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)

A hobby of my free time

cicadas and bugs

Friday before another weekend visit

Hello, please enjoy this brief interlude before your weekend commences.


|politics|

100+ reasons NOT to vote for McCain (with sources cited ) (kskirby.net)

Bush is Trying to PARDON HIMSELF of All War Crimes (belowgroundsurface.org)

And War Crimes for All.... (huffingtonpost.com)

Constitutional Law Expert says new FISA bill would eviscerate 4th Amendment. (msnbc.msn.com)

President Bush’s decision to ask Congress to end the federal ban on offshore drilling along much of America’s continental shelf is cruelly misleading. (nytimes.com)

U.S. offshore drilling: Fact vs. fiction (cbs4.com)

Neocons Still Busy Aggressively Rewriting Iraq War History (washingtonindependent.com)

Olbermann: "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq Oil War (barackoblogger.com)

Why is the media ignoring Kucinich's articles of impeachment? They're facist, that's why. Controlled by the same corporate interests that control both political parties. (theseminal.com)

"Bush and Cheney should not only be impeached, they ought to be jailed for what they did to this nation." - U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings (michaelmoore.com)

Most Americans are afraid to feel outrage (joebageant.com)



|science|

White Patches Found in Mars Trench Are Ice, Scientists Say (nytimes.com)

Mankind’s inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law (economist.com)

Radiation May Be Good For You, Says Study (scientificblogging.com)

Almost none of our radio transmissions could be received from further away than 2 light years (forgetomori.com)

Robots are getting cleverer. Their time has almost come (economist.com)


|environment|

It's solar power's time to shine (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)

About half the world's oxygen is being produced by tiny photosynthesising creatures called phytoplankton in the major oceans (sciencedaily.com)

China Sharply Raises Energy Prices (nytimes.com)

Remember when you were a kid and rode your bike everywhere? Maybe the time has come to relive that experience. (dailyfueleconomytip.com)

Evaluating the Cleanliness of Solar Photovoltaics Can Be Complicated (cleantechnica.com)

|fun/geek|

Morning Glory Pool. (subtire.com)

The first World Dynamic Architecture in DuBai project (youtube.com)