Friday, May 30, 2008

Friday isn't all that much

Friday night and here's a blog.


|politics|

Today, 111 countries agreed to ban cluster bombs. U.S., Russia, China and Israel refused. (cnn.com)

No one is refuting McClellan's points about using propaganda to sell the war, the failures after Katrina, or Bush authorizing the Plame leak. The White House is just trying to discredit his character. (theseminal.com)

Young Hillary Clinton (youtube.com)

Gas Prices Taking Effect: 11 Billion Less Miles Driven This March (ecomodder.com)

"I watched the Soviet Union collapse and this has given me the necessary insights to describe what the American collapse will look like." (depression2.tv)

Where did the money go in the Great Depression? The money was never there in the first place. Money had been replaced by credit in the shell game introduced by the Federal Reserve in 1913 (learcapital.com)

Credit Union vs Bank (consumersavvytips.org)

|science|

What can you see with your eyes closed? As it turns out a lot more than you might think, as the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks discovered in 2005 when he developed cancer in his right eye.

The satellites would electromagnetically beam gigawatts of solar energy back to ground-based receivers, where it would then be converted to electricity and transferred to power grids (edition.cnn.com)

Is There A Solution to the "Continent of Plastic" that Pollutes the Northern Pacific? (dailygalaxy.com)

MIT develops a mat of nanowires to soak up oil spills (labspaces.net)

A year ago, restaurants had to pay someone to haul their used fryer grease away, now the have to consider installing surveillance cameras just to keep people for stealing it. (greendaily.com)

3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science (discovermagazine.com)

|fun|

Extreme Music: Top 15 Free Music Websites That You Will Want to Visit (musicouch.com)


Perhaps the coolest animated graffitti you'll see today (blublu.org)


Is Reddit really white, male, liberal, athiest, educated and American? Probably. But let's see what we can figure out. (txstudy.org)

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Thursday can you smell the grass?

So, McClellan's book is opening up some windows to ideas that we already had....


The "McClellan Story" Is About Bush, Not Scott McClellan (theseminal.com)

CNN/ABC Reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative - Glenn Greenwald (salon.com)

8 reasons you'll rejoice when we hit $8-a-gallon gas (marketwatch.com)

Media personality "admits" pressure on Iraq reporting, McClellan "exposes" propaganda campaign, but War Crimes get a pass? (whitehouser.com)

Obama on what the first 100 days of his presidency will look like, how he’d keep America safe, & whether Hillary Clinton is ready to be President. (rd.com)

Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran (projectcensored.org)

Pelosi: "This war is a big lie. It was a lie to begin with..and it continues to be a lie" (sfgate.com)

29 Things The Obama Campaign Never Did (dailykos.com)

The Fed itself may be exhausting its $800bn (£399bn) stock of assets. While the banks are beginning to face waves of defaults on credit cards, car loans, and now corporate loans. (telegraph.co.uk)

If elected president, Barack Obama said one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while President Bush has been in office. (blogs.reuters.com)

Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in a speech today says the US is fucked to the tune of $99Trillion. That's $330,000/per person. (dallasfed.org)

How to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods ( some of which put plant manufactured pesticides in your food) (wikihow.com)

Is Internet Addiction the Socially Acceptable Drug of the 21st Century? (thecyn.com)

Fresnel Lens + Sterling Engine = Solar Engine (amazing video) (youtube.com)

Alternative plasma focus fusion company funded for $10 million, step by step description of planned process [pics], if successful in 2012 would start providing over 100 times cheaper electricity (nextbigfuture.com)

The Education Transformation of China (marginalrevolution.com)

They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. We worked day and night for eighteen years to build up our farm. Everything was destroyed in less than four hours (uruknet.de)

Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment (boingboing.net)

Judge to Dell: Dude, you're defrauding your customers! (arstechnica.com)

One of the reporters sacked by the Washington Post left a hidden message in his last story [read the first letter of every paragraph] (washingtonpost.com)

Memo To Corporate Media: Anyone Can Dress Up As An Arab Terrorist & Fake An Al-Qaeda Tape (infowars.com)

Want to Remember Everything You've Ever Learned? (wired.com)

14 Habits That Make You Fat (healthassist.net)

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Wednesday is McClellan

So, is it true?

