Further fueling my fervor that nuke power is the salvation to all things from terrorism to global warming is the WaPo article from a couple weeks back saying that in hindsight, Chernobyl wasn’t exactly the end of the world:
The 600-page report found that as of the middle of this year, the accident had caused fewer than 50 deaths directly attributable to radiation, most of them among emergency workers who died in the first months after the accident …
Which isn’t so bad until you hit the part about unusable land:
The report also found that except for a nearly 20-mile exclusion zone around the reactor, radiation levels have returned to acceptable levels in many areas where land had been abandoned for fear of contamination. “By radiological criteria alone a significant part of the abandoned agricultural lands (more than 70 percent) could be returned to economic use,” the report said
Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe…
(I’ve got a backlog of links I’ve sent myself thanks to bloglines – I intend to work through the ones that still feel interesting)
Flock is vaporware right now, but says all the hip and cool stuff. Plus, they’ve got a neat minimalist web page. And a boatload of extensions for Firefox that I need to try.
Anyway, they’re introducing the “two-way web”, whatever the heck that is. More as events warrant.
Two of the most thrilling movies in the last few years, 28 Days Later… and Dawn of the Dead, are attempts at what a realistic zombie infection would look like. Now, you can see the computed possibilties of a zombie infestation and let me tell you, it can be a little daunting. I need this as a screen saver.
My conservative friends have been awfully silent about my attacks on the GOP lately (probably because they consider it a waste of energy on both sides) but I think we might reach some consensus here. Bush can’t seem to get appointees right. The postitions he fills that call for specific field experience are severly lacking but in a judiciary over-run with career holier-than-thou’s he could appoint another non-judge. (I’m not talking about Roberts, though. I think he may be…non-disastorous.)