Better Living Through Introspection

So, I know the end of daylight savings time is coming up, but couldn’t remember the rule, so after some quick googling I found the following. The rules are changing in a couple years. Interesting, right? Kinda underlines the notion of how uselessly arbitrary this system is. But what do I know?

Currently, daylight time begins in the United States on the first Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday in October. On the first Sunday in April, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the last Sunday in October, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were recently modified with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005). Starting in March 2007, daylight time in the United States will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November[emphasis added].

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory (Motto: taking navel-gazing to a whole new level. No, not really.)

PITTSBURGH—A zombie-preparedness study, commissioned by Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy and released Monday, indicates that the city could easily succumb to a devastating zombie attack. Insufficient emergency-management-personnel training and poorly conceived undead-defense measures have left the city at great risk for all-out destruction at the hands of the living dead, according to the Zombie Preparedness Institute.

Full article on The Onion

Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most Japanese consumers can get an Internet connection that’s 16 times faster than the typical American DSL line for a mere $22 per month.

Free American Broadband! on Salon via ./

Torchwood will debut on BBC Three late next year. Created by Russell T Davies it stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack. “Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humour - the X Files meets This Life,” says Russell T Davies.

Torchwood on BBC via ./

Well, this is not the outcome I wanted, but like I said at the beginning of the season...here’s to another 87 years. (Go ahead, blame it on me.)