Gee, for some reason, this story hasn't managed to make it out of the local news and into the national headlines : CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Following a pipe bomb explosion Monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a Center Avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb factory. Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano, 56. Police found...
Atlas Shrugs has the scoop , from Polo Contacts Worldwide, " Americas Polo Cup Pre-Event - Invite Only - with President Elect Obama and Black Eyed Peas ": But see also, Canada Free Press , " 'Party Crashers' Had Five-Year Relationship With Obama Before State Dinner ": While the big gun media and American Secret Service are out there investigating “party crashers” Tareq...
Undoubtedly by now you've heard about Tiger Woods' car crash. Early reports had him in serious condition (which remember is better than critical condition) after he apparently hit a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his home in his SUV. The latest reports say he has been released from the hospital and is "fine." But I'm not going to speak to any of that because that's not what we do...
Things are “starting to unravel at the AGW seams,” because, apparently, the “dog ate the homework” – more specifically the temperature data on which the whole global warming “can of beans” depends. Yes, three clichés in one sentence, yet somehow apropos for this unraveling fiasco that every day becomes more eye-rolling. Today’s unraveling [...]...
There seems to be no such thing as privacy for popular figures these days. It looks as though TMZ got to someone at the hospital where Tiger Woods was taken after his car accident. If so and if this report...
Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years. Now that critics have begun to correct for those budget gimmicks, supporters of ObamaCare are firing back. One gimmick makes the new entitlement spending [...]
Alright, Nokia. We know you've ben hurting since N-Gage passed away , but apparently in your despair you forgot that Nintendo wouldn't take kindly to a promo video featuring emulated SNES games. Oops! The video has since been pulled from Youtube, but the screen grab above shows how Nokia went out of their way to demonstrate how well SNES emulators run on the N900. The rub here isn't the emulator itself;...
Tomorrow Pope Benedict will celebrate Pontifical Vespers as the first Vespers of the first Sunday of Advent, which also marks the beginning of the new liturgical year. On this occasion, the Holy Father will begin to use a new pastoral staff. As Msgr. Guido Marini, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, tells tomorrow's edition of the Osservatore Romano : Similar in shape to the ferula of Pius IX so far in...
When a male celebrity is spotted with a female celebrity, immediately the dating rumors start swirling. Well, here’s another one for you. Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom were seen together at Heathrow Airport in London. Now whether Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom are working together on an upcoming film perhaps or maybe [...]
Here are the 4 events in my Lifestream for November 29th: Personal Blog: Daily Digest for November 28th http://www.chrisleckness.com/2009/11/28/daily-digest-for-november-28th/ [ChrisLeckness] Shared QiGi’s Smartbook is more ...
Speaking to a room full of executives focused on "the business of online video" at this year's Streaming Media West trade show, it's easy to understand how Xbox Live GM Marc Whitten could fall into hyperbole regarding the implications of Project Natal . "I believe that this will be the largest leap of TV experience since the remote control," Whitten said on the subject, reports...
I have yet to lose a gadget, but that’s not surprising since my key tools are never out of my sight or more than an arm’s reach away. I’m sure it will happen someday and that’s when I’ll wish I had a solution like the nio. Using Bluetooth, nio monitors your equipment through the use [...]
Shaken by Climategate, the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has reversed its long-standing policy and agreed to make its climate database public so that other researchers can check the conclusions that have been reached by global warming alarmists who, until now, have been the only ones with access to the data. What is not clear from this report is whether the formulas and calculations...
I have many things I feel thankful about in my life. But in terms of our country and our planet -- hmmm. Not feeling so confident, so up, so grateful. And about Barack Obama -- well I feel very disappointed. There, I've said it.
This mornings must read work is an article in the Sunday Washington Post by none other than Ben Bernanke, titled The right reform for the Fed. It is a rational pushback against the like of Ron Paul and Chris Dodd’s programs to either hamstring or completely get rid of the Federal Reserve. As I have previously noted, [...]
