Archive for January, 2013
Rapper Lupe Fiasco Booted Off Inaugural Party Stage After Criticizing Obama
January 22nd, 2013Via: NPR: The rapper Lupe Fiasco was escorted off the stage at an unofficial inaugural ball in Washington, last night. As Politico reports, the Grammy-nominated rapper stayed on the anti-war song “Words I Never Said” for 30 minutes. Video posted by Now This News shows Fiasco dropping lines critical of President Obama, before the lights […]
‘Is Mali the Next Afghanistan?’
January 21st, 2013In other news: Al Qaeda Terrorists Were Working for BP; Witness Describes One Terrorist Speaking with a ‘Perfect English Accent Via: McClatchy: The war rages about cities with names such as Goa and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known […]
Gallery: Snowpocalypse Russia: ‘Snow Tsunami’ Swallows Streets, Cars, Buildings
January 21st, 2013Via: Russia Today: Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented chaos in Russia. Over the past week, the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays and, in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns.
Developer Offers Plan to Buy Belle Isle for $1 Billion, Secede from Michigan
January 20th, 2013If you can’t get your burbclave built in Honduras, maybe Detroit will work? Or Idaho or Texas… My guess is that the Seasteading guys will fire something up before it happens on land. And when they’re through effing around with half ass solutions (cruise ships???), there’s always Rapture… Or Elysium. In all seriousness, a Rapture-on-the-Surface […]
Shocker: House G.O.P. Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
January 19th, 2013Endless can kicking. Via: New York Times: Backing down from their hard-line stance, House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal government’s statutory borrowing limit for three months, with a requirement that both chambers of Congress pass a budget in that time to clear the way for negotiations on long-term deficit […]
The Next Big Thing in Technocrack Pipes: Oculus Rift
January 19th, 2013Via: Tom’s Hardware: “Holy $#!+,” I blurted after the Oculus Rift VR goggles were slapped on my face. It had nothing to do with the device’s physical aspect – the Oculus Rift was surprisingly light on my head despite its bulky appearance. I just didn’t expect to see what my eyes were sending to my […]
MacOS Logs All Downloads Regardless of Application
January 19th, 2013Via: OSXDaily: Whether it’s for troubleshooting, personal interest, or forensics, the following command will show you everything that you’ve downloaded to a Mac regardless of the application that it came from… … For those who would rather not have an all-inclusive historical list of downloaded files, you can run the following command to delete the […]
Thailand: Former Protest Leader Jailed for Gesturing About Censorship
January 18th, 2013Via: New York Times: It has become almost routine in Thailand for judges to hand down jail sentences to those convicted of offending the country’s king. But an unusual ruling issued on Thursday appears to considerably broaden the interpretation of Thailand’s already restrictive lèse-majesté law. In sentencing a former protest leader to two years in […]
Ex-Treasurer of Spain’s PP Had €22m in Swiss Bank
January 18th, 2013Via: Irish Times: The beleaguered government of Mariano Rajoy has been embarrassed by revelations that its party’s former treasurer had a bank account in Switzerland containing up to €22 million. Luis Bárcenas held the treasury post in the conservative Partido Popular (PP) from 2008 until 2009, when he resigned because of an investigation into his […]
Hearing Loss Partially Reversed in Noise-Damaged Ears of Mice
January 18th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: Anyone who’s gone to too many rock concerts or worked with loud machinery for too long (or listened to too many kazillion-decibel advertisements at a movie theater) may eventually pay the price: hearing loss caused by damage to tiny, sound-transmitting cells in the inner ear. Researchers now report they can regenerate […]
