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Ratatat Music Video Made Entirely w/ Clips From 'Predator'
- This is Ratatat's music video for Mirando off their LP3 release. The entire video is made up of clips from Predator cut in various ways and is extremely cool. Basically exactly what you'd expect from these guys.
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Only In America: Son Of Undocumented Immigrant Wins Gold
- Henry Cejudo's uniquely American story started with a single mother who taught him what it meant to truly fight. His mother Nelly -- an undocumented immigrant -- moved him and his siblings several times chasing work and opportunity. Cejudo just won the freestyle wrestling Olympic gold. Today, our nation proudly called Cejudo one of our own.
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New iPhone Comes Loaded with Photos of the Girl Who Made It
- We've seen pictures from the factory coming loaded on new iPhones before, but this is the first time we've seen what appear to be intentional snapshots loaded on a new iPhone. Surprise: the person who put your iPhone together is an cute girl!
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Divals: a love story
- This is why I love Digg!
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Incredible Tree-Climbing Goats [PICS]
- Before you jump to conclusions: no, these were not created by a bored geek in Photoshop. These uncanny animals really do climb Argan trees of Morocco in search of food. Just don't stand beneath one!
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Red-Light Cameras Just Don't Work
- Red-light cameras are designed to take a picture of a car's license plate if the driver runs a red light.These cameras are popping up in city after city as officials theorize that if drivers know they're being watched, they'll be less likely to run the lights. But do they work? Or is it just another way to increase city revenue from traffic tickets
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Big Plastic Paid Off The FDA???
- When legitimate scientists have conducted studies on BPA, it is consistently linkedto obesity, developmental problems, risk for heart attack, and breast andprostate cancer. Even if there was the slightest chance that BPA was dangerous the FDA should've banned it from plastics, especially BABY BOTTLES. What could be worse for a baby ...
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Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro Writing Hobbit Themselves
- Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have officially announced that they're writing The Hobbit and its follow-up themselves. I never thought so much buzz could come from an announcement about writing, but that's what happens when it's The Hobbit! There's not a single thing to be worried about here.
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1 Block Off the Grid Rolling Out Community Solar Initiative
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The 25 Most Colorful Lakes on Earth [pics+]
- Lets explore some of Mother Nature's most colorful works. The kaleidoscope of colors presented in this series of spectacular lake images, encapsulate the incredible natural beauty of enclosed expanses of water.
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McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama - Reuters/Zogby poll
- In a sharp turnaround, Sen. John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Obama and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy. Obama's support among Democrats fell 9% this month to 74%. He slipped among Catholics, born-again Christians, women, independents. Obama's support among voters between 18 and 29 slipped 12% to 52%.
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Everyday Pollutants as Bad as Smoking
- Think smoking is bad for you? Try just breathing. Louisiana scientists have discovered a group of previously undetected air pollutants that when inhaled exposes the average person to 300 times more free radicals than that of one cigarette in a day.
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Bolt Claims 200m Gold With Record
- Jamaica's Usain Bolt added the 200m crown to his Olympic 100m title in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds in Beijing. The 21-year-old, who won the 100m title in a world record of 9.69 secs, powered past the field to cross the line and break Michael Johnson's record.
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12 Sports Cut From The Olympics
- As the Beijing Olympics wind down, so do the runs of baseball and softball as Olympic medal sports. Although the two sports won't be on the Olympic schedule for the 2012 Games in London, they won't be alone; throughout the years the IOC has slashed a number of sports from the official Olympic program.
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This new catfood tastes like crap.
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Beijing update: New protests and detentions, 6 protesters still missing.
- A quick update on previous BB posts (one, two, three) about American tech-artists and activists detained for pro-Tibet protests in Beijing. A Students for a Free Tibet spokesperson tells Boing Boing:
Everyone listed here is still missing.
