Shopkick. Rewards for just walking into a store

Shopkick takes location-based apps to a new level. Get the app (iPhone only for now) then walk into a store that has a Shopkick transmitter and app knows you are there. You don’t have to do anything. It checks you in automatically via a transmitter tone unique to each store that you can’t hear.. [...]

Thank God global warming is a hoax

I am delighted to be reassured by the fringe right wing that the piles of dead bodies, millions of lost homes, and even the very sun itself are part of a vast conspiracy, a plot to form an evil one-world government, a lefty liberal charade even in places that don’t understand or care what the [...]

Howard Dean joins Harry Reid, wishes Muslims weren’t so insensitive

Firedoglake

The preferred location, I gather, would be somewhere that didn’t function as a litmus test for whether a politician has a genuinely principled adherence to the US Constitution. After all, it’s awkward when our leaders must prove they actually understand why the Founders found religious intolerance so odious and dangerous to the concept of [...]

Nanotech tea bag filters water

It combines ultra-thin nanoscale fibers to filter harmful contaminants, while grains of activated carbon to kill bacteria. Simply put the tea bag in the neck of a water bottle and drink the water through it.

The bags cost less than a penny. This could save lives in areas with no clean water and backpackers [...]

Juarez Cartel using beautiful young women as assassins

Most are teenagers. Interesting ploy. But I wonder how willing they actually are.

America’s Broken Response to Pakistan

The ability for the United States to project power abroad – to protect its national security interests – is broken. [...]

Livescribe. The future of the pen

Scoble

Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows us how it’s done, using an 8GB Echo smartpen. Yep, a pen that has memory: for storing sound, your written notes for upload, and apps you can launch just by tapping a line you’ve drawn on paper. “Anything you write, hear, or speak, the pen will [...]

Father of Reaganomics quotes Lenin, calls for revolution

Paul Craig Roberts, writing for Infowars, details what he sees as our coming economic collapse

To borrow from Lenin, “What can be done?”

The neocons allied with Israel, who control both parties and much of the media, are strung out on the ecstasy of Empire.

The United States and the welfare of its [...]

Obama’s fundraising trip to L.A. gridlocks city

Look if it was an important trip, a matter of state importance, then maybe it would be ok to gridlock L.A. because Obama was coming. But this was a fundraiser. Multiple friends in L.A. said they had two hour drives for something that normally would have been a few minutes. Worse, the feds refused to [...]

Carl Davidson interview at Progressive Democrats of America meeting

Long-time stalwart organizer Carl Davidson interviewed at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Cleveland. They are not affiliated with the Democratic Party. He talks about how progressives have been shut out of the Democratic Party and how their local PDA meetings now draw more people than Democratic Party meetings. That’s because they organize from [...]