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provocations & observations by William Plasencia 

Where the Wild Things Are - I want to see it

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Read the New York Times review of the movie. What a stellar cast -- I had no idea.

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Microsoft debases Miami with Windows 7

By making the latest tools of technology available to the citizens of Miami, the Elevate Miami program hopes to better prepare the Greater Miami community to participate and compete in the new digital society and economy," said James Osteen, the city's assistant director of information technology.

I wonder what Osteen gets for his glowing remarks.

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Are we hardwired to be afraid of predators?

between 1990 and 2004, lions attacked 815 people in Tanzania, killing 563. Some of the victims were pulled out of bed during the night after lions forced their way inside huts.

Read the whole series of NYT columns by Olivia Judson, who is one of the most entertaining science writers I've ever read.

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Policy shifts don't mean reality shifts

Nobody in America is under the illusion that some policy shift by America is going to solve all of Mexico's problems on any timeframe, let alone one of a few years. We have a healthy recognition that problems like the drug trade and the gun trade, the unhealthy interdependence of America's desire for cheap labour...

Follow the the links to the articles cited.
And the NPR piece too.
This analogy is about Afghanistan, but its constrast with Mexico is spot on. I'd like to turn the subject on its head and ask, "What does the US do now in regard to Mexico and Latin America?"

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Autumn in Miami

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Anatomy of a Heartattack

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or an ode to diabetes.

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A Chink In Android’s Armor

The bigger issue of a general splintering of Android cross-partner may also be overblown. As I said above, the carriers are rushing to get devices to market by end of year, and they are pushing developers to ensure that their apps work. In most cases the test devices developers get aren’t running final software, and so the final devices at launch may not have these problems.

Android seemed to have all the makings of being a strong competitor to Apple and its iPhone. But is it all that?

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Review of Mad Men, Wee Small Hours - Tuned In

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The "Wee Small Hours" was an episode of Mad Men about characters demanding...about the exercise of power and the expectations of privilege. Those demands, and the repercussions on those who failed to meet them

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A Total Eclipse of the Heart

"Physicist wants to test Hyperdrive Propulsion in Large Hadron
Collider - Mankind may soon be on its way to the stars at near-light
speeds."
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/11/physicist-wants-to-test-hyperdrive-propuls...

Funny graphic to go along with this post.

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I loved this poem, and this commercial puts it to good use

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the
seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

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