- James Powderly
- Brian Conley
- Jeffrey Rae
- Jeff Goldin
- Michael Liss
- Tom Grant
They were all working in Beijing in different ways, as citizen journalists and activists. My opinion at this point is they are being held longer than other detained activists because they all had much more gear - macbooks, eee pc's, HD video cameras, digital SLR cams... standard stuff in most places, but I can imagine it raises a lot of eyebrows to the authorities in China, especially when related to protests and Tibet.
We are in active touch with the US Embassy in Bejing the the US State Department... the big deadline we are just hitting 48 hours right now, so 24 hours left until the 3 day mark.
The activists who deployed the LED banner have all already been sent home, arriving in JFK right about now.
And below, word of additional, new detentions of a Tibetan-German activist and two others from the United States. Snip from SFT announcement:
Beijing -- After intense surveillance by up to 50 plainclothes police, a Tibetan-German man and two pro-Tibet activists protested tonight near the Bird's Nest stadium. The three raised their fists in the air, unfurled a Tibetan flag, and called out "Free Tibet" at approximately 12:05 am Beijing time. A fourth Tibet activist who observed the protest was detained by police at the scene. The four were taken away in a police vehicle and their whereabouts are unknown.
The four are Tibetan-German Florien Norbu Gyanatshang, 30, American Jeremy Wells, 38, American John Watterberg, 30, and Briton Mandie McKeown, 41.
"Against all odds, a Tibetan has once again raised our outlawed national flag in Beijing tonight," said Lhadon Tethong, the Tibetan-Canadian Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet. "This action symbolises the determination and steadfast commitment of the Tibetan people and our supporters from around the world to achieve freedom and justice for six million Tibetans living under the brutal rule of the Chinese government."
Tibetans and Tibet supporters have defied the best efforts of the Chinese authorities to silence all voices of dissent during the Olympic Games, staging eight protests in Beijing over the past two weeks. The protests have ranged from technically-challenging banner hangs to a dramatic "die-in" at Tiananmen Square. Surveillance efforts by Chinese authorities increased dramatically over the past few days.
"The Chinese government is petrified of these peaceful acts of defiance simply because they represent the true feelings of Tibetans inside Tibet," said Tenzin Dorjee, Deputy Director of Students for a Free Tibet. "Our protests are a reminder to the world of the tragic reality of the Chinese government's illegitimate occupation of Tibet and the urgent need for the Chinese leadership to seek a resolution with the Tibetan people."
Previously on Boing Boing blog:
* Beijing: "Alive in Baghdad" videoblogger among US citizens detained in pro-Tibet protests
* Beijing: Five US activists detained after lighting up "Free Tibet" LED Throwies banner near Olympics site* GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest
Related episodes of Boing Boing tv:
* BBtv WORLD (Tibet): Inside Lhasa
* Vlog (Xeni): Tibet report - monks forced to participate in staged videos.
* Vlog (Xeni): Tibet's uprising and the internet
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How to watch videos while driving
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This gentleman likes to watch videos while he drives at night. He places his iPhone on his car's dashboard and watches the reflection on the windshield.
He wears a headset while he watches, but usually with just one ear bud inserted "so that I can hear the traffic and whatnot."
'It's great -- I can watch my stuff while I'm driving' (Book of Joe)
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Truck as flower bed
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MAKE: founder Dale Dougherty went to the California State Fair where he snapped the photo above. Dale writes:
Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could be transformed once rusty wrecks become warm and fuzzy, like something out of a Pixar movie.
Grass-covered truck (Makezine.com)
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How con-men make their faces look trustworthy
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Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks' trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions.
When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a set of features that seemed to engender trust. Working from those findings, they were able to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and pronounced cheekbones struck people as trustworthy, faces with low inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy.
In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and upturned mouths - and an exaggerated "untrustworthy" face looks angry - with a furrowed brow and frown. In this argument, people with "trustworthy" faces simply have, by the luck of the genetic draw, faces that look a little more cheerful to us.
Just as in other cognitive shorthands, we make these judgments quickly and unconsciously - and as a result, Oosterhof and Todorov point out, we can severely and immediately misjudge people. In reality, of course, cheekbone shape and eyebrow arc have no relationship with honesty.
