April 2008

Day 967: Global TV War Made For TV

April 21, 2008

Wired.com: Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war?  This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old civil lawsuit that is finally being tried [...]

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Day 967: Sinkholes At “Former” Ninth Ward Superfund Site

April 21, 2008

Which up until 1994 was the site of an elementary school and surrounding community that were initially put there by the Housing Authority of New Orleans and the Desire Community Housing Corporation. NO City Business: Superfund dilemma pollutes school master plan The Environmental Protection Agency maintains its cleanup from 1994 to 2000 has made the former site of [...]

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Day 966: Wabash Valley Quake!

April 20, 2008

Sorry for the delayed aftershock (heehee!) regarding this news, but I wasn’t close enough to a computer for blog access through most of this weekend. So, which one of you lucky Midwesterners felt the 5.2 and what was it like? Don’t leave out any details. AP: 5.2 Earthquake Rocks Large Region Of Midwest “It shook [...]

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April 20, 2008

New Orleans City Business: Memphis man to expose N.O. homeless on controversial Web site Because compromising photographs and videos of street people and hustlers (not the “legitimately” homeless, mind you) viewed by an audience that otherwise gets a kick out of watching Bum Fight will miraculously garner the homeless empathy, advocacy and “treatment, counseling, housing [...]

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Day 964: An Engineer’s Guide To Cats

April 18, 2008

As geek, Aunty Maitri to a dozen cats and Torturer Who Plays Us Like We’re Rented Bagpipes to a few others, I find this video terribly enjoyable as well as scientifically accurate. (Thanks, Julie!) Tweet

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April 17, 2008

Witness the groan-worthy depths to which we will descend to make earth science more appealing to the masses.  Discovery News: Worldwide ‘Love’ Vibe Detected.  *sigh*  “A subtle and mysterious global hum has been detected by seismologists studying records from Earth’s most boring seismic stations … The Love wave is a [toroidal] mode [of vibration] that [...]

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Day 963: “But I’m Showing My Support For Tibet”

April 17, 2008

Melvin Durai takes a swing at the Beijing Olympics … Inspired by [Aamir] Khan, long jumper Anju Bobby George announced that she will protest China’s human rights abuses by participating in the Beijing Olympics. “I am participating in the Olympics not in support of China,” she said, “but with a prayer in my heart for the [...]

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Day 962: Time To Break Out The Away Jersey

April 16, 2008

Packers 2008 Schedule Monday Nov. 24 @New Orleans Saints 7:30PM Superdome, prepare to be boarded by the Green & Gold!  My current fantasy is that Brett comes in from Kiln to watch (play in) the game.  It is right before Thanksgiving and he may be home. For more Brett, watch Letterman on April 24th. Tweet

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Day 962: Clusterbush

April 16, 2008

The middle of next week kicks off my Central Time Zone Spring Tour.  New Orleans – Houston – Memphis – Madison – Memphis – New Orleans.  I’d better be awarded ALL of those Northwest miles and be able to use them later, by gum! To make the week extra special, President Bush will be in town on Monday [...]

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Day 961: Supply And Demand, Much?

April 15, 2008

The national imperative should not be reducing or increasing the price of gasoline. It should be telling automaker lobbyists to take a hike until they come back with more fuel-efficient cars, demanding of Americans to drive less and a huge resurgence of mass transit, including carpools, buses and trains. Instead, Republican presidential candidate John McCain [...]

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