San Francisco Mayor Asks Feds to Approve Wave Energy Project

This morning, San Francisco took the first step toward turning the promise of renewable ocean energy into reality by submitting a preliminary permit application to the federal government to develop a wave power project off the coast of California. The project could generate between 10 to 30 megawatts of energy, with potential of up to 100 megawatts

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Eastwood thinks political correctness in society no humour

"People have lost their sense of humor. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

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An Artist by Cory Stevens

“An Artist” by Cory Stevens from Yellow Mama is a fantastically tale set in a forest. It is told in third person with almost no dialogue. A young artist lives in a forest with only a never-inkless pen and never-drying cyan paintbrush. After many years he found a completely white room, filled with unending art supplies of all kinds. His urge to wand

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Jail Bird by Julia Camara

Annabeth Clink was known for her unusual money making ideas and schemes. She wasn’t dishonest, just desperate for more free time. You see, she’s what one would call a frustrated writer. Never could find the time to finish that novel. Between the many day jobs she could never keep for long and the mess she made of her love life, time was against her

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Yikes. Court orders Google to remove some sites from results

Courts apparently have the power to censor the internet now? WTF? Create uproar please.

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McDonalds be a hero on your own time!

Man rescues woman at McDondalds while on duty, man gets shot, McDonalds says pay your own medical bills!

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Scientists and God

Sir — The question of religious belief among US scientists has been debated since early in the century. Our latest survey finds that, among the top natural scientists, disbelief is greater than ever — almost total.

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Ron Paul: America's War on Drugs must end

Congressman Ron Paul is the most conservative, grandfatherly man to ever be admired by America's marijuana enthusiasts. On Friday night's episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, he reminded those who may have been suffering an impaired short-term memory at that late hour why, exactly, they should like him. -=W /VIDEO=-

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California cutting off water to people

Water leaders today urged Californians to make every effort to cut water consumption by 20 percent this year because of the growing likelihood of a third straight drought year.

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Facebook Won't Let You Remove Dead Relative's Page

Facebook thinks it knows better than the sister of the deceased journalist Bill Bemister about what to do with his Facebook page. Stephanie Bemister sent them a copy of his death certificate and asked it get taken down for privacy and respect purposes. Unlike every other single social networking site she dealt with, Facebook said no.

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Huge gamma-ray blast spotted 12.2 bln light-years from earth

The Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published on Thursday said. The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light.

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NYU Students Barricaded Up To Protest Budget

Dozens of students have barricaded themselves inside NYU's student union cafeteria, demanding increased transparency of the school's finances.

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Google Earth Uncovers the Lost Forest of Mount Mabu

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) in search of biological riches made incredibly good use of Google Earth imagery when they used it to find a pristine rainforest on top of little-known Mount Mabu in northern Mozambique in 2005. They put a big ‘X’ on their map and journeyed out to Africa in 2008...

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Are you fucking kidding me Staples? (PIC)

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BREAKING: San Francisco Installs Three EV Charging Stations

At approximately 10:00 AM PST today, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will announce the installation of three electric vehicle charging stations in front of City Hall. The stations will be used by plug-in electric vehicles already in San Francisco’s municipal fleet, along with plug-in electric hybrids owned by City CarShare and Zipcar.

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50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

There has been high drama on the second day of the Pirate Bay trial. Due to serious shortcomings in the prosecution evidence, around 50% of the charges in the case are going to have to be withdrawn. The defense describes it as a ’sensation’, seeing half of the charges being dropped on the second day.

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Magenta is NOT a REAL color!!!

A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence - Magenta.

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Scientists stop the aging process

Scientists have stopped the aging process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.

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Configuring GIMP 2.6 to Replace Adobe Photoshop

If you’re used to the Photoshop interface, the open source alternative GIMP can be somewhat confusing. You can, however, configure it to look and behave the same way.

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Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

A young (dwarf?) stormtrooper walks with his mom, who happens to be Princess Leia. What an incredible turn of events.

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Where you've been on Net not private, judge rules

An Ontario Superior Court ruling could open the door to police routinely using Internet Protocol addresses to find out the names of people online, without any need for a search warrant.

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Fiction Market Blog: Dandelions by Roger Poppen

“Dandelions” by Roger Poppen from Gowanus is a plain spoken story set in Watertown, South Dakota. The story is told in first person and takes the reader through his parents’ former neighborhood. The trip into the past with his parents sets this narrator into his own past, where he remembers just how neat these people lived. So neat, that they found

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Graph: Taking Apart The $819 billion Stimulus Package

The centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda is an $819 billion economic stimulus plan. Senators spar over what to consider a tax cut. The Congressional Budget Office tallies the tax-cut portion to be significantly less than the one-third Democrats claim it to be.

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Russian, U.S. satellites collide in space

Two satellites, one Russian and one American, have collided some 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia, the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, said Thursday.

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Evolution of renewable energy

Archaeological evidence shows that the first human use of geothermal resources in North America occurred more than 10,000 years ago with the settlement of Paleo-Indians at hot springs. The springs served as a source of warmth and cleansing, their minerals as a source of healing.

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The Pirate Bay: 'Political trial of the decade'

Next week sees the start of the long-awaited Pirate Bay trial. With the eyes of the world on Sweden, Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge argues that there is much more at stake than the future of the site's operators.

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Teenage handbag thief outpaced by 72-year-old ex-sprinter

A teenage thief picked on the wrong victim when she tried to run off with a bag belonging to pensioner Jean Hirst - a former championship sprinter.

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18 YearOld Having Sex with 14 Year Old Girl gets 10 days in

Jessica's Law is the informal name given to a 2005 Florida law, as well as laws in several other states, designed to punish sex offenders and reduce their ability to re-offend. A version of Jessica's Law has been introduced on the federal level, known as the Jessica Lunsford Act.

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Generational Theft? Take a look at the last 8 yrs...

The conservative blogosphere, led by up and coming right wing-nut Michelle Malkin have been frantically pushing to label the stimulus bill the “Generational Theft Bill,” and impressionable republicans on the hill are echoing this ill-conceived branding quip. Generational Theft? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

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Secret $65M Facebook Settlement "Accidentally" Revealed

ConnectU's attorneys have some explaining to do, after publishing the value of the top-secret Facebook settlement in their firm newsletter.

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Classic Calvin & Hobbes; Ha! | money

Discovered via Dr. Greg Mankiw's blog.

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Religion: What Iran and Alabama have in common

Generally, the richest nations tend to be the least religious. However, Americans are extremely religious compared to other other rich-world nations. In fact in certain regions, our level of religiosity rivals countries like Iran and Lebanon.

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A Map of Undersea Cables from ... 1901!

Not bad for an era that was just getting used to the idea of a horseless carriage

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Swing by Joshua Scribner

“Swing” by Joshua Scribner from Static Movement is a plain spoken, experimental story set in a mental hospital room. The story is told in third person, consisting mostly of dialogue. The descriptions are sparse just like a stereotypical mental ward is expected to be, adding to the effect of the starkness. Doctor Carol has come into the room of Lucy

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Sierra Nevada Beer Brews Ethanol, Says Wazzup? : Gas 2.0

Not only is Sierra Nevada tasty stuff, now it's helping to make biofuel.

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Gestation by Adam Bloom

I lie to get her in the car.I tell her it’s a surprise vacation. That I already cleared things with her boss for her to take a week off; that I already called her parents, and her sister Eileen, and told them where we’d be; that I told them how to get a hold of us in case of emergency.

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Wall Street Journal: Greed Is Good. Bonuses Are Great.

1973 was a terrible year on Wall Street. An unexpected crisis in the Middle East led to a quadrupling of oil prices and a serious global economic recession. The president was in serious trouble with Watergate. The S&P 500 index dropped 50% (after 23 years of rising markets), and much of Wall Street fell into the red. No profits and no bonuses.

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How to ‘grow’ your own indoor fresh air | Emerging Technolog

A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can “grow” fresh air indoors with just three varieties of plants. The discovery was the result of 15 years of testing at Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubator Park (PBC™ - STIP) in New Delhi, India, an eco- friendly oasis for businesses avoiding

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Senator Jim DeMint and 42 Other Idiots

On Wednesday Jim DeMint introduced one of the most moronic amendments in the history of The U.S. Senate to the stimulus bill. It lost, but a whopping 43 Senators, including a few Democrats voted in favor of it. Now the lunatic fringe of the right-wing is hyperventilating about religious discrimination.

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Obama Threatens UK Over Release of Gitmo Torture Evidence

Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret because of serious threats the US has made against the UK, the high court ruled today. Davis said: "The ruling implies that torture has taken place in the [Binyam] Mohamed case, that British agencies may have bee

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Subway Sticks With Phelps

Likely delay of campaign due to pot smoking, but Subway is sticking with Phelps.

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Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University. Researchers do not know why THC inhibits tumor growth, they say the substance could be activating molecules that arrest the cell cycle.

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Young hero died protecting sister from rapist

A seven-year-old boy who died defending his older sister from a rapist has been honored posthumously. Zhenya Tabakov's mother received the order of courage medal on behalf of her son.

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Americans Should Not Stand for Lock-down on Single-Payer Dis

As an ardent advocate of single-payer healthcare for many years, I am more than a little frustrated by Washington insiders—beholden to healthcare corporations—telling the American people that passing single-payer healthcare reform, specifically HR. 676, the United States National Health Care Act, can't happen. The fact is they are standing in the w

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200,000 California State Workers on Unpaid Leave 24 Days

200,000 California State Workers on Unpaid Leave 24 Days in 2009.

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iWork ‘09 virus effects 20,000

iWork virus effects thousands of Apple users

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Ubiquity ... A very cool Firefox add-on

It's a little bit old, but the add-on is very cool. Check it out. It's basing the interface on language.

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The Pirate Bay Plans to Sue IFPI

Earlier this week a Danish court decided that all ISPs have to block access to The Pirate Bay. In response to the judgment, three ISPs have already announced that they will take the case to the Supreme Court. In addition, The Pirate Bay itself now says it will sue the anti-piracy outfit IFPI if the ISPs fail to overturn the ruling.

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Hoth [PIC]

Star Wars

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A Mammoth Discovery in Down Town San Diego

The remains of the adult Columbian mammoth were found in down town San Diego, where the Thomas Jefferson School of Law is building its new $68 million campus. Paleontologists from the San Diego Natural History Museum estimate they are about 500,000 years old.

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How Google Made The New Gmail Buttons With Just HTML/CSS

The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.

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Scientists Confirm Algae Is the Most Effective Energy

using algae as an alternative to oil!!!

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Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7

In depth: A lot of people have been chattering about the improvements Windows 7 brings for Windows users, but how does it compare to Ubuntu in real-world tests? We put Ubuntu 8.10, Windows Vista and Windows 7 through their paces in both 32-bit and 64-bit tests to see just how well Ubuntu faces the new contender.

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I LEGO N.Y.

During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.

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Ticketmaster Screws the Fans

This is scalping, plain and simple and it should be illegal.

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What a Remote Town in Greenland Looks Like [PIC]

Ittoqqortoormiit is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland, near the mouth of the northern shore of the Kangertittivaq fjord. Population is 537. Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the most remote towns in Greenland. It is served by the Nerlerit Inaat Airport, reachable by helicopter or boat for a few months a year.

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OMG! Reddit breaks Adsense TOS!!!!

Sites displaying Google ads may not include: *Pornography, adult, or mature content

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Free Speech for Students – Unless they Get Good at It

Whether or not students can be punished for speech outside of school has become a controversial topic recently and the ruling, at least so far, is a little strange: it seems that student speech outside of school is protected, so long as it’s ineffective.

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Rubik's Cube inventor is back with Rubik's 360

The Rubik’s 360 is set to repeat the success of the maddening Cube, which became an overnight sensation almost three decades ago and remains the world’s fastest-selling toy. Now the reclusive Hungarian inventor hopes to recreate the buzz of Rubik’s Cube with his new game, featuring six balls trapped within three transparent plastic spheres.

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Earth-hunter telescope prepared for launch

NASA unveiled a modest telescope on Friday with a sweeping mission — to discover if there are any Earth-type planets orbiting distant stars.

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YouTube - President Obama Signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay

On January 29, 2009, with the new law's namesake Lilly Ledbetter there to witness, President Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- legislation to fight pay discrimination and ensure fundamental fairness to American workers.

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Police spend 20,000 euro on cardboard officers

Police forces have spent more than �20,000 on cardboard cut-outs of uniformed officers designed to confuse criminals.

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Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning

An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.

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How Different Countries Count Their Cash

How do you count yours?

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The Associated Press: Analysis: Team Obama preoccupied with

You'd hardly know George W. Bush is spending his days relaxing down in Texas. It feels like he's still right here in Washington, given the current president's almost daily repudiation of his predecessor's policies.It's not that you hear Barack Obama uttering Bush's name, and aides are loathe to bring up Bush directly, except in private.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

The continent-sized vortex of plastic waste blighting the Pacific.

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