Note to Politicians -- Singing Can Be Dangerous
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One of Britain&#39;s top government ministers, under fire over allegations he fast-tracked a visa for his former lover&#39;s nanny, may have made a fatal mistake -- breaking into song.
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Eating while driving could be more dangerous than you thought.
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One of Britain's top government ministers, under fire over allegations he fast-tracked a visa for his former lover's nanny, may have made a fatal mistake -- breaking into song.
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New lyrics proposed for Spain's national  anthem "stink," according to a prominent politician, and the  country's athletes may have to keep singing "la la la" for a  while longer in the winner's circle.
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Most of what Chris Matthews says is mindless trash, but today he pulled out a great analogy immediately after Ted Kennedy's stirring endorsement of Obama. He compared Hillary Clinton to the character Salieri in the movie Amadeus. Until Mozart came along he was the leading composer in Vienna, but he was just a workman, a technician. Mozart had inspiration, feeling, the spirit. Salieri, even though he lived a long life and Mozart died young, is a footnote to Mozart's lasting greatness. Matthews nailed it.  Maybe this makes up for his calling the voters of New Hampshire racists because he and every other pundit read the polling data wrong.
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Science & environment: Governments should have secured 'robust' measures to prevent environmental damage, MPs say
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Critics of a copyright proposal in Australia are warning that serious penalties could result from the use of iPod music players and video-sharing sites like YouTube, even if all you're doing is showing yourself singing along to your favorite song.
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There have been signs of danger he has read about, warnings of trouble told to him.
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By Dave Helling, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 11--Want to see John Edwards working on his hair -- for two minutes? It's a mouse click away.   How about Hillary Rodham Clinton warbling the national anthem? Two million ears have already suffered through that.
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While politicians decry negative advertising and personal attacks, the bottom line is that such tactics often work.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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A homegrown YouTube singing sensation isn't all organic ... but don't panic.
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls:
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An expert on celebrity suicide copycats discusses the potentially devastating mistakes the media can make when covering the issue, and what families can do to protect those at risk.
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A case in which being too buff can lead to a serious problem.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.