Judging trustworthiness in the face (via Mind Hacks)
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LSD as therapeutic tool
- Andrew Feldmár (the Canadian psychotherapist who was denied entrance to the United State last year when a US border guard Googled his name and found a research paper in which Feldmár described two acid trips he took 1967) has an essay in the Guardian about psychedelics as a useful took in psychotherapy.
After three LSD sessions, a patient emerged from what was labelled chronic psychotic depression (she had attempted suicide three times, had been hospitalised, and given several courses of ECT, major antipsychotics and antidepressants), and was able to hold a job, derive pleasure from her days, and look forward to cultivating a varied garden of delights. She moved from cursing me for not letting her die to blessing me for the surprising freedom that opened up for her as a result of her LSD experiences. Psychotherapy, without LSD, would not have been enough, I'm afraid.
I can only hope that if new research with psychedelics proceeds in a responsible, careful and creative manner, the powers that be can begin to support and foster further research into this fascinating realm. I was 27 when I first tasted this incredible substance called LSD. Now I am 68 and for the last two years have been persona non grata in the US, because a border guard Googled my name, and found an article I wrote many years ago on entheogen-assisted psychotherapy. I hope I will be invited into the US before I die to teach professionals how to use psychedelics for the benefit of all.
Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands
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Photoshop tutorial: drawing a glass of beer
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Eren Göksel has an excellent tutorial showing you how to draw a glass of beer using Photoshop.
In this tutorial, we're going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We'll create the shiny curly glass with reflection, put some beer in it, add some bubbles, and finally we'll make the shadow and the reflections. Meanwhile, I hope you'll have some fun and learn some cool techniques too.
Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer
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Giant Yeti (real, not a hoax!)
- Screw the frozen faux Bigfoot! (Hoaxer's "apology" here at Cryptomundo.) Our pals at Gama-Go and fine artisans Ningyoushi are creating a no-holds-barred Big Yeti designer toy. Over at Vinyl Pulse, Gama-Go's Greg Long is doing a guest series of posts documenting the development. The first post is up today. From Vinyl Pulse:
The fries are really good at Custom Burger on 6th Street, but the fucking beer - Corona - is $6. That's just unconscionable. I make my way over to the table where Chris, Omar and Denise are sitting.
"This fucking beer was $6"
Nods all around. I sit down. Chris commiserates about the cost of beer in swanky-gentrifying-burger-spots and we all do a little bitching while munching on the sea-salty fries.
It's an odd feeling eating fancy fries and talking toys while watching the everyday mélange of disgusting San Francisco 6th street hobo antics occurring right out the window. Junkies, shit-stirrers, crotchety geezers, mean-ass SOMA regulars clucking and scrapping for turf.
It's like I'm submersed in a deep-sea bathysphere peering out at a nasty and hostile terrain.
I take a swig of beer.
"Ok, right. Toys."
Gama-Go's "Big Yeti," The Inception (Vinyl Pulse)
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Simple garden lights made with LEDs an mason jars
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The Evil Mad Scientists made garden party lights out of LEDs, lithium coin cell batteries, and mason jars. The result is very nice, especially when you consider how easy they are to make.
To start with, we need LEDs and lithium coin cells. One each per jar. The best kind of LED for this design is an ultrabright LED with a diffused lens so that the light cast by the LED chip goes in *every direction,* not just in the direction that the LED points (which is what you get with LEDs that have clear lenses). Having easy access, we opted for the 10 mm diffused white LEDs from here, but you can get similar LEDs elsewhere as well.
Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
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Microbattery built by viruses
- MIT researchers made progress using viruses to assemble microbatteries that are half the size of a human cell. Paula Hammond, Angela Belcher, and Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues have already used the viral assembly method to make a battery's anode and electrolyte and hope to fabricate the cathode next, resulting in a complete device that could someday power biosensors or medical implants. (Seen here is an array of the battery electrodes, each one just four micrometers in diameter. There are one million micrometers in a meter.) From the MIT News Office:
First, on a clear, rubbery material the team used a common technique called soft lithography to create a pattern of tiny posts either four or eight millionths of a meter in diameter. On top of these posts, they then deposited several layers of two polymers that together act as the solid electrolyte and battery separator.
