Goodbye Guantánamo!

Seeded on Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:46 AM EST (The New York Times)

Reversing Gitmo: Mr. Obama signed executive orders closing the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, within a year; ending the Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons; and requiring all interrogations to follow the noncoercive methods of the Army Field Manual.

politics, human-rights, prison, guantanamo, gitmo, interrogation

Honey, do you have any antibiotics? Honey once more recognized for its medicinal properties.

Seeded on Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:39 AM EST (Wired News)

Honey, once more recognized as an antibiotic

science, cancer, honey, chemotherapy, antibiotics

Your Carfun Footprint

Seeded on Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:14 AM EDT (MINI USA)

Mini USA always amuses me with their marketing sites. This one lets you calculate your "Carfun" footprint a combination of your Carbon footprint and how happy drivers of your car feel. It only contains mostly recent automobile options but is fun none the less.

technology, web, design, car, green, fun, flash, carbon, bmw, automobile

High Oil Prices, can be good for the US economy!

Seeded on Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:46 AM EDT (Business Week)

Amite Foundry's orders jumped 25% in 2007 and 30% more so far this year, spurring the company to hire dozens of workers. Why the turnaround? The price of oil.

business, oil, transportation, recycling, efficiency, foundry

Racing for the cure, for fuel that is. LeMans may be lapping up Diesel

Seeded on Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:27 AM EDT (BBC News)

It is expected to be a tense, nail-biting contest between two of Europe's top motor companies. And remarkably, they will both enter the race with cars powered by diesel engines.

technology, car, green, racing, hybrid, automobiles, environmental, lemans, disel

Grafitin art in motion. BLU Short Film: MUTO

Seeded on Thu Jun 5, 2008 8:40 AM EDT (VIMEO)

This is an absolutely amazing animation done completely in Buenos Aires, taking an interesting twist on grafiti.

entertainment, art, animation, paint, blu, grafiti

Comcast to FCC: We block only 'excessive' traffic

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:11 PM EST (CNET News.com)

Comcast is mounting an aggressive defense of its BitTorrent blocking, telling the Federal Communications Commission that its decision to slow some file transfers are absolutely necessary to keep its network operational and have been mischaracterized by critics.

fcc, comcast, netnuetrality

Spore Specifics Finally Emerge

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:07 PM EST (Business Week)

Like sweet, sentient life from primordial goo, firm details about Electronic Art's (ERTS) to-be blockbuster Spore by Sims genius Will Wright emerged from Maxis HQ today. The uber-highly anticipated game will be available at retailers worldwide on September 7.

technology, ea, electronic-arts, spore, ea-games

US scientists puncture the ethanol biofuel bubble

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:02 PM EST (The Register (UK))

Good science news (or bad, depending on your point of view) has arrived with two reports on the carbon footprint of biofuels, in the paper edition of Science magazine.

us-news, global-warming, carbon, greenhouse-gasses, bio-fuel

Roy Scheider, Actor in 'Jaws,' Dies at 75

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:59 PM EST (The New York Times)

Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

us-news, infection, jaws, myeloma, all-that-jazz, roy-sheider

Officer Suspended After Skateboarder Rant

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:54 PM EST (ABC News)

A veteran Baltimore police officer was suspended after a video appeared on YouTube showing him manhandling a 14-year-old skateboarder.

us-news, youtube, police-brutality, skateboard

Deputy dumps paralyzed man out of wheelchair

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:48 PM EST (msnbc.com)

It's hard to shock people in this modern wired world, but even the chief deputy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office in Florida found the security camera video of a jailer dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair appalling.

us-news, sheriff, wheelchair, deputy, surveillance-video

Diet Soda can make you FAT

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:41 PM EST (MedHeadlines)

People who drink diet soda in an effort to lose weight may be doing more harm than good according to a recent study conducted by the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Purdue University.

health, weight-loss, weight-gain, diet-soda, saccharine

New Advance in Understanding HIV

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:38 PM EST (eFlux Media)

Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that the identification of a specific HIV receptor that guides the virus to the intestines where it replicates and eventually destroys …

health, aids, virus, hiv, infection, std, pathogen

See's brand choclate takes responsibility in its Consumers Health

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:35 PM EST (United Press International)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of See's brand semi-sweet chocolate chips due to possible production line contamination.

health, food, fda, choclate, semi-sweet

Baby Toxic Crusaders. Heated baby bottles releaseing BPA into youngins.

