Month April 2008

We will be watching you

Unmanned solar-powered capable of staying aloft for five years may be coming soon to a sky above you. While the technology here is way cool, are we moving towards a society where will will always be watched? Or is that…

Science marches on

Plastic dinnerware can now be made from pig urine! A Danish company has developed a way to extract urea as well as other useful products from pig urine and manure. Smokers: You’ll be may be startled to learn that urea…

Rift growing betwen al Qaeda and allies

Al Qaeda increasingly faces sharp criticism from once-loyal sympathizers who openly question its ideology and tactics, including attacks that kill innocent Muslims. Zawahiri attempted to answer such criticim on a video “The deaths of any innocents were the result of…

Hardly a surprise

Subprime mortgage litigation reaches record levels in the first quarter of 2008 Can increased levels of criminal indictments be far behind? Because I’m guessing there’s a whole lot of folks involved in the subprime debacle who deserve to go to…