Next came viruses that preferentially self-assemble atop the polymer layers on the posts, ultimately forming the anode. In 2006, Hammond, Belcher, Chiang and colleagues reported in Science how to do this. Specifically, they altered the virus's genes so it makes protein coats that collect molecules of cobalt oxide to form ultrathin wires -- together, the anode.
The final result: a stamp of tiny posts, each covered with layers of electrolyte and the cobalt oxide anode.
Battery assembled by viruses (MIT New Office)
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Hanako, the fish who lived to 226
- My friend Justin Ried just sent me the fascinating story of Hanako, a koi fish who apparently lived to be 226 years old. During the last decades of Hanako's life, her caretaker was Dr. Komei Koshihara, president of Nagoya Women's College. Koi Adventures has a translated transcript of a 1966 talk given by Koshihara about Hanako, who in 1977 went to the great koi pond in the sky. From Koi Adventures:
This "Hanako" is still in perfect condition and swimming about majestically in a quiet ravine decending Mt. Ontake in a short distance. She weighs 7.5 kilograms and is 70 centimeters in length. She and I are dearest friends. When I call her saying "Hanako! Hanako!" from the brink of the pond, she unhesitatingly comes swimming to my feet. If I lightly pat her on the head, she looks quite delighted. Sometimes I go so far as to take her out of the water and embrace her. At one time a person watching asked me whether I was performing a trick with the carp. Although a fish, she seems to feel that she is dearly loved, and it appears that there is some communication of feeling between us. At present my greatest pleasure is to go to my native place two or three times a month and keep company with "Hanako".
Story of Hanako (Koi Adventures)
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Wild monkey loose in Japanese subway eludes police
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A monkey is on the loose in Shibuya Station.
"It's a monkey - it's not like it did anything bad," a police spokesman said, adding that the animal was still on the loose.
The monkey was spotted hopping around by the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at about 9:40 a.m. .
It then ran downstairs to the entrance to another line, climbed up and down a pillar and ran around the ticketing machines before taking refuge on top of a train information board for two hours, a spokeswoman for railway operator Tokyu Corp said.
Monkey eludes net-wielding police at Tokyo station (via Japan Probe)
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Funny image created when two posters were taped back-to-back on supermarket window
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My kids were as amused as I was to see the image created by two posters that were taped back-to-back on a window at a supermarket.
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Cops drive 4000+ miles to arrest wrong man
- A Kentucky sheriff and deputy drove all the way to California to nab a man who had jumped bail after being charged with a misdemeanor of DWI and a minor felony of attempting to evade police. After returning from their 4100 roundtrip that included some sight-seeing and souvenir shopping, mugshot and fingerprint comparisons proved that they had picked up the wrong guy. Apparently, the man, Joel Oros III, had told them all along that he wasn't who they thought he was. From the Kentucky Enquirer:
Embarrassed by the mistake, the county swiftly put Oros on a plane back to California.
"We decided with our attorneys that the best thing to do was get him back home as quick as we could," said Butler Judge-Executive David Fields.
But the cross-country jaunt may prove to cost the county a little more than the expense of a plane ticket.
As he was being freed, Oros ran into a helpful Kentucky lawyer who agreed to sue Butler County and the state of California, if necessary, to try to get extra compensation for the 2,000 miles he rode in shackles....
Other than the handcuffs locked tightly around his wrists, Oros said he enjoyed the 30-hour ride to Kentucky -- his first chance to states outside California.
"They fed me good," he said. "They were entirely nice people."
He also said he had no problem with Gaddie and Deputy Mitchell Russ doing a little souvenir hunting along the way.
"Praise God, let them shop," Oros said.
4,100 Miles For An Arrest That Just Goes Busy (Kentucky Enquirer, thanks Rick Pescovitz!)
