Thursday, April 3, 2008

Thursday is Cancelled

Sad Day, MTB was cancelled. Here are some links!



American Civil Liberties Union : Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S. [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Oooooooh, so that's why Hillary won't quit. [politics] (dickmorris.com)

Hillary's List of Lies [politics] (dickmorris.com)

President Bush getting friendly reception on the current NATO summit [PIC] [politics] (spiegel.de)

John McCain only supports wars when they are started by Republicans. These three youtube videos of his views on Haiti, Bosnia and Iraq demonstrate his hypocrisy. [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? [entertainment] (guardian.co.uk)

Jimmy Carter: "..my children and their spouses are pro- Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama. As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess." [politics] (thedailyvoice.com)

I wonder why this was never reported in the US...war on drugs...yeah, right! [worldnews] (current.com)

Human DNA Found In 14,300 Year Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In The Americas [science] (sciencedaily.com)

5th-grader finds mistake at Smithsonian [science] (news.yahoo.com)

A new European cargo ship flew up to the international space station and docked Thursday, successfully delivering food, water and clothes in its orbital debut. [science] (news.yahoo.com)

How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure) [science] (sciam.com)

Boeing flies first hydrogen-powered plane! [science] (physorg.com)

Ten Facts Credit Card Companies Don’t Want You to Know [business] (discoverdebtfreedom.com)

38 Amazing Earthquake Facts [science] (earthquake.usgs.gov)

Making the Journey Toward Zero Waste [environment] (greenbiz.com)

12 Videos of Dogs Afraid of Unusual Items [entertainment] (dogguide.net)

Mirage III training in the Swiss Alps (youtube.com)

New British Coin Designs (royalmint.com)

Daily caffeine 'protects brain' [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Japanese Creative Barcodes ( pics ) [pics] (darkroastedblend.com)

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Wednesday is Obama/Gore?

Horay for the day! So it has been rumored...the dream team...Obama/Gore. Who knows? Maybe I wont have to depart from the states so soon after all....



Obama: I'd Hire Al Gore (would consider putting him in a Cabinet-level position or higher.) [politics] (salon.com)

Hillary Fired at age 27 for being a corrupt liar [politics] (hotair.com)

US Officials Intentionally Leaked Nuke Secrets To Pakistan so they Would Give Them to Iran to Justify War! [worldnews] (timesonline.co.uk)

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East [worldnews] (dmiessler.com)

Will the Arctic be the Next 'Saudi Arabia'? -New Discoveries Show 400 Billion Barrels of Oil May be Trapped Below [science] (dailygalaxy.com)

Cubans rush to buy DVD players, electric bikes as new Castro lifts sanctions (reuters.com)

"Toyota received absolutely no support -- no money, no grants -- from the Japanese government for the development of the Prius" [business] (biz.yahoo.com)

"You don't support a crackhead? What you think happens to the money from your taxes? Shit, the government's an addict, with a billion-dollar-a-week kill-brown-people habit." [entertainment] (youtube.com)

Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill [science] (wired.com)

First British human-animal hybrid embryos created by scientists [science] (guardian.co.uk)

The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class [science] (cracked.com)

Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com)

28,000 pieces of Brittish Airway luggage at Heathrow missed their flights. Not in a year, not in a month...IN ONE DAY! (telegraph.co.uk)

Banana a day... [offbeat] (bentbay.dk)

Ominous Warning? (pic) [pics] (photobasement.com)

10 awesome guitarists you really should know about [Music] (crazybrits.co.uk)



Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Tuesday is a Fool, April!

Happy B-Day Andie!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back and here are some updates:



How Did April Fools' Day Start? [offbeat] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Obama wrote the whole thing... Himself?!?! [politics] (dailykos.com)

Obama: "Clinton should keep running." Clinton: "Obama doesn't want people to vote." [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

The real harm Hillary Clinton inflicted on Bosnia. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine [politics] (slate.com)

Superdelegates Hiding from Wrath of Clintons [politics] (alternet.org)

Exposure to brand logos for just milliseconds changes the way people behave, according to research from Duke and the University of Waterloo. [cogsci] (news.com)

Bush Desecrates American Flag - He Must hate America (pic) [pics] (politicalhumor.about.com)

'Can you explain why Holland has lower marijuana user despite access being unrestricted?'. UN Drugs Chief: 'No. I refuse to answer that.' (ukcia.org)

Rep. Harman: Military woman "more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire" [politics] (alternet.org)

"The Japanese government paid for 100% of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius." [business] (msnbc.msn.com)

I used to work for one of the oldest and largest financial services companies in the world. I feel the need to take you much deeper down the rabbit hole. [business] (cryptogon.com)

Iraqi women were actually much better off under Saddam than under US occupation [politics] (alternet.org)

On June 4, 1963 JFK ended the fifty year monopoly of the Fed to issue currency, six months later he was shot and killed. [politics] (financialsense.com)

What's keeping us from Mars? Space rays, say experts [science] (reuters.com)

Sustainable Transport – how addicted to cars are we? [environment] (celsias.com)

New Habitable Planets in Space [science] (dailygalaxy.com)

The sad story of Nim: A chimp raised to think he was human and then shipped away when funds ran out. [science] (salon.com)

A hypercube rotating in 4-dimentional space- really cool (GIF) [science] (upload.wikimedia.org)

TSA piercing policy update: They'll now visually inspect your nipple rings rather than force removal. [worldnews] (theregister.co.uk)

Federal Reserve Granted Sweeping New Powers As 'Market Stability Regulator': Let The Real Looting and Pillaging Begin! [business] (biz.yahoo.com)

They claimed that either we invade Iraq, or Saddam Hussein will use WMDs. Now, they assert that either we stay in Iraq, or the terrorists will come after us here. Both claims are false. [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

Prison rape occupies a fairly odd space in our culture. It is, all at once, a cherished source of humor, a tacitly accepted form of punishment and a broadly understood human rights abuse. (latimes.com)

China Plans Steep Increase in Military Spending (nytimes.com)

Insects become fly-on-the-wall spies with tiny cameras, radio controls and microphones [science] (dailymail.co.uk)

France may have banned genetically modified food, but Mexico just approved rules to begin planting genetically modified corn [science] (reuters.com)

The Fed is just an extension of the Banking establishment; The Bear Stearn bailout proves it [business] (informationclearinghouse.info)

World's best-known protest symbol turns 50 [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: Noam Chomsky. [politics] (chomsky.info)

Extreme Evolution: This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using **gamma radiation** as a food source... [science] (unitedcats.wordpress.com)

Satellite Makes First Ever Observation Of Regionally Elevated Carbon Dioxide From Manmade Emissions [environment] (sciencedaily.com)