Random stuff that interests me . . .

Chris Hedges: "This one could take them all down." Hedges on OWS w/ Occu...

2011-10-18T15:20:00.000-07:00

Justice on the electronic frontier

2011-10-18T06:23:00.001-07:00

Citigroup CEO Pandit’s personal data raided by hackers - ComputerworldUK

Figures

2011-10-18T06:20:00.001-07:00

Abu Dhabi Traffic Accidents Dropped 40% During the BlackBerry Outage - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

Your online Id

2011-10-18T06:18:00.001-07:00

4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

Hovercraft Tech

2011-10-18T06:09:00.001-07:00

Watch "QuantumLevitation" on YouTube

Blogging from mobile

2011-10-17T13:16:00.001-07:00

Testing the Blogaway app for Android.

Urgh. Wish this app worked!

Correction! Blog Posted! Hmm. This app may have potential.

The ducks don't care

2011-10-08T10:14:00.001-07:00

Steps away from the demonstration I'm sitting in the serenity of nature at the edge of the duck pond. Occupy Wall Street or Occupy nature. Contention and harmony co-exist within meters of each other. It is each individuals choice which reality we choose to inhabit.

Learning to blog on mobile

2011-10-08T10:03:00.001-07:00

I'm sitting at Mix, a coffee shop in Lithia Plaza in Ashland Oregon, Android in hand. Steve Jobs passed just days ago. #OccupyWallStreet has morphed into #OccupyEvereywhere and is being represented just a few steps away from me as #OccupyAshland - a small but valiant crew. I am authoring and uploading this blog on Google technology. The October revolution of 2011 is underway, and the times they are a changin'. Out with the old, in with the new. History in the making to be documented on my hand-held device.

The Rupture

2011-05-21T11:36:00.000-07:00

The heavens opening above Kiritimati (Christmas Island) on Judgement Day.

Countdown to the beginning of the End of the World

2011-05-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

According to Harold Camping of FamilyRadio.com, The end of the World begins May 21st at 6pm, in whatever timezone you are in, so I have created a countdown widget set to 6pm, May 21st, 2011 on Kiritimati, Kiribati, which borders the International Dateline at it's eastern most point.

By Campings predictions, the people of Kiritimati will be the first to experience the beginning of the end of the world which, according to Camping, will begin with a massive earthquake, resurrection, return of Christ, judgement day and rapture. Those who remain on earth will then enter a five month period of horror and suffering that will conclude October 21st with the complete destruction and end of the world.

Survive the rapture and you're still here to celebrate? Check out the facebook organized after the rapture looting party. See you there!

R.E.M. - It's the end of the world

2011-05-19T14:18:00.000-07:00

It's a day early, but I figure if I post this tomorrow no one will be around to watch it 'cause we'll all be raptured, dead, or too busy dealing with the final judgement and destruction of the world to bother. Besides, the net will probably be down.

Enjoy!

Surging BRIC middle classes are eclipsing global poverty

2011-05-17T21:48:00.000-07:00

"This dwarfs even the 19th-century middle class explosion in its global scale," noted economists Dominic Wilson and Raluca Dragusanu in a 2009 Goldman Sachs report. And they predicted, "the pace of expansion ... is likely to pick up."

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Surging BRIC middle classes are eclipsing global poverty

Bin Laden Family Reaction to Osama's Death

2011-05-17T10:37:00.000-07:00

It's the end of the world as we know it . . .

2011-05-14T19:09:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, the embed is not allowed. The video can be seen at familyradio.com Highly recommended - worth the click and the few minutes it takes to view!

May 21, 2011 from Family Radio on Vimeo.

Amazon Rainforest Deforestation

2011-05-03T15:48:00.000-07:00

From Nasa Earth Observatory. Read full article here.

The state of Rondônia in western Brazil — once home to 208,000 square kilometers of forest (about 51.4 million acres), an area slightly smaller than the state of Kansas — has become one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state’s forests have been rapid: 4,200 square kilometers cleared by 1978; 30,000 by 1988; and 53,300 by 1998. By 2003, an estimated 67,764 square kilometers of rainforest—an area larger than the state of West Virginia—had been cleared.

More on Osama

2011-05-02T00:57:00.000-07:00

Supposedly they buried him at sea and burned the mansion where they shot him in the head. WTF?????

Way to destroy the evidence.

I have a bad feeling about this

2011-05-02T00:44:00.000-07:00

Cartwheel in the Abbey

2011-04-30T00:50:00.000-07:00

Paul Fusco on Chernobyl

2011-04-26T10:29:00.000-07:00

Off Shore Drilling One Year Later

2011-04-21T03:27:00.000-07:00

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Joy

2011-04-20T11:51:00.001-07:00

2011-04-20T09:40:00.000-07:00

Pripyat Today

2011-04-18T08:44:00.000-07:00

The town that was contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Nature has taken over. My questions, that are not addressed in this video, or any report I have read so far - What species are thriving here? How are they making use of the high levels of radiation as nutrients?

SF to Paris in Two Minutes

2011-04-11T10:27:00.000-07:00

Photographer Nate Bolt's setup:

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Grandma hacks the internet with shovel

2011-04-11T10:05:00.001-07:00

A 75-year-old Georgian woman was despondent following her arrest and subsequent release for alleged cutting a fiber-optic cable in her poverty-stricken village of Armazi -- and causing Internet outages in three neighboring countries.

Facing up to three years in prison, the woman pled her innocence in court Friday. She argued not only that she wasn't responsible for the outage, she doesn't even know what the World Wide Web is.

"I have no idea what the Internet is," Hayastan Shakarian told news agency AFP, arguing between bursts of tears that she lacked the strength to cut through the thick cable.

Shakarian said she had been collecting firewood; police argue the woman was scavenging for scrap metal when she discovered the primary fiber-optic cable which runs through the two countries. Service went down when she apparently hacked into it with a shovel severing the line, officials said.

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