links for 2008-03-15

• Broken Pipeline
  An unprecedented five consecutive years of stagnant funding for the National Institutes of Health is putting America at risk—slowing the pace of medical advances, risking the future health of Americans, discouraging our best and brightest researchers, a
  (tags: health medicine budget US Bush biomedical funding stupidity wingnuts economics)
• Top aide testifies Taylor ordered soldiers to eat victims - CNN.com
  “Did Charles Taylor order you to eat people?” Griffith asked.

  “Yes, to set an example for the people to be afraid,” Marzah replied.

  (tags: Africa toread war politics news)
• Obama Is Not White and Clinton Has a Vagina (A Discussion in Two Parts): The Rude Pundit
  Yes.
  (tags: clinton obama rude+pundit)
• US Faces Severe Recession, Feldstein Says - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com
  The United States has entered a recession that could be “substantially more severe” than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research President Martin Feldstein said Friday.

  “The situation is very bad, the situation is getting worse, and th

  (tags: recession economy uh+oh)
• Bush says if younger, he would work in Afghanistan | Politics | Reuters
  This from the guy who dodged Vietnam.
  (tags: Bush stupid war wingnuts Vietnam Afghanistan)
• 10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected | FlowingData
  The above graphic shows the 10 largest data breaches which affected millions. I thought the 800,000 records thieved from UCLA a couple of years ago (that my information was unfortunately a part of) was a lot. That’s nothing compared to these.
  (tags: blog data Database datamining hacking history online security theft)

~ by SAP on 15 March 2008.