…George W. Bush comes across as a voice of reason (or when viewed through the skewed prism of Election 2010, a terrorist sympathizer). Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We’ve just had a wide-ranging discussion on the matter at hand. Like the good folks standing with me, the American people were appalled and [...]
Big Brother loses one, ‘Jailbreaking’ iPhones legal, not felony
Apple loses bid to criminalize iPhone jailbreaking – Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179694/Apple_loses_bid_to_criminalize_iPhone_jailbreaking – “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made [...]
The Latest Bit of Evidence To Be Dismissed by 40% of the American populace….
…. Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute last month discovered another striking instance of human genetic change. Among Tibetans, they found, a set of genes evolved to cope with low oxygen levels as recently as 3,000 years ago. This, if confirmed, would be the most recent known instance of human evolution. [full story] The difficulty [...]
I like the part at the end, where they just roar at one another.
And yes, I did lol a little to myself.
I’ve been using one of these for years
I hadn’t realized this technology had come so far. This makes a few scenes in Mission Impossible seem pretty dang probable.
Bringing an Asteroid back to Earth
Here’s the sciency goodness… Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn’t get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumbled through the Earth’s atmosphere. And, of course, [...]
Street Fighter Legacy Movie
Nicely put together extended trailer-length fight film. This is a lot closer to what a cool Street Fighter movie would be like.
Austin cuts ties with Arizona over immigration crackdown
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7004482.html Austin follows L.A. against AZ.
Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm Please forward this to your “Taxed Enough Already”-party friends.
Clearing off the desktop…
…sometimes I fall behind. So to catch up, I just dump a lot of stuff with short commentary and reboot the browsers so my computer can think again. Here goes… First up is an acknowledgement of the change to Arizona law. This took away the worst of it, but I’d expect the rest to be [...]
Super Mario Crossover
This, I love this. Very well done. And the tunes are perfect.
