Beware of abstraction

Greetings.

Jewish date:  30 Kislew 5770 (Parashath MiqQeṣ).

Worthy causes of the day:  “School Lunch Meat Gets an 'F'”, “Obama: Don't Waver in Your Demand for a Public Option - The Petition Site”, and “Save BioGems: Take Action: Save Polar Bears”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Mercury Fillings Seem Safer over Time”
  
• “Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?”
  
• Pocket Lint:  Not news or commentary, but an interesting idea for a computer program relevant to today’s lousy economy.

Today’s weird thing is “Abstraction”.

This is actually an accurate description of the sort of stuff that goes on in modern computers.  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and happy Ḥanukkah.

Aaron