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Star Wars fleet week in San Francisco
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I dig this fun special effects video "documenting" San Francisco Fleet Week if the fleet were Imperial craft from Star Wars. Seen above, a Lambda-class shuttle soars past the Golden Gate Bridge. Death Star Over San Francisco (Current.com, thanks Vann Hall!)
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Cat with four ears
- Yoda is a Chicago cat with four ears. Valerie and Ted Rock found him in a local pub being "passed round by curious drinkers," hopefully not like that scene in Lynch's The Elephant Man. From the Daily Mail:
Yoda's extra 'flaps' are separate to the base of his skull, with one placed slightly behind the other.
'The vet had never seen anything like it before,' explains Valerie. 'He immediately went to the internet and found the four-eared cat in Germany...
'We have spoken with other vets in our acquaintance, and they likewise had never encountered anything like this.
Yet despite his unusual looks, Valerie is sure Yoda's behaviour - and hearing - are quite normal.
'Yoda's hearing is normal as far as we know,' says Valerie. 'People do a double take when they see him or his picture. It is great fun showing him off.
Cat with four ears (Daily Mail, thanks Shawn Connally!)
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About 150 killed leaving Madrid on Spanair flight - International Herald Tribune
- BBC NewsAbout 150 killed leaving Madrid on Spanair flightInternational Herald Tribune - 1 hour agoBy Caroline Brothers Nearly 150 people were killed Wednesday when an airliner en route to the Canary Islands swerved off the end of a runway at Madrid's airport during takeoff, Spanish officials said.Video: Plane Swerves Off Madrid Runway; 45 Dead AssociatedPressSpanair Plane Crashes in Madrid, Killing More Than 140 People BloombergThe Associated Press - Aljazeera.net - Telegraph.co.uk - AFPall 1,731 news articles
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Rep. Tubbs Jones In Critical Condition - Washington Post
- The Associated PressRep. Tubbs Jones In Critical ConditionWashington Post - 1 hour agoUPDATE 2:40 PM: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, which had also reported that Tubbs Jones had died, now says she is in critical condition and that "reports shortly after noon had reported her death, but those were denied at a 2:30 pm news conference.Ohio congresswoman Tubbs Jones hospitalized CNNOhio Congresswoman Dies New York TimesThe Associated Press - CBS News - Bloomberg - Detroit Free Pressall 561 news articles
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France shocked by Afghan deaths, questions asked - Reuters India
- France shocked by Afghan deaths, questions askedReuters India - 1 hour agoBy James Mackenzie PARIS (Reuters) - France reacted in shock on Wednesday to the death of 10 of its soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan and questions began to be asked about the country's worst military loss in 25 years.Video: Insurgents Launch Brazen Attacks in Afghanistan AssociatedPressSarkozy determined, tough on Afghan war United Press InternationalAFP - The Associated Press - BBC News - Voice of Americaall 2,028 news articles
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The Price of Doing - Wall Street Journal
- CTV.caThe Price of DoingWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoThe Morning Brief, a look at the day's biggest news, is emailed to subscribers by 7 am every business day. Sign up for the e-mail here.Video: NATO's one-sided view 'puzzles' Moscow RussiaTodayRussia warns NATO against re-equipping Georgia's military XinhuaReuters - Reuters India - CNNall 2,085 news articles
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Bush Warnes Russia: Breakaway South Ossetia, Abkhazia Are Part of ... - Voice of America
- Voice of AmericaBush Warnes Russia: Breakaway South Ossetia, Abkhazia Are Part of ...Voice of America - 36 minutes agoBy Scott Stearns US President George Bush is again warning Russia that it must not lay claim to the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Georgia Says Russia Staying, Abkhaz Seek Recognition (Update1) BloombergThe Afternoon Report Wall Street JournalInternational Herald Tribune - KXMC - The Associated Press - PRESS TVall 1,899 news articles
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Judge Denies Sen. Stevens's Request to Transfer Corruption Trial - Washington Post
- ABC NewsJudge Denies Sen. Stevens's Request to Transfer Corruption TrialWashington Post - 2 hours agoBy Del Quentin Wilber A federal judge ruled today that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) will face trial in Washington next month, denying Stevens' request to transfer the case to a court in his home state.Judge won't move Sen. Stevens' case to Alaska ReutersJudge: Stevens' Trial to Stay in DC ABC NewsThe Associated Press - AHN - CQPolitics.com - The BLTall 764 news articles
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Universities want lawmakers to consider drinking at 18 - WQAD
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Atoning for Katrina - Los Angeles Times