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:31 PM EST (VOA News)

The study found 95 percent of all baby bottles on the market are made with bisphenol A, or BPA, a synthetic sex hormone used in making hard, polycarbonate plastic. Low levels of BPA have been linked to diseases in laboratory animals, including cancer.

health, baby, fda, plastic, toxic, bottle, bpa

Analysis: Yahoo Bid Backfire If Microsoft Can't Change? - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Fri Feb 1, 2008 4:39 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Microsoft 's $44.6 billion offerto purchase Yahoois a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.

business, google, microsoft, web-2-0, yahoo, search, cconomy

U.S. Economy Unexpectedly Sheds 17,000 Jobs - New York Times

Seeded on Fri Feb 1, 2008 4:35 PM EST (The New York Times)

The economy lost 17,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department reported on Friday, the first monthly decline in four years and the most striking evidence yet that the United States may be slipping into a recession.

business, economy, recession, labor, unemployment, job-loss

Tesla Roadster to be a one speed car. Achieves 0-60 in aprox. 4 seconds

Seeded on Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:23 AM EST (CNET News.com)

The engineers at Tesla Motors have designed a new single-speed transmission for its sports car that will let it hit the promised zero to 60 mph in four seconds.

technology, transportation, automobile, tesla, roadster, tesla-motors, sportscar

Blizzard achieves World Domination, now controls 10 million peoples social lives.

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:15 AM EST (Business Week)

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its juggernaut MMO, World of Warcraft, has reached 10 million subscribers. The announcement is a note to would-be competitors – listen up Age of Conan, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and Warhammer Online* – the 800 lbs.

technology, wow, world-of-warcraft, blizzard, world-domination

Microsoft Talks Standards Support for IE 8

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:11 AM EST (Windows IT Pro)

In keeping with its ongoing aim to not "break the Web" with major changes to the Internet Explorer (IE) rendering engine, Microsoft this week revealed how it will handle its support of Web standards in the next version of the Web browser.

technology, standards, w3c, ie8, internet-exporer

Work stress 'changes your body'

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:08 AM EST (BBC News)

A stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research has indicated. The study reported in the European Heart Journal focused on more than 10,000 British civil servants.

health, work, stress, heart-disease

Arnold's Healthcare plan faces do or die today.

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM EST (Mercury News)

The sweeping health care package backed by Gov.

health, democrats, deficit, arnold-schwarzenegger, healtcare

Twins Formerly Joined at Chest, Abdomen Headed Home

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:52 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

Formerly conjoined 2-year-old twin girls walked, played and swatted at bubbles Tuesday during their first public appearance since risky November separation surgery, which doctors said they had only a 50 percent chance of surviving.

health, surgery, doctor, conjoined-twins, bubbles, seperation

Man at center of abuse investigation dies from Maggots and Infection

Seeded on Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:48 AM EST (Daytona Beach News Journal Online)

An elderly nursing home patient found with maggots in his eyes never recovered after being taken to a hospital and died two weeks ago, his daughter said Tuesday.

health, healthcare, abuse, hospital, elderly, old

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V Disappoints With Its Second Episode; Another Bad One And This Reviewer Is Giving Up On This New Series (Spoiler Warning)
So I seeded several stories about V - links below - but held out hope it was better than the reviewers said it was. Today I sat down and watched it while also reading Television Without Pity'ssnarky but spot on criticisms of it, listing here my favorite comments from it.
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Meghan McCain sorry for Twitter cleavage snap but won't delete her account
Source: Raw Story
Meghan McCain, one of the daughters of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has apologized for using Twitter to post a picture in which she displayed an ample amount of cleavage. View the picture here.
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Woman thrown off plane for breast-feeding sues
Source: Toronto Star
A woman who was thrown off an airplane for breast-feeding her child, sparking a day of airport protests nationwide, is suing the three airlines involved in the flight.
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Five-year-old boy kills 12-foot-long 800-pound alligator
Source: Telegraph
Simon Hughes was on a hunting trip with his father when they came across the massive reptile. The boy grabbed his junior-sized .410-gauge shotgun and fired at the creature which was 20 times his size and is one of the biggest ever seen in Texas.
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Ya Know Those Metal Water Bottles You Bought Because You Were Worried About BPA? The Liners In Those May Be Made With BPA.
Source: Consumerist
One of the major manufacturers of those bottles, Sigg, recently admitted that the plastic liners of their metal bottles kind of, um, contained BPA. Cue uproar. Children's safety products blog Z Recommends notes that this puts the company in a bad position going forward.
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