Blurbs

Here are some topics I've pondered over the last week or so, and considered blogging about but never got around to doing so. The public nature of Facebook. Note: if I ever start hardcore drinking, leave the pictures off Facebook. The messy combination of Facebook with the congressional race in the "Bloody 8th" district of Indiana. I went to school with Andrea Ellsworth, and she was really nice. I also have indirect ties to Joshua Claybourn (Evansville es pequeño, no?), and he seems like an upstanding guy. What gives? China has a one-child policy, but exceptions are made for multiple child births. Wealthy couples have taken advantage of this by taking fertility drugs. Birth of twins and triplets are rising! Where can I download old episodes of Captain Planet? All the torrents seem to be inactive. Should the Danish government at least pretend to apologize for the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed? I say those cartoons are well within the limits of free speech (and actually, in context highly relevant to current international relations), but they can be taken offensively. Why not apologize and defuse the international situation a little bit? Yahoo vs Google. I started out with Hotmail/MSN. Didn't like that. Then I became a Yahooligan for a while. Then when I found the power of Google search. Then I started using gmail when it came out. And while Google is still steaming ahead, Yahoo is catching up. Yahoo bought del.icio.us (which I use to bookmark my class homepages) and flickr, which if I had a digital camera, I would probably use (Facebook's picture system is pretty nifty too though). What the heck really happened in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina?