“Food insecurity” increasing dramatically

Record numbers of Californians are overwhelming food banks and county social service offices throughout the state.

One solution in Ventura County: volunteer gleaners to pick crops left behind by the commercial pickers. But they need more volunteers to get all the leftovers.

More, with video on gleaning

South Park introduces “Tiger Woods. The Game”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCQHECmb6A&feature=player_embedded

They’ve outdone themselves. This is brilliant.

Flywheel power storage connected to California wind farm

The primary goal of the project is to demonstrate that advanced control technology with energy storage can help expand the delivery of wind energy by effectively increasing the capacity of constrained transmission facilities in the area.

Power generated by the turbines will be stored for future use in the flywheels. IN addition, they flywheels [...]

Bankster news

New Merrill Lynch disclosure shines a perjurious light on Ben Bernanke’s sworn testimony.

Honesty is for the little people.

SEC, Fed alerted by Merrill of Lehman balance sheet games in March 2008

So which theory is it: stunning bureaucratic incompetence, wishful thinking and denial? Or a cover up? Or a combination of the above?

I [...]

AT&T New ZERO Charger stops vampire power drain

This is a seriously big deal. It’s A USB compatible universal charger that shuts off the power when the device is charged, saving huge amounts of energy.

It’s the eco-friendly charging solution for your mobile phone. Conventional chargers left plugged in – even when not actively charging – can draw as much as 5 [...]

Anti-war protests today will be non-events and ignored

That’s just the way it is now. People’s attention is elsewhere, on the economy, healthcare, jobs. There’s no focus on the wars nor have the organizers of today’s marches changed tactics to meet our changed times. So, it’ll just be preaching to the choir and I bet not much of the choir shows up this [...]

Pope issues mini-apology, promises to do nothing

He expressed “shame and remorse” and said “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated” then managed to imply that secularization of society was at least partly to blame. Who knew that secularization was a factor in infants being beaten bloody and preteen boys being raped.

The rest is about what you’d [...]

Corporations may be people but they aren’t citizens

Email from a reader

Larry Lessig is still working to push a Constitutional Amendment, but he’s got a new idea that’s really interesting: pass an amendment that doesn’t deny corporations are people, it just says they aren’t citizens. This would go a long way to allowing Congress to prevent unlimited corporate spending – especially [...]

Catholic Church. Just when you think it can’t get worse

Clerical sexual abuse of blind children

Scotland plans to be “Saudi Arabia of Marine Energy”

By 2020, Scotland expects to power 750,000 homes with commercial-scale wave and tidal power

Discover Magazine has a slideshow of the wave and tidal devices that will be used, such as the pictured tidal turbine.

PS These devices do not include Scotland’s vast potential amount of offshore wind power. That’s a whole separate subject.

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