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  1. Related News Story and Politics & Science Webs on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The US House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform has compiled a list of the W. Bush Administration's attacks on the scientific community on their Politics and Science website.

    In addition, the social psychological community has been feeling the government burn recently because the US House of Representatives passed a vocal vote on 9/9/04 to block future funding of two currently approved NIH and NIMH grants (Click here for that article). This creates an unsettling precedent allowing governing bodies to trump the peer review process. [Sigh ...]

  2. Track Changes Option on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    The "Track Changes" option is the only thing that keeps me bound to MS Word. OpenOffice.org has a track changes option for the Windows OS version, but not for Mac OS X, so far as I can tell. Since I recently switched to a mac, my only remaining option seems to be MS Word.

    As a result, I am forced to continue to suckle on the Microsoft teat. Grrr ...

    It would be fabulous if developers would consider writing a plug-in for OpenOffice or AbiWord adding a "Track Changes" option compatible with OS X ... please? :-D

  3. Signals straight to the head on The Internet Meets the Neural Net · · Score: 1

    "Where can I find out how to inject signals into my head?"

    I'll give you an example: photons, straight through the eyes. (-8