March 2009
New Report Urges Congress to Reverse Parts of... →
One of the nation’s leading legal rights groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to make major changes in the USA Patriot Act to reverse parts of the hurriedly passed law that have been found…
Do Not Mess With This Guy... [PIC] →
Microsoft Encarta Officially Succumbs to Wikipedia →
o you remember what came in between printed encyclopedias and Wikipedia? For many, the answer is Microsoft Encarta
nUbuntu →
What was it that the Terrorists hate about us... →
Earth Hour in 2009 [PICS] →
Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 29th, as homes, office…
CIA: Torture Gave No Leads, Foils No Plots, Led... →
The Feds are finally releasing more & more information that was hidden under the Republican administration that reveals that torture was not just totally unreliable, but is a waste of valuable…
Judge OK's Investigation of Bush Officials →
Investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon has passed a 98-page complaint to prosecutors that accuses former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and five others of being the legal architects of system…
Luxim Plasma Light Bulb Kicks Some Serious LED... →
At 140 lumens/watt, these pill-sized plasma light bulbs by Luxim are a pretty awesome contender for “light of the future”. They are almost 10 times more efficient than traditional incandescent light…
Take your Google Contacts with you →
Lots of websites ask you to invite your friends when you sign up, and for good reason; the web is more fun when you can share your experiences with other people. However, too many of these sites…
Photography is Not a Crime, It's a First Amendment... →
The headline in today’s New York Times’ article sums up perfectly why so many cops feel threatened by photographers: When Evidence From Surveillance Cameras Leads to Charges Against Officers.
No dating, thanks, just sex →
Dating culture is dead - instead, young New Zealand women are regularly getting drunk and cruising around in packs looking for men to have sex with.
Huffington Post Launches Investigative Journalism... →
Novel approach to bolster and finance investigative journalism outside existing media organizations / publications. The Huffington Post / Atlantic Philanthropies effort follows similar play by…
Earth, Our Home Planet, and the International... →
Photographed from NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119) on 25 March 2009.
Here's to the Death of Broadcast →
With more viewers drifting to cable and going online, the formerly mass networks are losing money and cultural clout. Programmers and cultural critics are warning of the end of the mass-media era,…
Antarctic Iceberg →
Photographer: Bill Adler
Reason Is The Greatest Enemy That Faith Has [PIC] →
This is not one of those fake church signs: it’s the real thing, taken in Arkansas. | via http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/we_arent_going_to_kiss_and_mak.php
George Will: Bailing Out of the Constitution →
It is high time Americans heard an argument that might turn a vague national uneasiness into a vivid awareness of something going very wrong. The argument is that the Emergency Economic Stabilization…
If Atheists Ruled the World →
All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums.
Did You Know? It Will Blow Your Mind. →
Lightning Triggered By The Eruption Of Alaska's... →
Photo credit: Bretwood Higman
Buzz Aldrin's Incredibly Freaky Story About The... →
A very strange-but-true story about Z particles penetrating Aldrin’s spacecraft and impacting the retina of his eye. The sort of thing you don’t think about until your in, well, space.
Apple - Support - Discussions - Use Front Row on a... →
Stem Cells To Grow Bigger Breasts →
A STEM cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time. The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves…
Lacy underwear secret tool of polar expedition →
Arctic explorer Pen Hadow and his team are relying on a pair of lady’s knickers to navigate their way to the North Pole after compasses failed.
Left click on MacBook - Ubuntu Forums →
[ubuntu] Right-Click with a Macbook - Ubuntu... →
How to dual boot OS X Leopard 10.5.6 and Ubuntu... →
MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight - Community Ubuntu... →
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onOne Software - Genuine Fractals 6 Plugin for... →
How-To: Play DVD under Ubuntu | Debian/Ubuntu Tips... →
MacBookPro2-1_2-2/Intrepid - Community Ubuntu... →
The Real Crime in the Bailout →
The size of our national economy this year is roughly $15 trillion. The size of the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) market is $64 trillion. The whole world GDP is about $56 trillion. How could the CDS…
BREAKING: Obama Passing Laws to Search Citizens... →
Under the guise of “national security” by means of “intellectual property” protections.
Defamation of "Religion" ...is now a Human Rights... →
GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning “defamation of religion” as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs…
Revew: Apple's New Mac Mini Much More Versatile →
In the four years since the Mac Mini was introduced, and Apple has added some solid firepower under the hood, while leaving the Mini’s basic nature intact.
'I am a PC Ad' was staged →
Guy caught on film reveals that she never even went in the Apple store.
ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust →
Meet Vince Shlomi. He’s probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi,…
BREAKING: UPS Announces It Will Stop Advertising... →
In response to our Stop Supporting The O’Reilly Harassment Machine campaign, UPS told us yesterday that it was investigating whether to continue supporting O’Reilly’s show. Today, UPS announced it…
Sarah Palin Adviser's Scientology Plot to Take... →
In 1986, he masterminded a plan—which was never executed—for Scientology to get into the “MONEY and VOTES game” in order to “create power” for Scientology and win influence Washington, D.C.
SCIENCE WINS IN TEXAS!! Barely. →
Incredible news out of Texas: creationists have lost a big battle to destroy science education in the Lone Star State!
The Woman Who Could Nail Bush - The Daily Beast →
The real reason for Republicans’ vehement opposition is that [Office of Legal Counsel nominee] Dawn Johnsen is committed to overturning the Bush administration’s policies on torture and warrantless…
CSI is a Lie! Accurate fingerprint matching is a... →
The ruling sided with the scientists, law professors and defense lawyers who for a decade had been noting the dearth of research into the reliability of fingerprinting…last month it was endorsed by…
UBCD for Windows →
Apple Kicking Butt Without Steve Jobs →
Assuming Steve Jobs returns in late June, as scheduled, his medical leave is approaching its halfway point. So how’s Apple doing in his absence? Very well, we’d say — almost as if he hadn’t left.
Calibrating your computer's battery for best... →
macosxhints.com - Create, use, and share multiple... →
Shamwow Guy = Real Beavis →
Vince Offer is the live-action look-alike of Beavis.
The 12 Bankers Responsible For The Financial... →
Rolling Stone: The Dirty Dozen. Meet the bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis - and the officials who let them get away with it
Science Learns. Does God? →
Doesn’t the same critique that science eventually runs out of answer apply to religion as well. If you say God always existed, can’t you say the same of the Universe? It’s your right to believe in…