Monday, June 23, 2008

Monday before the show

Telecom immunity? Enron loophole? wtf?


|politics|

MoveOn To Obama: Keep Your Word, Filibuster Telecom Immunity (huffingtonpost.com)

Closing Enron Loophole Would Drop Oil Prices 25% - 50% Overnight (pensitoreview.com)

Obama calls to Close the 'Enron Loophole', that is contributing to high gasoline prices, McCain opposes (firstread.msnbc.msn.com)

KILL EVERYBODY: American soldier exposes US policy in Iraq (francoistremblay.wordpress.com)

NBC, CBS, ABC: Coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year” 181 weekday minutes, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007, FOX :“The violence itself is not the story anymore” (nytimes.com)

Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Obama's Going To Win' (huffingtonpost.com)

The ACLU is teaming up with supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to pressure Congress on the surveillance law; the effort is calling itself Strange Bedfellows. (rawstory.com)

Why the American People Were So Easily Bamboozled by the Bush Admin to put a Christian Army in the Middle of the Muslim Middle East (juancole.com)

CIA have been detaining children - Why am I unaware of this? & Why am I not surprised? (theage.com.au)


|science|

95 minutes of stomach-turning speciesism (video.google.com)

5 amazing feats of animal intelligence (scienceblogs.com)

Google starts a new space race (cnn.com)

Martian Skies (boston.com)

Will Discovery of Mars Water Lead to Terraforming? (dailygalaxy.com)

Ion Microprobe Technology Reveals Earth was Habitable 4.3 Billion Years Ago (dailygalaxy.com)

Scientists fix bugs in our understanding of evolution (geneticarchaeology.com)

MIT students develop revolutionary solar dish that is hot enough to melt steel (dailytech.com)

Behold: a galaxy suspended in a glass cube. (livingworld.net)

"Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by eigenfactor. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields." (eigenfactor.org)


|environment|

Revolution in Hydrogen Cars - 650 Miles Per Tank (gas2.org)

Rapid changes in earth's core affecting magnetic field discovered (aurmoth.blogspot.com)

Study: North American climate changed virtually overnight (greendaily.com)

Sea of Trash - Pollution in the World's Oceans (nytimes.com)

Glass Breakthrough May Lead to New Sustainable Materials (treehugger.com)

White House exerts executive privilege to hide global warming documents (thinkprogress.org)




|fun/geek|
George Carlin has died. (msnbc.msn.com)

Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them (wired.com)

15 Tree Houses Better Than Your House (weburbanist.com)

Want to trick your brain? Check this out! (5min.com)