Friday to go out on

Horay. Weekend.



Obama's activism defies 'elitist' label: After college, he turned down corporate jobs so he could work as a community organizer who helped, among others, workers who had lost their jobs [politics] (baltimoresun.com)

10 Debate Questions John McCain Will Never Be Asked [politics] (perrspectives.com)

Video of Obama, Hillary, and John Edwards on Colbert Report [entertainment] (primetimepolitics.com)

North American jet stream moving north 18 feet per day: "If you think about climate zones shifting northward at this rate, you can imagine squirrels keeping up. But what are oak trees going to do?" [science] (news.yahoo.com)

Why You Should Wait Until 2010 to Buy a New Car [environment] (ecogeek.org)

A car that can travel on less electricity than it takes to power a lightbulb was unveiled by its British creators in 2005 [environment] (guardian.co.uk)

Tests show BMW's hydrogen car cleans the air [technology] (crave.cnet.com)

New Plastic Bags Biodegrade in Four Months [science] (popsci.com)

Legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens has gone green with a plan to spend $10 billion to build the world's biggest wind farm. [environment] (reuters.com)

A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit [politics] (populistamerica.com)

Citigroup: $5.11 billion loss, cut 9,000 jobs, Stock goes higher. [business] (bloomberg.com)

Plants are green because the sun that keeps them alive is a type G star. If they’d evolved for a red dwarf, plants would be black... (sciam.com)

$736,000,000 U.S. Embassy completed in Iraq (msnbc.msn.com)

Researchers look at cannabinoids, genes, medicines and brain scans to find better anxiety treatments. [cogsci] (physorg.com)

Federal Medical Marijuana Bill (HR5842) Introduced by Rep. Ron Paul -- it would end DEA raids on facilities distributing medical marijuana legally under state law [politics] (norml.org)

Bill introduced in Congress to decriminalize marijuana (mpp.convio.net)

Could the Crocs fad finally be over?! [offbeat] (consumerist.com)

10 Lazy Gadgets To Help You Automate Your Weekend [gadgets] (gizmodo.com)

You may think there's little difference between sending your organic waste to a landfill site to rot and putting it in a compost box to decompose in the garden [environment] (guardian.co.uk)

9 Effective Ways to Exploit a Sudden Burst of Clarity [cogsci] (marcandangel.com)

Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development [science] (eurasianet.org)

Scientists make music into mathematical shapes [offbeat] (telegraph.co.uk)

Scientist Finds Truthiness in the 'Colbert Bump' (news.yahoo.com)