Friday, July 1, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, July 1, 2011)
(1)- BEWARE OF PERFECTION -- Nick Bostrom directs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He talks about existential risks, genetic enhancements and of ethical discourses about technological progress.

(2)- WHAT HAPPENED? -- Many people wondered aloud whether the system had failed both the suspect and the victim. How had Ms. Moulton ended up alone in a home with a psychotic man who had a history of violence and was off his medication?

(3)- THE NEW REPUBLICAN -- This new strain of Republican is one neither Wisconsin nor the United States, has ever seen…New Republicans are corporate wrecking crews, with sledgehammer, a piece of legislation and a command to “make it fit.”

(4)- NEW AL QUAEDA BOSS -– Here is a 2002 New Yorker profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden’s #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda. “We are not sorry, we are not sorry for what we have done for our religion.”

(5)- ANTISQUIRREL STUFF -- Retiree Beverlee Nelson wants to tend her garden and make apricot jam. But squirrels keep ruining the fruit, and nothing she's done to stop them has worked.

(6)- McCARTNEY BLAMES LENNON -- "Me, George and Ringo said, 'Does this have to be final?... or can we think about this tomorrow?' "But John was off with Yoko saying, 'No, no, it's great -- I feel a release,' and all that. So that was kind of final."

(7)- BACHMANN AND HER MONEY BLURTS -- The money blurt is a close cousin to a technique called the “money bomb,” in which a campaign or its supporters designate a specific day or time to raise a vast amount of cash and generate publicity.

(8)- NEXT STOP -- It's got nine bars, 100 beer taps, and can accommodate up to 7000 people within its walls. The Eatons Hill Hotel, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, is claiming the mantle of the biggest pub in Australia.

(9)- LOSE A LEG, GROW A LEG -- U.S. Marine Isaias Hernandez who had most of his leg muscle blown off by an enemy mortar in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

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