April 2009
Light pollution: What you're missing →
World can only burn another half a trillion tonnes... →
Having taken 250 years to burn the first half trillion tonnes of carbon we look set, on current trends, to burn the next half trillion in less than 40.
Twitter IRL (In Real Life) →
Taking tweets to the streets. Turns out Twittering is annoying whether or not computers are involved.
Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over ‘Secret’... →
Whether the public has a right to make a “fair use” copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly because the…
Scientists witness space's oldest event →
Astronomers have spied a gamma-ray burst from the universe’s infancy, making it the oldest event ever witnessed and shedding light on cosmic origins, say US and British scientists.
Specter To Switch Parties ... Dems now... →
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this…
Band Of Skulls – death by diamonds and pearls →
Particle physics study finds new data for extra... →
and potential fifth force of nature.
APOD: Galaxy's Edge →
President Obama Furious Over Manhattan Plane... →
A White House official tells ABC News that President Obama was “furious” to hear about the incident this morning when Air Force One and Air Force fighter jets appeared to be flying into the Manhattan…
Obama champions science… but where’s NASA? →
I have good news — really, great news — about Obama and science. But I’ll warn you, I get a little ticked at the end here.
Fuck you I'm special! →
Global Warming Forces Alaska Town to Relocate →
The 340 residents of Newtok, Alaska, will soon be among the first “climate refugees” in the United States. Global warming has battered the tiny coastal town: As average yearly temperatures rise,…
Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's... →
A study from Ohio State University, which proves, with math and stuff, that lots of conservatives seem to not understand the intrinsic, underlying joke of The Colbert Report:
Na (kana) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Fox manipulates Obama video to produce false quote →
During the April 24 edition of Fox News’ Special Report, White House correspondent Wendell Goler cropped a comment by President Obama and took it out of context — effectively reversing the…
NASA Scientist Predicts We’ll Meet E.T. by 2019 →
The good news is that Peter Smith who led NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission predicts that within ten years we’ll find life on other planets — but the bad news for us fanboys with hopes of hanging out with…
GOP Calls for Investigation of Previous... →
A deluge of GOP leaders have come out with a full-throated call to open up wide-ranging investigations into the former administration’s abuses of power.
Manually Remove a Windows Service: Don't Back Down →
You can also use the command line tool “sc” to delete a service (as well as a whole bunch of other things, like set it to manual/auto, stop/start it, etc)
How an FBI agent got Abu Zubaydah to talk without... →
‘We Could Have Done This the Right Way’
Low + Dirty Three – Down By the River →
Stars – Bitches In Tokyo →
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here →
Sigur Rós – Intro →
Stars – Life 2: The Unhappy Ending →
Matthew Sweet – Evangeline →
Kobayashi vs. Giant Bear in a Hot Dog Eating... →
Legendary competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi battles a huge Kodiak bear.
Glenn Beck's Dressing Room →
The Weirdest Japanese Commercial Ever →
:D
Why didn't astronauts float off the moon? Heavy... →
“While a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon.” My jaw dropped a little. I blurted “What?! A pen would fall if you dropped it on the…
Earth Day Fail: Coca-Cola Promotes Bottled Water →
s it just us, or do big corporations just not get what it means to be green? Recently, Pepsi attempted to convince us that bottled water could be green with their new ‘Ecofina’ bottle, which is made…
GOP Legislators Fought Pandemic Preparedness →
When David Obey (D-WI), a longtime champion of pandemic preparation, included $900 million for that purpose in the stimulus package, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional…
…summerized… →
Unseasonably warm followed by cold sand, except where it was dark, followed by tiny, smooth rocks and purple shells. Seaside pot holes had for a cold bath for lesbians and a detour for everyone…
Five Reasons Why Designers are Switching to Mac →
Designers and developers have many choices to make when it comes to getting work done, from what frameworks, languages, and image editing software to use, to what platform to run. The latter is an…
Forget Crop Circles, Houston We've Got Cloud... →
Wonderful photo.
Dark Markings of the Sky →
Little Known Fact: Origin of the FireFox Logo →
Daniel Burka’s FireFox logo partially inspired by an illustration in his childhood Bible.
Very creative advertisement from WWF [Pic] →
Fake Subway Advisory →
A fake subway advisory that speaks the truth of the New York subway system.
Ban the Klan (PIC) →
Who you gonna call?
Obama Repeatedly Reminds House GOP Of Their 0... →
A major overhaul of the health care system, he told the Republican leadership, would be done using a legislative process known as reconciliation, meaning that the GOP won’t be able to filibuster it.
dfo - Google Code →
Snow Leopard to offer screen recording via... →
With the introduction of Snow Leopard, QuickTime Player will assume more of a utilitarian role, with screen recording features reportedly joining the software’s exiting repertoire of basic audio and…
Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, Inked →
In case you’re a real glutton for punishment (or into bald, pudgy conservative bearish dudes), here’s the actual images of the tatted-up, unshirted Dick Cheney and Karl Rove from last night’s Daily…
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1's Best Surprise New... →
A hot copy of Windows 7 RC1 is on our desktop and we’re diligently poking around. But here are the three best new new things in Windows 7 Build 7100. Perhaps the best? Stream your music library over…
Installation/FromImgFiles - Community Ubuntu... →
Probably the Cutest Pair You'll See Today (PIC) →
Polar bear twin cubs photographed at Hudson Bay, Canada. At birth the cubs weigh little more than a pound (half a kilogram), with hair so fine it’s nearly invisible. (Photo by Flip Nicklin).
Timelapse of Gravity Waves →
Band Of Skulls – I Know What I Am →
Band Of Skulls – Fires →