|politics|
Bush surrenders (reuters.com)
Obama picks Joe Biden for VP (cnn.com)
The Russian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to officially recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (abc.net.au)
The Real Competition Behind the Olympic Games was between democratic capitalism and authoritarian capitalism. ~ Robert Reich (rgemonitor.com)
We had 55 times more military soldiers in the first Gulf War than contractors. In the current Iraq war, the ratio's 1:1. (economist.com)
It's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition. (salon.com)
Russia Capitalizes on Bush's New World Disorder (spiegel.de)
Syria says it’s ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic (russiatoday.com)
The Traditional Media is Trying to Destroy Obama's Candidacy...If you want to know why Obama's numbers are falling then all you need to do is to turn on any cable network news and listen for awhile. (dailykos.com)
Obama's Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them (linuxjournal.com)
|environment|
Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels (popularmechanics.com)I cut two fillets out of it and then opened it’s stomach. It was full of plastic. A dozen large fragments, and nothing else, filled the tiny stomach to capacity (junkraft.blogspot.com)
Coal company CEO: ‘Black is the new green.’ (thinkprogress.org)
50% of Food Grown is Wasted (celsias.com)
Arsenic in U.S. Public Drinking Water Linked to Diabetes, Scientists Say (bloomberg.com)
Sweeteners: sugar, sucralose, aspartame, stevia, (watershedsentinel.ca)
a malicious little bill – curiously numbered H.R. 6666 – to block the regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (switchboard.nrdc.org)
A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves—some underwater—have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, archaeologists announced last week. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
|science|
The first particles have been injected into the biggest atom smasher on the planet, marking the start of the countdown to probing the secrets of the universe. (telegraph.co.uk)This gave me the shivers: Scientist confirms Global Warming's affects (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Silicon Brain: 10,000 simulated neurons on 8192 processors (bluebrain.epfl.ch)
We are indeed what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world. (time-less-image-blog.com)
An end to spaghetti power cables - Wireless power (news.bbc.co.uk)
The planet Mars enters the '90s with it's new web cam (arsgeek.com)
How To See In Four Dimensions (sciencenews.org)
Booze Kills, Pot Doesn't (alternet.org)
5 Really Weird Things About Water (neatorama.com)
|economics|
Ignore That Logo Under the Tape! (wsj.com)The Fed handed out $1 trillion in emergency loans to banks in 12 months. Where did that money come from and how fucked are the banks? (bloomberg.com)
China Expects Adequate Compensation for the Failure of Freddie and Fannie .... Or Else (jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com)
Caught under a mountain of Olympic debt (boston.com)
McCain Would Receive a $300,000 Tax Break Under His Proposed Tax Plan. The Average American Would Receive Only $319. (thinkprogress.org)
Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers - US Government Solves the Illegal Immigrant Problem by Crashing the Economy (infowars.com)
"The Next Credit Crunch" Our easy access to plastic is about to dry up - and with it our ability to fake living the good life. (money.cnn.com)
United State Balance Sheet / Dependence of Foreign Capital (econompicdata.blogspot.com)
|fun/geek|
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) (tbo.com)The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less (members.bellatlantic.net)
Why Google has lost its mojo -- and why you should care (computerworld.com)
Olympics Athletes' Village Is a 'Sex-Fest' (timesonline.co.uk)
50 greatest Olympic Moments (timesonline.co.uk)
I could play with this thing for hours! (zefrank.com)
Durex Global Sex Survey 2005 results. Good read. (durex.com)
What No One Wants to Know About Marijuana (erowid.org)
are people willing to live in a mega building of 2.3 sq km? Will the thought of living in a machine comfort people? (worldarchitecturenews.com)
