Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar
js_sebastian writes “According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar,…
July 30, 2010, 7:00pm
Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms
boombaard writes “The day before yesterday CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that, from now on, there is a new rule in effect, which de facto bars photographers from coming within 65 feet of any…
July 07, 2010, 10:57am
Support GNOME by shopping at Amazon
I have an ever burgeoning lmental list of things I’ve always meant to post and the following has been one of them.
The GNOME foundation provide Amazon referral links for your browser….
July 05, 2010, 9:22am
Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament
rdnetto sends in this clip from TorrentFreak. To pursue these plans the Pirate Party needs to win 4% of the seats in Parliament in an election coming up in September. “After their former hosting…
July 03, 2010, 2:35am
Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millenium Prize
Kleiba writes “After turning down the prestigious Field Medal in 2006 for his contributions to mathematics, the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman announced yesterday that he is…
July 02, 2010, 9:02pm
Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners
The job market may look bad here, but if you’re in China, and you happen to be white, all you need is a suit and tie. An increasing number of Chinese companies are willing to pay any price to have a…
July 01, 2010, 2:12am
Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers
crimeandpunishment writes “A lot of Facebook users going through divorces have learned a very costly lesson about their privacy settings. In fact, for many of them their Facebook pages helped lead to…
July 01, 2010, 2:12am
EMI goes Zombie: its business is now owning and exploiting its copyrights.
I’ve written before that the publishing industry is a “walking corpse” because the virtual monopoly the industry once had over the production and distribution of texts is gone:
The ways we produce,…
June 25, 2010, 7:47pm
Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC
yukk writes “Mark Suppes, a web developer for Gucci, is working on his own personal fusion reactor. His work in a NYC warehouse using $35,000 of his own money and $4,000 raised on a website has made…
June 24, 2010, 9:06pm
