In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr and Mrs Joe Peasant to submit to annual " carbon allowance " preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating the environment. As Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explains : Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes...
HIV/AIDS has cut a swath of destruction across the globe—infecting more than 60 million people, leaving 14 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa alone. But a global movement to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, along with scientific breakthroughs in treatment, have reversed the momentum in recent years. For those living with HIV in Africa, just two pills at 40 cents a day can bring a recovery so miraculous...
The alleged affair between Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel isn't the only scandalous relationship making headlines in the Orlando area this week. NBA star Dwight Howard of that city's magic is determined that negative word about him will be spoken by his baby mama ... we mean legally. According to a judge, she's not even allowed to speak his name. Court documents filed in Florida show that the superstar...
Filed under: Technology , Nissan When navigation systems started showing up in the center stacks of luxury vehicles, the new (at the time) tech typically would set owners back a couple grand or more (and still does). As we gear up for 2010, mapping tech is everywhere from the most expensive luxury sleds to economical hatchbacks, but there is still one problem. If you want an LCD screen with navigation...
Back in May at Google I/O, we announced ADC 2 -- the second Android Developer Challenge -- to encourage the development of cool apps that delight mobile users. We received many interesting and high-quality applications -- everything from exciting arcade games to nifty productivity utilities. We also saw apps that took advantage of openness of Android to enhance system behavior at a deep level to provide...
Blake Fall-Conroy's "Minimum Wage Machine" is a penny-dispensing Rube Goldberg machine that "allows anybody to work for minimum wage." Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15...
Ubisoft has just announced a new Prince of Persia -- but it's not a sequel to 2008's polarizing adventure (add unhappy emoticons to sentence as seen fit). Instead, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands will continue the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time trilogy series, complete with "many of the fan-favorite elements" and "new gameplay innovations that gamers have come to expect from...
This morning's San Francisco Chronicle pointed up the inconsistencies in comparing the proposed healthcare reforms with the Insurance Industry straw man (Canada and Britain) and the reality of the countries the U.S. system would actually be modeled like: Netherlands, Switzerland (which certainly must be the ultimate hero nation of all right-wingers and teabaggers today) and Germany. Health care systems...
Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast. And as if to underline the fact, FriendFeed’s access to the Twitter firehose was terminated and vaguely replaced with a slow version that is currently delivering Twitter posts between 20 minutes and two hours after their appearance on Twitter. At the Realtime CrunchUp,...
John Harris, in a list of ways to attack Obama that Republicans may find helpful: Too much Leonard Nimoy [.....] But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles. Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to Star Trek’s [...]
TruthDig | What really matters in our lives—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the steady deterioration of the dollar, the mounting foreclosures, the climbing unemployment, the melting of the polar ice caps and the awful reality that once the billions in stimulus money run out next year we will be bereft and broke—doesn’t fit into the cheerful happy talk that we mainline into our brains....
It's not April Fool's Day, is it? One of the stalwart go-to blogs on the right -- competing up there with rants at Freeperland several years ago was Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs. Even LGF has had enough of the lunacy coming out of the teabagger/birther/fundie wing . Enough to write this: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert...
The CrunchPad, named Popular Mechanic's 10 most brilliant products of the year (although it never came out) is not happening . Mike writes - The entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication... I'm enraged, embarrassed, and just...sad. I bet there's more to this story... Here's what Ladyada who makes hardware thinks ... Although it may seem like an irrelevant...
Last Tuesday, the United Kingdom began “the most thorough investigation yet into the decisions that led up to the war and governed Britain’s involvement” through a series of Iraq war hearings in which numerous high-level British officials — including key war supporter and Bush ally ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair — are expected to testify [...]
