March 2009
So much for her wanting to be a positive example for all those battered women out there. This is so sad!
Oh, my goodness. My life is now complete.
(via radarchive via scatteredwords)
BEST WEBSITE EVAR!!!
February 2009
(via azspot)
This is a very informative read.
But strap on your rubber boots; Tesla’s dream has come true. After more than 100 years of dashed hopes, several companies are coming to market with technologies that can safely transmit power through the air — a breakthrough that portends the literal and figurative untethering of our electronic age. Until this development, after all, the phrase “mobile electronics” has been a lie: How portable is your laptop if it has to feed every four hours, like an embryo, through a cord? How mobile is your phone if it shuts down after too long away from a plug? And how flexible is your business if your production area can’t shift because you can’t move the ceiling lights?
I talk about this with friends a lot. Tesla was a genius who was considered insane by most in his time. Here we are, well over a hundred years after Tesla, still trying to catch up with his research.
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
-Siddhartha
Before announcing his plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq, President Obama made an intriguing courtesy call on Friday morning: to former president George W. Bush, who began the war that Obama has so vehemently opposed.
White House officials did not elaborate on the call, which Obama placed from a holding room at Camp Lejeune just moments before he gave his long-awaited speech. Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said Obama made the call “as a courtesy” to the former president.
The actor left the compa-wait, Freddie Prinze Jr. was working for the WWE? What the hell?
Yep, he is a huge wrestling fan
(via jgh)
Seriously? Why make something like that up? Were there really no other worthwhile stories about touching heroics or government incompetence he could have told about Katrina? Or did Jindal just want to put himself in the center of the action.
This also shows us something about how the Internet does a crowd-sourced type of investigative journalism. The skepticism started at DailyKos. Skepticism about a lot of things started there—and some of the skepticism turned out to be pretty baseless. (Who is Trig’s real mother?) Bloggers might right up insufficiently researchd stories—and people reading them should know them for what they are. Others might have a few more facts to flesh out the story. The primary difference between this and what surely happens in more traditional and reputable newsrooms is that the bloggers often go public before they have a story. The process is messy, but the results can be real.
