There’s Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole But these two Marys share a lot in common—a Mother Jones investigation has found that McFate and Sapone are, in fact, the same person. And this discovery has caused the leaders of gun violence prevention organizations to conclude that for years they have been penetrated—at the […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
Nigeria takes over Ebay and eats its brain
Friday, May 9, 2008
It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay This time I contacted the Live Chat system. I explained the whole drama, and was told to go on the website and contact eBay’s security team. I did so, […] I received the following response: ?Dear eBay member, If you need help resetting your […]
Epic waste
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars – WSJ.com Mazda saw no easy way to guard against these outcomes. So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles. This after: High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace “Come on, Marty,” Habib says as they […]
More fuel/food ridiculousness
Monday, April 28, 2008
Energy Bill II could reap a bitter harvest While making practically no dent in the energy shortage, both energy bills have gone a long way to deprive America’s huge agricultural exports of the tens of billions of revenues that farm goods provided the U.S. export sector. […] Now we’re finding out that imports of oil […]
Meth country
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sierra Magazine: Welcome to Meth Country Law enforcement officers […] must wear hermetically sealed moon suits and self-contained breathing apparatuses for protection. Hazmat (hazardous-materials) teams then come in to clean up the mess. And it’s a big mess: For every pound of meth produced, between five and six pounds of highly toxic waste is generated. […]
Dot on letter ‘i’ kills two in Turkey
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
from Gizmodo That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.)
Corn sucks
Monday, April 21, 2008
Fat? Blame a Hippy So when they were looking for something to replace the preservatives in our food with that wouldn’t have a name that scares hippies, they settled on corn syrup. via Metafilter Also: Global warming rage lets global hunger grow The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car […]
The Starving Ocean
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Starving Ocean Atlantic Canada reveals what is probably the clearest evidence anywhere of the ecosystem-effects of persistent human fishing. The early 1990’s crash of the once great Canadian cod stock is held up as a global cautionary tale against fisheries mismanagement, against greedy human ‘overfishing.’ But less well known is that the story is […]
Long Bets
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Long Bets – The Arena for Accountable Predictions The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake. The Long Now Foundation furnishes the continuity to see even the longest bets through to public resolution. This […]
Asteroids
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
‘Urgent’ Alert Sounded Over New Incoming Asteroid Less than two days from […] warnings on the potential of Global weather chaos caused by Asteroid 2007 TU24’s 1.4 Lunar Distance close approach to our Earth, and which Western scientists had stated would be “… the closest approach by a known asteroid of this size or larger […]
