.

Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple but powerful idea. What distinguishes us as human beings from other animals is our ability to predict the future--or rather, our interest in predicting the future. We spend a great deal of our waking life imagining what it would be like to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, or taste or buy or experience some state or feeling or thing. We do that for good reasons: it is what allows us to shape our life. And it is by trying to exert some control over our futures that we attempt to be happy. But by any objective measure, we are really bad at that predictive function. We're terrible at knowing how we will feel a day or a month or year from now, and even worse at knowing what will and will not bring us that cherished happiness. Gilbert sets out to figure what that's so: why we are so terrible at something that would seem to be so extraordinarily important?

In making his case, Gilbert walks us through a series of fascinating--and in some ways troubling--facts about the way our minds work. In particular, Gilbert is interested in delineating the shortcomings of imagination. We're far too accepting of the conclusions of our imaginations. Our imaginations aren't particularly imaginative. Our imaginations are really bad at telling us how we will think when the future finally comes. And our personal experiences aren't nearly as good at correcting these errors as we might think.

I suppose that I really should go on at this point, and talk in more detail about what Gilbert means by that--and how his argument unfolds. But I feel like that might ruin the experience of reading Stumbling on Happiness. This is a psychological detective story about one of the great mysteries of our lives. If you have even the slightest curiosity about the human condition, you ought to read it. Trust me. --Malcolm Gladwell

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer: "OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC wasn't integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles. Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations. By mid-1953 the department was operating with 7,200 personnel and 74 percent of the CIA's total budget."

NPR: AP FactCheck: Obama's Connections to Ayers Tenuous

NPR: AP FactCheck: Obama's Connections to Ayers Tenuous: "But the Clinton campaign won't give up. In conference calls today, Clinton spokesman said Ayers 'political' relationship with Obama was more important than President Clinton's decision to pardon two of former Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans on terrorist related weapons charges.

Come again?

'Asked if Hillary Clinton had expressed any disagreement with her husband's actions in commuting the sentences of Rosenberg and Evans, Wolfson said only that he would ask the candidate.'"

I'm not even feeling guilty about hating Hillary Clinton any more.

gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": "What is a Web 2.0 marketing guy, anyway? Somebody who gets paid to have 'Ever-Fragmenting Conversations about Ever-Fragmenting Conversations.' Compared to tarring roofs in Texas in summer, it's not a bad job, but... Whatever.

But one hundred years from now, I'll be dead, and this website will be gone. Nobody will be talking about Web 2.0 anymore. But a wee voice tells me some of the cartoons will be still floating around, maybe online, maybe in books, maybe one or two of the originals will be hanging in private collections."

Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker

Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker: "This is far from the only thing Obama believes about religion and small-town America, as his 2004 interview with Charlie Rose and much else in his career show. Conservative propagandists like Kristol are predictably and unfairly wrapping Obama’s disastrous sentence around his neck and garroting him with it. So is Hillary Clinton, and the spectacle of her swallowing a boilermaker in a Pennsylvania bar is crass opportunism that will antagonize more voters than it charms. These days the winner is always McCain."

Randy Pausch - Last Lecture - Living Life to the Fullest - Tara Parker-Pope - New York Times

Randy Pausch - Last Lecture - Living Life to the Fullest - Tara Parker-Pope - New York Times: "Dr. Pausch said that his wife persuaded him to write the book, but that he was worried it would take too much time away from the children. Because he rode his bike every day to keep up his strength, he spoke with his co-writer, Mr. Zaslow, by phone on 53 one-hour bike rides."

Salary trend report: College faculty pay weakening in Utah, nation - Salt Lake Tribune

Salary trend report: College faculty pay weakening in Utah, nation - Salt Lake Tribune: "'Only a few of the college athletes on the field, or of the students in the stands, will find their future success in life determined by what they learned on Saturday afternoons at the game,' report author Saranna Thornton writes. 'What will count most in the decades after graduation is what they learned from their professors in the classroom.'"

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Donklephant � Blog Archive � Gore And Carter To Tell Hillary “No Mas”

Donklephant � Blog Archive � Gore And Carter To Tell Hillary “No Mas”: "DEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de gr�ce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president.

Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race.

Former president Carter and former vice-president Gore have already held high-level discussions about delivering the message that she must stand down for the good of the Democrats.

“They’re in discussions,” a source close to Carter told Scotland on Sunday. “Carter has been talking to Gore. They will act, possibly together, or in sequence.”"

'She's Got a Gun': Every picture tells a story | ajc.com

'She's Got a Gun': Every picture tells a story | ajc.com: "I was terrified at first about my gun. But once I learned the pleasure of shooting, I understood the allure of it for him.

Q: What's the allure?

A: The ability to control it and shoot it accurately. When I'm shooting at a range and have ear muffs on, I feel like I'm in this tunnel all by myself, even though there might be other people around. You have to grip it in such a way ... that when you squeeze the trigger it doesn't wiggle anywhere. That body posture is the sweet spot."

Lore Sj�berg's Alt Text: Fat Lady Sings for Geeky Time Traveler

Lore Sj�berg's Alt Text: Fat Lady Sings for Geeky Time Traveler: "This is where opera breaks down for geeks and their famously short attention spans. They get bored spending hours watching people sing about dying. I figure if I can enjoy grinding for Worn Dragonscales in Warcraft, I can sure as hell enjoy watching a busty Chilean soprano in a corset emote for a while. Plus, there were two intermissions where Dreyer's Dibs could be purchased for a merely outlandish price."

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Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion.

Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion.: "When I see people wearing Crocs, I know immediately that we have nothing in common, and that we could never be friends or have any meaningful kind of relationship. They come in every color imaginable yet look bad with every other article of clothing ever created. The only thing that goes with Crocs is social ostracism."

Shine a Light - Movie - Review - New York Times

Shine a Light - Movie - Review - New York Times: "At the heart of the gizmo, Mr. Jagger whirls, leaps, struts, wiggles his tiny hips and sashays around like an androgynous tart prowling a street corner at 3 a.m."

Scientists Find Another, More Reasonable Universe | Wired Science from Wired.com

Scientists Find Another, More Reasonable Universe | Wired Science from Wired.com: "Research funding. The public has demanded that basic science be funded at levels comparable to what is now spent on the Air Force. (The Navy budget goes to the arts.) Congress has established an endowment, overseen by the National Science Foundation, that is legally known as the Really Cool S--t Fund, and nobody complains about the Large Hadron Collider or other projects lacking immediately practical applications. When people do complain, they're sentenced to a day in the backyard with Legos, an erector set, a terrarium and a magnifying glass, and they can't come inside until they've enjoyed themselves."

Faulkner House Books - New Orleans, LA 70116

Faulkner House Books - New Orleans, LA 70116: "Expect to get lost on your way and end up asking a half-drunk english professor the way. He will be ready."

GeekList: Autism and Boardgames: Some Observations | BoardGameGeek

GeekList: Autism and Boardgames: Some Observations | BoardGameGeek: "If nonfiction is your thing, you could pick up any of the books by Temple Grandin, such as 'Thinking In Pictures' or 'Emergence: Labeled Autistic'.

If, like me, you're much more drawn to fiction, I cannot possibly give a higher recommendation to the book 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,' by Mark Haddon. It's a wonderful book and it's been widely praised by those both on and off 'the spectrum' for being one of the most realistic first-person fictional accounts of what an autistic teenager might think and feel. As well, I just plain found it to be a very emotionally moving story."

New Therapies Fight Phantom Noises of Tinnitus - New York Times

New Therapies Fight Phantom Noises of Tinnitus - New York Times

A problem ever since the q-tip incident.