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 Money had been replaced by credit in the shell game introduced by the Federal Reserve in 1913 (learcapital.com)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)