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Here is a story some people may have seen. It basically has to do with toxic metals and man made/synthetic chemicals found in the tissue of whales. Its based on a report put out by Ocean Alliance Stuff like this always gets me worried the whole left is missing the boat on how messed [...] “Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas” — Lewis Black blogTO has a roundup of photos and articles. Violent protests like these now seem ritual as well as pointless, with little effect on politics or the populace at large. And why does Starbucks always get their windows smashed? We need new tactics. Smashing windows and burning police cars is counter-productive and will [...] I just got back from Groovefest, a free two-day music festival here in Cedar City. The New Familiars. During their encore, people literally from 8 to 80 were dancing in the grass by the stage, bikers next to middle-aged Mormon moms. It was wonderful. They’re one of those genre-busting bands; rock, bluegrass, Americana, and [...] The Vatican is deeply distressedby those in their Belgium offices being treated like common criminals. Oh, wait… A University of Leicester study in 84 countries of 280,000 individuals concluded “the more educated on average believe themselves to be more left wing than their actual beliefs on a substantive issue might suggest.” The report didn’t mention this, but is the corollary true? Do the less-educated see themselves as more right wing than they [...] Three banks failed yesterday Romania is having a full-tilt financial crisis The financial reform bill isn’t. And the Gulf might get a hurricane. (What’s that you say, you’re going back to bed…) The Green Party has come through a serious bad patch and may be poised to become a major third party force again. I was Co-coordinator of the Green Party of Los Angeles County from 2001-2002. It was an extremely dysfunctional time for the GP, now apparently over and ancient history. Good. Their National Meeting [...] Pingdom has a fascinating, detailed article on the software Facebook uses to run what is now the world’s largest website, much of which is open source. How big is Facebook? They have half a billion active users, serve 570 billion page views a month, and over 1.2 million images a second. London is in a severe drought. They have a new desalination plant which, like all such plants, uses enormous amounts of energy. So, they are collecting used fish fry oil from across the city and using it to help power the plant. |
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