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Nothing to See Here - Novak’s Certainty Principle edition

More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog…

The Duluth City Council gets it: “We need to be more vigilant about civil liberties like free speech in times of war,” [Duluth City Councilor Russ] Stewart said. “We don’t want to give in to these terrorists by sacrificing the very things that they would take from us.” (via Brown Equals Terrorist) Why is it the Republicans, who supposedly want to get the government off our backs, are the first to pull the lever of governmental power when they want something?

I don’t pretend to really understand quantum physics in anything more than the most rudimentary of ways, but this seems pretty amazing to me. Scientists have managed to link five photons, an important step, apparently, towards creating a quantum computer. That we are at the point of actually understanding how to manipulate photons and can contemplate doing this on a massive scale… this blows me away. (Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, via Slashdot)

Oh, and from the Slashdot comments on the above item, here’s a joke:

Werner Heisenberg was pulled over…
Police Officer: Can you tell me how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I can tell you exactly where I am!

Made me laugh.

Douchebag. (NY Times) Double douchebag. (Hullabaloo)

Here’s an article about Rob Glaser and his cohorts’ attempt to revive the Professional Bowlers Association (Wired News). In my opinion, all they’ve done is to prove that attitude sells. What’s the big deal? You could do this with Checkers, or Crazy Eights, or Jenga.

How many protesters were at the Democratic Convention? Well, there are oodles at the RNC. In this New York Times article, “David Gergen, who has worked for several Republican presidents, and Bill Clinton [said,] ‘The irony is that was a convention held here because of echoes of 9/11, but it opens with echoes of Chicago and the Vietnam war.’”