| |
 |
Sunday, September 17, 2006 |
This Google Earth thing is something! Most people only use it to show their house to other people, but you can also create a nice presentation of a whole area.
Recently I made one of the river Gein and the farms around it, with the spots where artists painted their canvasses. It's in Dutch, so if you can't read Dutch, it'll be double Dutch to you. Anyway, it's not really meant for Dutch people either, you know the type that has two cars, goes and gets a packet of cigarettes with the car, then drives off again to buy a lighter. No, we don't want this place to be polluted with cars. But if this doesn't put you off, do have a peek.
As we say here, the tour is meant for 'one man and a half and a horse's head'. I'll settle for two horses, a goat and a duck.
11:03:37 AM 
|
|
AlterNet: "Iraq is driving down the number of new enlistees, and in desperation recruiters are bringing in a motley mix of underage teens, foreign fighters, neo-Nazis, and ex-cons."
10:49:55 AM
|
|
LATimes: "More than 2 million California residents buy their own health policies, which some see as an increasingly important form of coverage because many employers have dropped the benefit as costs have gone up. Insurers, in a push for healthier and wealthier subscribers, view individual policies as a growth opportunity.
Outside the companies, no one tracks how often insurers cancel policies. Blue Cross, which has the biggest share of the California market, won't say. But an employee said in a deposition last year that a special department considers as many as 1,500 cases for cancellation each week in California alone. A consumer lawyer who saw Blue Cross' cancellation tally sheets described the department as a rescission factory."
It's a catch 22: if you are healthy you can get a health insurance, if you are sick, you can't. You see, health insurance is not intended to insure the health of people, but the profits of the insurance companies. Duh!
10:47:23 AM
|
|
CrooksandLiars: "In the ridiculously misplaced grief department, The Guardian UK Online reports that Australian officials suspect upset fans of late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin of mutilating stingrays."
Well, I never liked that guy. If that had been my baby he was holding standing in front of those crocodiles, I would have chucked him in the croc pool single-handedly. He courted danger and was a show-guy.
10:38:47 AM
|
|
© Copyright 2008.
|
|
|
|
|
