{"id":389,"date":"2008-05-20T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:47:49","slug":"odd-lots-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Most people know that the New Age Millerites believe that the                 world is going to end on December 21, 2012; if that&apos;s news to                 you, here&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2008\/05\/19\/no-doomsday-in-2012\/\">a                 nice overview<\/a> of this deliciously deranged topic, courtesy                 Frank Glover.<\/li>\n<li>Several people online, in an almost offhand fashion, have indicated                 that Vista&apos;s knucklehead UAC feature is training people to click                 &#8220;Allow&#8221; automatically, <i>no matter what it&apos;s asking                 about<\/i>. That may be the single greatest design error in Vista,                 and could over time render Vista as insecure as anything that                 came before it, and certainly less secure than just working in                 an LUA under XP.<\/li>\n<li>A reader has asked me to post an entry on all magazines to which                 I have subscribed and re-upped at least once, but no longer subscribe                 to. That would be an interesting collection, and a long entry,                 but I&apos;ll try and get to it soon. One of that group that I might                 still read if I had enough time is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/\"><i>First                 Things<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I had a tin toy robot when I was six or seven, and it seems                 like most of my friends had one or two. So it was a Boomer kid-culture                 phenomenon, and one I don&apos;t see much about these days. Here&apos;s                 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/multimedia\/2008\/05\/gallery_vintage_robot?slide=1&amp;slideView=5\">a                 photo gallery from <i>Wired<\/i><\/a> with some nice shots. Most                 of my early childhood nightmares were about robots and mummies,                 which suggests that my two subconscious fears (at least according                 to one amateur Jungian friend of mine from twenty-odd years ago)                 were of death and berserk machinery. I&apos;m not so sure; that was                 what most of the cheap horror\/sf flicks I saw on Channel 7 were                 about at that time.<\/li>\n<li>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthefuture.com\/2008\/05\/pondering_fermi.html\">interesting                 article\/discussion on the Fermi Paradox<\/a>. Me? I think we really                 are alone. I don&apos;t know why just yet. If I had to guess, I&apos;d say                 that it&apos;s because imagination as a mental mechanism is rare. But                 I&apos;ve been thinking about this for thirty years and keep coming                 back to that conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>Lordy, I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/fukung.net\/v\/7431\/zegoggles.jpg\">these<\/a>                 from catalogs back in the early 60s. Why do they suggest a filk:                 Looking Through the Eyes of Badminton! (Thanks to Bishop Sam&apos;l                 Bassett for the pointer.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that the New Age Millerites believe that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012; if that&apos;s news to you, here&apos;s a nice overview of this deliciously deranged topic, courtesy Frank Glover. 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