- BBC NewsAtoning for KatrinaLos Angeles Times - 1 hour agoToday marks his 11th visit since Hurricane Katrina lashed 140 mph winds across the Gulf Coast and provoked the worst domestic debacle of his presidency.Bush sees post-Katrina progress BBC NewsPresident Bush's Legacy in Question on Visit to Gulf Coast MarketWatchUSA Today - Washington Post - The Associated Press - The INDsiderall 254 news articles
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FDIC to offer better terms on thousands of IndyMac mortgages - MarketWatch
- FDIC to offer better terms on thousands of IndyMac mortgagesMarketWatch - 1 hour agoBy Wallace Witkowski SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Wednesday it will offer thousands of homeowners with bad IndyMac-originated mortgages better terms to rehabilitate the loans.IndyMac borrowers to get relief CNNMoney.comFDIC has rescue plan for distressed IndyMac mortgages Bizjournals.comReuters - The Associated Press - Imperial Valley News - Newsdayall 150 news articles
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Mortgage applications drop to lowest level in eight years - Bizjournals.com
- ABC NewsMortgage applications drop to lowest level in eight yearsBizjournals.com - 1 hour agoEven as housing prices drop across the country, fewer people appear close to buying a home. The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that the volume of mortgage applications fell last week to the lowest level in nearly eight years.US MBA's Mortgage Applications Index Fell 1.5% (Update1) BloombergNew low for mortgage applications BloggingStocksMarketWatch - Originator Times - The Associated Press - International Herald Tribuneall 184 news articles
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares plummet - Forbes
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares plummetForbes - 56 minutes agoBy STEPHEN BERNARD and ALAN ZIBEL 08.20.08, 3:08 PM ET NEW YORK - Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday as fears mounted that the mortgage financiers will soon need government support and any bailout ...Freddie, Fannie debt protection costs fall ReutersLast Call: Wells Fargo shares advance CNNMoney.comWall Street Journal - The Associated Press - CNBC - MarketWatchall 1,096 news articles
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Lieberman to Speak at GOP Convention - Washington Post
- Sioux City JournalLieberman to Speak at GOP ConventionWashington Post - 3 hours agoBy Perry Bacon Jr. Sen. Joe Lieberman, completing a dramatic political transformation over the last eight years, is now scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention next month, according to GOP sources.Dems: Selfish Lieberman The "Barry Bonds" Of DC CBS NewsLieberman's place in VP history MSNBCThe Associated Press - New York Times - Hartford Courant - TheDayall 473 news articles
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Rudy Giuliani will be back in the limelight for key speech at GOP ... - New York Daily News
- KGET 17Rudy Giuliani will be back in the limelight for key speech at GOP ...New York Daily News - 48 minutes agoBy DAVID SALTONSTALL Rudy Giuliani will deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention, traditionally the most high-profile gig outside of speeches by the nominee and his vice president.Rudy Giuliani to keynote GOP confab; Joe Lieberman also will speak Los Angeles TimesGiuliani named keynote speaker at GOP convention NewsdayThe Associated Press - CNN Political Ticker - Atlantic Online - MSNBCall 241 news articles
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Obama Targets Employment During Va. Visit - Washington Post
- The Associated PressObama Targets Employment During Va. VisitWashington Post - 1 hour agoBy Anita Kumar MARTINSVILLE, Va., Aug. 20 -- Sen. Barack Obama began a two-day swing through Virginia Wednesday with an invitation-only town hall meeting featuring workers who lost factory jobs here in the state's economically distressed Southside.Obama sounds populist themes in Virginia bus tour The Associated PressObama echoes Clinton 'fighter' message MSNBCABC News - Los Angeles Times - Examiner.com - The Virginian-Pilotall 288 news articles
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Intel IDF 2008: Day 1 Wrap Up - PC Magazine
- PC MagazineIntel IDF 2008: Day 1 Wrap UpPC Magazine - 1 hour agoby Cisco Cheng Instead of diving straight into the technology, the IDF 2008 commencement keynote began with Craig Barrett, chairman of the board at Intel, emphasizing the importance of education and the things the company is doing to expand its reach ...Intel Lays Out Plans for TV, Smartphone Push TechNewsWorldMeeting Intel's Future InternetNews.comZDNet - FOXBusiness - TG Daily - eFluxMediaall 384 news articles
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Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
- A People's History for the Classroom [pdf] is a high school history lesson plan/workbook based on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. The entire 124-page workbook available for free as a downloadable PDF, as part of the Zinn Education Project, supported by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. You must enter an email and agree to take a later survey to download.
