via http://twitter.com/dweinberger/status/5741683186

                                     MARY
                         Murr, have you noticed anything funny 
                         with the teletype machine this 
                         morning? I sure hope there's something 
                         wrong with it.

                                     MURRAY
                         Why?

                                     MARY
                         Because if there isn't President 
                         Ford just held up a liquor store 
                         with a water pistol.

Energy expert Paul Scheckel and Kevin discussed ways to monitor energy usage around the house. The whole-house electrical monitoring system that uses the internet to provide a "dashboard" showing electrical usage is manufactured by: eMonitor by PowerHouse Dynamics
617-454-1011

I got Dad a Grace Internet Radio for his birthday and installed it last night. If he didn't enjoy Pandora so much I would have given up. It took more than an hour. Roku took five minutes.

"Julia Child’s Kitchen. The real thing — a donation from her Cambridge, Massachusetts home. Pans. Well worn cookbooks. Stove. Cabinets. It’s set up just as she’d worked and entertained in it for decades. By kitchen standards it’s unremarkable, but that’s part of the charm. For me, there was a special attachment since, as graduate students, my wife and I lived in an attic apartment across the street from the Childs. We never ate there, but she was as genuine in person as you’d expect from her television appearances."

"Results of these studies to date give no consistent or convincing evidence of a causal relation between RF exposure and any adverse health effect. On the other hand, the studies have too many deficiencies to rule out an association. A key concern across all studies is the quality of assessment of RF exposure. Despite the ubiquity of new technologies using RFs, little is known about population exposure from RF sources and even less about the relative importance of different sources. Other cautions are that mobile phone studies to date have been able to address only relatively short lag periods, that almost no data are available on the consequences of childhood exposure, and that published data largely concentrate on a small number of outcomes, especially brain tumor and leukemia. Key words: electromagnetic fields, EMF, epidemiology, health effects, radiofrequency, RF. Environ Health Perspect 112:1741-1754 (2004) . doi:10.1289/ehp.7306 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 23 September 2004]"

"The Russert Test was a disaster because it rewarded people willing to lie unabashedly on TV. They lied because they could not truthfully defend their positions. But Russert's famed "gotcha" research couldn't catch them. Much has been said this eulogizing week about Russert's hard-working ways assembling the material in advance of the show. Old metal. When someone told a new lie on Meet the Press, such as when Dick Cheney flat-out denied he had ever said that intelligence confirmed the Al Qaeda/Iraq link, Meet the Press had no procedure for producing the contrary evidence. This would hardly have been difficult, given Google, an earpiece and a producer to do instant research. As it happened, NBC had the rebuttal to Cheney's lies in its own archives, but it remained for The Daily Show to do the research."

"User Guide for Sony KV-19TR10 / KV-19TR20 / KV-19TS10 / KV-19TS20 / KV-2027R / KV-2037RS File Size: 925 KB Download Time: 2 minutes, 31 seconds on 56Kbps modem IMPORTANT! Session cookies need to be enabled. Instructions "