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan Tells the Truth! (politico.com)

Is It True About Obama? (youtube.com)

Barack Obama told veterans Saturday that he can’t understand why Republican John McCain opposes legislation that would provide college scholarships to people who have served in the U.S. military. (alternet.org)

When John McCain even bothered to show up in the Senate and do his job, he voted with George Bush 100% of the time in 2008. he never deviated from Bush's position. Not once. (progressivemediausa.org)

Bush Claims More Powers Than King George III (scoop.co.nz)

President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats they used to justify the war against Iraq. (populistamerica.com)

The Pentagon has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasury that won't be easily undone by future administrations. (alternet.org)

US Weather Modification? Military documents say HAARP’s objective is to ‘induce ionospheric modifications’ to alter weather patterns and disrupt communications and radar. (theecologist.org)

Two political researchers have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website.(education.guardian.co.uk)

Hillary lies again: Bill Clinton's autobiography says he won the nomination in April, not June (huffingtonpost.com)

Amazing TED talk on why America knows less than ever about the World. Fantastic analysis (ted.com)

March Data Shows The Steepest Decrease In American Driving Ever Recorded. (cnn.com)

Bill # H.R.3835 To restore the Constitution''s checks and balances, Ron Paul (R-TX 14th) (ronpaulforum.info)

The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased violence there and in Afghanistan. (huffingtonpost.com)

World leaders are failing to tackle human rights abuses around the globe, Amnesty International says. (news.bbc.co.uk)

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to take a leave of absence or resign as he battles allegations of corruption. (news.bbc.co.uk)

New South American Union formed to counter US military and economic dominance. Front page news in the US? Hell, no. (latimes.com)

Grad Student Accidently Discovers Ultra-efficient White-Light LED (worldchanging.com)

Activists Fight to Have Chimpanzee Declared Human (bittenandbound.com)

We could have colonized Mars with the money we spent on the Iraq war -- what else could we do? (boingboing.net)

Nasal spray increases trust for strangers (schneier.com)

Monsanto and its illeffects on nature and the world we live in (aurmoth.blogspot.com)

Cost of converting entire U.S. to electric cars? Zero. (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

A green algae has been found that lives symbiotically inside cells of another species (scienceblogs.com)

Endagered Pacific Tuna: Eight Pacific Island nations have signed an agreement to stop foreign fishing fleets (greenpeace.org.uk)

Google, Chevron Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar (bloomberg.com)

No Seriously, What If Gas Cost $100 a Gallon? A Thought Experiment (theoildrum.com)

Rare African Fruit Rewires Tastebuds. Result: Flavor Tripping Parties (nytimes.com)

Though blacks are only 24 percent of New York City’s population, they committed 68.5 percent of all murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults in the city last year. (city-journal.org)

17 Tips to Survive the Jungle Labyrinth: How to survive when lost and what you should fear (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Monday, May 26, 2008

Monday is a Memorial Day

Hello, today is big reminder to everyone that bush is the First President In History To Veto Benefits For Vets



10 Things to Remember About Memorial Day (mentalfloss.com)

They Rule the World - A shadowy organization is in power, and it's made up of the very, very rich.(washingtonpost.com)

Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Controversy By Blaming Obama (huffingtonpost.com)

"We do not have a free market in money. We have a self-interested cartel. This cartel will do whatever it can to protect its lucrative monopoly over money."(news.goldseek.com)

Want Solar Power? Here's a list of utilities in the US that will help pay for your system. (solarelectricpower.org)

The Clintons are trying hard to ruin the general election for the Democratic Party (cnn.com)

'Frauds-R-Us' - The Bush Crime Family Saga(informationclearinghouse.info)

Copyright Police may seize iPods, Macs under G8 trade deal (9to5mac.com)

Monsanto is siccing their lawyers on every web page that has shown this movie. (greenpeace.org)

Clarification of China's one-child policy: a family whose child dies young can obtain a certificate to have another child. (iht.com)

Customs in Tokyo plant 142g of cannabis into passengers bag to test airport security, dog couldn't smell it and they forgot which bag it was in! (news.bbc.co.uk)

"The Future of the Internet", study by the European Commission (web2web3.blogspot.com)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the new Selsam wind turbine - plus dozens of photos (speakerfactory.net)

Scientists can now see how HIV virus is born (intology.com)

Mideast oil discovered 100 years ago today (wired.com)

The Prius Effect: giving drivers real-time miles per gallon data encourages more efficient driving habits (washingtonpost.com)

John McCain HAS ALREADY BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT - How the 2008 election will be stolen. (brasschecktv.com)

When is an apology not an apology? Linguists know and call Hillary out (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

Sweden: Image and Reality (lanekenworthy.net)

2012: No Planet X (universetoday.com)

"I apologize for this latest entry. I can't find a chimp making a face as dumb as this one" (photos-h.ak.facebook.com)

Drunk Builders & Mad Architects(darkroastedblend.com)

European State Tetris Game (Or: shock yourself with your own ignorance) (mapmsg.com)