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Drowning
- Can the Burmese people rescue themselves? A powerful piece by George Packer in the New Yorker on the recent history and current conditions in Burma.
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I spy with my little eye, a magpie.
- The humble magpie joins humans, apes, dolphins, and elephants in Club Self-Awareness.
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Yorktown Improved
- Artist Joseph Griffith, whose work draws from fantasy and mythology, has also turned his attention to one of America's most significant historical moments: "I painted this for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown when George Washington and the Continentals traunched the British. The county would not dignify it with a response, however, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate kindly wrote me an e-mail saying they would 'pass it along to the staff'."
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Your unborn child as produce
- Your unborn child as produce - You'll never look at chard the same way again.
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Barack Obama chooses Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President
- We have a credible lead that Barack Obama will be announcing Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President / VP.
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Latest Poll Reveals 430 New Demographics That Will Decide Election
- A recent election poll indicates vegan independents and skydiving widowers are among the groups that will have a major impact in November.
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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?
- In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that ...
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What happens when we borrow trillions to pay interest?
- Many are warning about the coming liability calamity, but the incentive of politicians is to keep pushing the problem to the future, when the government ...
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The History of Nutrition
- The concept of nutrition wasn't just an idea that popped up out of thin air. Nutrition is a concept that developed itself over many ...
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GOP Deceptions on Energy: The Little, The Big, The Hysterical
- A closer look at the Republicans' disinformation campaign on offshore drilling for oil. Where are the legitimate journalists? Who in the mainstream media has enough ...
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Leryn Franco Pics from Leryn Franco Website
- Leryn Franco has been named by many the most beautiful woman at this year's Olympics. Hard to disagree, especially after seeing these Leryn Franco ...
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Bob Barr on CNN: Run-away Gov't Spending, Taxes, and the reduction of our liberties
- Bob Barr on CNN American Morning with Kiran Chetry. Catch the video below.
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100 Best Foods for Women
- Women's health needs range from extra iron during childbearing years to calcium and vitamin D for bone health. The following list provides 100 foods ...
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My Daughter Or A Million Dollars
- Another good joke for your entertainment. I hope you enjoy it. I did.
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Goodyear to close 92 U.S. stores, cut jobs
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co said it would close 12 percent, or 92, of its company-owned U.S. stores and cut 600 full- and part-time jobs ...
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Thawing Bigfoot Reveals Costume, Big Hoax
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Gap between rich and poor 'has doubled in past 30 years'
- The gap between rich and poor in Britain has doubled over the past 30 years and is now the widest of any country in Europe ...
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Drinking-age proposal draws attacks
- Health, safety and transportation advocates denounced Tuesday a proposal by more than 100 university administrators to reconsider the legal drinking age of 21 -- contending that ...
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Bush's Dirty Little Medicare Secret
- Let's travel back towards the end of President Bush's first term in office. In preparation for his reelection campaign against Democratic Party Nominee ...
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