Archive for February, 2007
Going to Canada? Check Your Past
February 24th, 2007Via: San Francisco Chronicle: There was a time not long ago when a trip across the border from the United States to Canada was accomplished with a wink and a wave of a driver’s license. Those days are over. Take the case of 55-year-old Lake Tahoe resident Greg Felsch. Stopped at the border in Vancouver […]
Air, the Best Clean Vehicle Battery We’ve Got for Now
February 24th, 2007If you’ve got the electricity, why not? Until the Eestor thing moves out of the vaporware phase, this looks simple and viable. Hmm, well, the MDI aircar is still pretty much in the vaporware phase too. An aircar in vaporware phase. Ha. Thank you, I’ll be here all week, please tip your waitress. And for […]
Oil Over $61 On Iran, Supply Concerns
February 23rd, 2007Did anyone buy some March call options on the NYMEX Light Sweet Crude, along with the insiders, gamblers and lunatics back in mid January? Via: Reuters: Oil climbed above $61 to a 2007 high on Friday following a sharp drop in fuel stocks in the United States and as tensions over Iran’s nuclear program stoked […]
Russia Warns U.S. On Iran Moves
February 23rd, 2007Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should be kept in mind here. Via: UPI: Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday warned the United States not to take military action against Iran. “The Russian foreign minister said Wednesday U.S.-led multinational foreign forces in Iraq must not conduct military operations outside the country, including against Iran,” the […]
Nichols: Timothy McVeigh’s Handler Was a High Ranking FBI Official
February 23rd, 2007Via: Salt Lake Tribune: Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official “apparently” was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. The official and other […]
Sysco, It’s What’s for Dinner, and Breakfast and Lunch
February 23rd, 2007Via: Slate: A hot dog from Yankee Stadium. Potato latkes from the Four Seasons in Manhattan. Sirloin steak at Applebee’s. The jumbo cheeseburger at the University of Iowa Hospital. While it would seem these menu items have nothing in common, they’re all from Sysco, a Houston-based food wholesaler. This top food supplier serves nearly 400,000 […]
Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve
February 22nd, 2007The Generation of ‘Damaged’ Girls
February 21st, 2007Via: Telegraph: A generation of very young girls is being psychologically damaged by inappropriate “sexy” clothing, toys and images in the media that are corrupting childhood, leading psychologists warn today. They say marketing takes unfair advantage of children’s desire for affection and the need to conform, leading to eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. Related: […]
Growing a Brain in Switzerland
February 21st, 2007If you liked the one about the bits of rat brain and the flight simulator, you’ll love this! Via: Spiegel: A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer — meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on “Blue Brain” promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness. […]
Britain and U.S.: The Worst and Second Worst Places for Children
February 21st, 2007Just put up a few more surveillance cameras. Sorted! Via: Yahoo / Reuters: Britain is the worst country in the industrialized world in which to be a child, closely followed by the United States, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Wednesday. The UNICEF charity looked at 40 indicators to gauge the lives of children […]
