Notes from the Surf

3D morphable model face animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA
A bit boring, a bit scary, and a bit fascinating fast forwarded to the last three faces.

Bizarre newt uses ribs as weapons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8212000/8212623.stm
"When attacked, the Spanish ribbed newt pushes out its ribs until they pierce through its body, exposing a row of bones that act like poisonous barbs."

Calvin and Hobbes: You're Working on Your Report Already?
http://imgur.com/Qpoth.png
"Mom says the pills must be working."

Congress Deadlocked Over How To Not Provide Health Care
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/congress_deadlocked_over_how_to?
"the goal here is not to push through some watered-down bill that only denies health care to a few Americans here and a few Americans there. The goal is to recognize that all Americans have a God-given right to proper medical attention and then make sure there's no chance in hell that ever happens."

Lou Dobbs Compares Health Care in US and Denmark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQj0tL-AjU
"Health care costs in Denmark are half of those in the United States... They don't need malpractice insurance. Nobody ever talks about defensive medicine... 90% of Danes said they were satisfied with their health care."

Nonprofit nursing homes provide better care, major study finds
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/august/nonprofit_nursing_ho.php
Of the 82 studies of tens of thousands of nursings homes, mostly in the US, 49% of the studies favored nonprofits, 4% favored for-profits, 47% were less consistent. Nonprofits tended to have less bedsores and use of physical restraints. "Systematic reviews of the evidence have previously shown higher death rates in for-profit versus nonprofit hospitals, and in for-profit versus nonprofit dialysis facilities."

Redacted Excerpts of CIA Interrogations
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/24/ig_report/
if anything else happens in the United States, "We're going to kill your children."

'Hundreds of Hondurans brutally beaten by police'
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/world/Hundreds-of-Hondurans-brutally-beaten-by-police
"A Chilean photojournalist said that about 20 police surrounded him, demanded his camera and beat him when he refused to give it up."

Aleksei Etmanov's visit to Brazil
http://socialistworld.net/eng/2009/08/1801.html
"he saw that the conditions of car workers there were significantly better than those on Russia. He also saw how trade unionists participated in political struggle."

Matthew 25:31-46 (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXrjtkyn9Eo
"Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?"