Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists
A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim.
By Jasper Copping
Last Updated: 2:39PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists. Existing technologies require an average current of five or six […]
FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA
By Al Kamen
Friday, October 26, 2007; A19
FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news […]
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Pat Oliphant–October 25, 2007
Thanks go to Patapsco Creek Jack.
I used the green tint for easier viewing–DBp
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(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
Image: (Buttoned Down Mind) via amazon.com
The real story is here.
Further, what is more smarmy? Craig’s years of hypocrisy or the self-righteous outrage from his Phellow Pharisees? Geesh. It was a dangerous move, but it seems the man may have been horny. The real question is this. What did that cop do to get eight-hour shifts in a public men’s room stall? He must be […]
The universe is a string-net liquid
* 15 March 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Zeeya Merali
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(Image: Elmar Lackner/Mindat)
In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of “particles” with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives […]
After having read the New York Times op-ed piece about the purloined piano pieces recorded before the death of Ms. Joyce Hatto, Joe Masi, a pal in D.C., sent me this short note…
“She made several uncannily expert vocal recordings, too:
Joyce Hatto and Basie Live at the Sands
Chances Are it’s Joyce Hatto (Odds Are It Ain’t)
White […]
Next year, the toy retailer may want to avoid this problem by giving the savings bond to the last infant born in the year.
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“In Reversal, Toys “R” Us Gives 3 Baby Prizes
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: January 7, 2007
Toys “R” Us yesterday reversed its decision and awarded a $25,000 savings bond to a baby […]
To add the perfect absurdity to this event, ‘Solomon’ Trump should settle the matter of an American citizen’s becoming second class at the moment of birth. Jingoists Unite. You have nothing to lose but your souls.
“January 6, 2007
First-Baby Sweepstakes Fuels Immigration Debate
By NINA BERNSTEIN
New York Times
It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A […]
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I believe Fluffo is now the brand name of a mattress.
I’m not kidding.
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From this blog on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
According to reports, all souls in Limbo must find new housing. The half-way houses used by Friday meat-eating Catholics have been packed for forty years.
Apologies to Alonso Cano (1601-1667)
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