Damn
Bob Morris @ Dec 6th 2006 13:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
CNet is reporting James Kim is deceased.
Archive for December 6th, 2006
Technology aids in James Kim search
Bob Morris @ Dec 6th 2006 07:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
Satellite to be rerouted in James Kim search
[The satellite company] declined to state what the cost was to the company to “retask” a satellite.
“We’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do,” he said.
Text messages to Kim family helped narrow search
That’s because the cell phone company was able to pinpoint which relay towers the messages went through when the Kim’s phone briefly was in an area with good reception. This greatly narrowed the area where searchers needed to look.
Australia. Worst drought in 1000 years
Bob Morris @ Dec 6th 2006 00:23 - Category: Climate change ;
It’s lasted five years, and is already beyond serious.
“What we’re seeing with this drought is a frightening glimpse of the future with global warming,” the leader of the South Australian state government Mike Rann told reporters.
From reader Kim
At the same time the entire country is sweltering and struggling under the worst drought on record. My hometown of Toowoomba (Queensland) is likely to run out of water by April 2007  unheard of, and serious  a city of 100000 without water??
The drought is so severe in Toowoomba that authorities proposed recycled sewage water be used as drinking water. Voters shot down the measure, but it may come back again on the ballot as an “armageddon solution.”
The Brunei Times details how the drought has “prompted Australian leaders to drop their skepticism about global warming and express some concerns” but hey, action is needed, not just concern.
Green Left Weekly says no to water trading and wonders why precious water, in defiance of logic and conservation, continues to be used to grow water-hungry cotton.
The market is not geared to managing severe environmental problems. Instead of treating water and other resources as commodities to buy and sell without regard for their real usage value, the current water crisis demands a national plan to re-allocate farmland, upgrade water infrastructure to remove waste and reduce unnecessary use.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. John Howard is holding a fire sale of the last water as drought burns the country.
Italy indicts 26 Americans on cleric kidnap
Bob Morris @ Dec 6th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
All but one of the Americans have been identified by the prosecution as CIA agents.
Headline of the day
Bob Morris @ Dec 6th 2006 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Flatulence, not turbulence forces plane landing in Nashville.
