{"id":2875,"date":"2010-11-13T23:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T05:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2010-11-16T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T15:43:28","slug":"news-stories-the-mainstream-media-missed-111310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"News stories the mainstream media missed : 11\/13\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some news stories from this week that I think the mainstream media completely missed out on. All links are from legitimate news sources and not the fringe \/ wacko sites.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>* The next time you&#8217;re busted for sleeping in, just say you were actually very hard at work rebuilding your synaptic pathways! Scientists just figured out sleepin&#8217; helps &#8220;consolidate memories, fixing them in the brain so we can retrieve them later&#8230; new research is showing that sleep also seems to reorganize memories, picking out the emotional details and reconfiguring the memories to help you produce new and creative ideas.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-11-memories-stronger.html\">PHYSORG<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Brace yourself&#8230; I see a stamps going up to a dollar soon! The U.S. Post Office just announced they doubled their losses &#8220;in fiscal year 2010, despite cutting billions of dollars in expenses and trimming its staff.&#8221; I think the problem is the post office is fighting 2010 tech with a 1800&#8217;s mentality. So how can they update themselves to be profitable in these modern times? Off the top of my head&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They need to get into the digitization of magazine subscriptions and print periodicals so that customers have the option to read, search and archive all of their &#8220;paper&#8221; mail in a secure online account. (As a bonus, resell the high-quality digitized copies back to the magazine vendors for their own redistribution purposes.)<\/li>\n<li>Get into the &#8220;app&#8221; stores of\u00a0 iPhone and Andriod and offer a take-a-photo-and-send-it-through-the-regular-mail service (or just buy one of the dozens of apps that already do this). As a bonus, tie into Walgreens, Sams, Target and WalMart to have a copy of the postcard printed at a local photo printing location as well.<\/li>\n<li>Setup a secure email confirmation service that has the US governments&#8217; seal of approval on it. I&#8217;m thinking something like the &#8220;e-cards&#8221; from a few years ago, where you send an email to a &#8220;certified&#8221; USPS site and the recipient &#8220;picks it up&#8221;. The USPS would track the IP address of the sender and recipient, keep all the tech info on file, and make the output court-friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Setup something like a &#8220;USPS micropayment&#8221; service for internet transactions, where customers can make little transactions online (.10 cents, .50 cents, etc) in exchange for a bill at the end of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and one more thing they can do&#8230; quit with the constant catalogs I&#8217;m getting in the mail that say how <em>wonderful<\/em> they are and how <em>spiffy<\/em> everything they do is. [<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/11\/12\/news\/economy\/postal_service\/index.htm?hpt=T2\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Wanna&#8217; know another way you can tell someone is lying to you? They start an answer to you with &#8220;Well&#8221;. It&#8217;s actually scary how many times this happens. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/let-their-words-do-the-talking\/201011\/poor-mans-polygraph-part-1\">PSYCHOLOGY TODAY<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Oh Danny boy, the banks, the banks are failin&#8217;&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,728582,00.html\">SPIEGEL<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* A federal judge found warrantless cell phone tracking is unconstitutional! Dude! What&#8217;s next? Closing Guantanamo? Stopping the torture of prisoners? Ahhh, I can dream of such righteous freedom and liberty! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/technology-and-liberty\/federal-judge-finds-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking-unconstitutional\">ACLU<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The future called and said it&#8217;s really here. You can now create blood for your own transfusions from your skin cells. Science is awesome! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/8115623\/Cancer-patients-to-get-transfusions-of-blood-made-from-their-own-skin.html\">TELEGRAPH.CO.UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Have you ever heard of the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084865\/\">Victor, Victoria<\/a>&#8220;? It&#8217;s about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, all in the name of getting a part on a Broadway show. That&#8217;s kind of a goofball premise, right? Well check this out&#8230; an man engaged to be married (with millions to waste) decided he not only did not want to get married, but he really wanted to be a woman! He went through a complete sex change, then partied <em>hard<\/em> with a <em>ton<\/em> of men. In the middle of his partydom, he met a &#8220;very special&#8221; woman, and decided he really didn&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to be a woman anymore. So he went back through the sex change process to become a man again, and then <em>married<\/em> this new woman. Dude. I can&#8217;t tell if this is going to wind up on Lifetime, Sci-Fi, or the Horror channel. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-1327554\/Charles-Kane-sex-change--hated-Samantha-man-Now-hes-getting-married-So-fiancee-crazy.html\">DAILYMAIL.CO.UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, allow me to present a completely fabricated fully holographic singer. Terrifying concept. Seriously awesome high-tech. Japan. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Video #1<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bMtzNv7pqfA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video #2<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DTXO7KGHtjI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>aaaaaand Video #3<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FfuAfHnb5ns?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>OK, so if this crap exists, where are my Star Wars hologram phone calls and my R2 unit already?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I got! 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