No Labels? Or just centrism with no real questioning

Look, the hyper-partisanship needs to end, on this we all agree. But the approach of No Labels is the same old dreary centrist dogma that if two sides are fighting then the answer must lie in the center  Well, no, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the radicals are right and the centrists are wrong, like [...]

Solar powered tents from the US military

These solar-powered tents will be able to power communication devices, laptops, and more, and use thin amorphous silicon in the solar cells.

“The technology has reached the point where the testing has shown they [solar-powered tents] are proven. Our teams have worked on the inverters and the durability of the systems. The durability [...]

Southern Culture on the Skids: White Trash / Greenback Fly

Tax cut asteroid to hit California budget

The California budget deficit could now reach $28 billion over the next 18 months due to estate tax cuts proposed by Obama. These cuts will cost California $2.7 billion in expected revenue, as it raises the excluded amount from $8 million to $10 million, and lowers the tax rate from 55% to 35% on [...]

Novel solution to expensive Beijing housing prices

Photo/Beijing Times

A newly graduated architect built his own egg on wheels to live in. The egg is outside his office and I do marvel that this is apparently legal to do in China and that he isn’t hassled by police and / or street denizens. How civilized.

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BBC blames the victim for police violence

BBC interviewer Ben Brown begins: These pictures *appear* to show Jody McIntyre … being dragged out of his wheelchair and dragged across the pavement. (Appear?)

Here’s the video that clearly shows Jody McIntrye being dragged out of his wheelchair by police, and for no apparent reason.

6:40 is the best:

Brown: Did you [...]

Feds using mob prosecution tactics to bust insider trading boss

[Charles Gasparino] says the insider trading investigation is like a mob bust; the Justice Department and the FBI are using the same techniques they use against mobs and terrorists. “There is a gentleman in the middle they want to snare.”

Many believe this is Steve Cohen, head of SAC Capital, and a very big [...]

Check to see if your Gawker password was hacked

Mine was. This includes all their sites; Lifehacker, io9, and more.

If your account was hacked and you use that password elsewhere, you need to change it at all other sites that use it.

Slate has the super-useful form. Put in your email or username and it’ll tell you if it was hacked.

Zero energy house generates excess energy, charges EV too

This concept house uses solar electric and solar thermal to generate more power than it uses. A prototype will be built in Berlin next year.

Obama believes in compromise, but only with the right

Because he never compromises with the left, now does he?