In the Marmoset Family, Things Really Do Appear to Be All Relative
• NY Times“Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle” has now taken on a new meaning. Scientists studying marmosets have discovered that over half the males carry their brother’s sperm.
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Giant poisionous toad captured in Australia
• The ScotsmanThe male specimen weighing 2.9lb and almost 1ft 6in is the largest to be caught anywhere in the Northern Territory, according to environmental group FrogWatch.
Video taping your parachute jump when the chute don't open
• Vidmax (video link)Guy freefalls to earth from 5000 feet and manages to survive.
Senate war bill features $20B in pork
• San Francisco ExaminerLike their counterparts in the House, the Senate has larded its version of an “emergency” war spending bill with nearly $20 billion in pork-barrel outlays, including $100 million for the two major political parties’ 2008 presidential conventions.
Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline
• APDefying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March. [Oh, those bold Dems.]
<i>Falcon 1</i> rocket, second launch post-flight review from SpaceX
Powell GammillThis is a further report on telemetry on the second flight of the Falcon 1 private launch rocket platform system. Testing is over ... now for the real goods at 1/3rd the cost of current government launch systems per pound lifted to high orbit.
FCC Chief: Wireless Key to Universal Access
• IDG NewsThe U.S. government taxes wireline carriers to subsidize phone services for rural areas that are more expensive to reach by wire. This Universal Service Fund has come under attack for being an outdated burden in an age of cellular and other forms of
Smart Sunglasses Change Color on Demand
• LiveScience.comThe lenses the researchers have developed are made of a electrochromic polymer, a material that can alter its levels of darkness and color in response to an electric current. The glasses only require power when they change hue.
Ancient Lizard Missing Front Limbs
• LiveScience.comRemains from a 95-million-year-old marine creature with nubs for legs is clarifying how some lizards shed their limbs as they crept through evolutionary time and morphed into slinky snakes.
Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn
• Space.comOne of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than 2 decades ago. Now, having spo
Scientists bend liquid with power of light
• AFPThe French and American physicists used a laser beam to produce a surprisingly long and steady jet of soapy liquid that was narrower than a human hair. When directed at a different angle, it pushed the liquid into a hump-like shape.
Texas signs new self-defense by gun law
• ReutersCriminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead. "The right to defend oneself from an imminent act of harm should not only be clearl
Blair warns Iran of "different phase"
• Reuters[Wondering why gas is $$$$!!!!] British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran of a "different phase" if it does not free 15 British military personnel captured in the Gulf 4 days ago. The sailors' capture and new U.N. sanctions imposed
SAIC: Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
• Vanity FairMega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and made $8 billion last year—sells "expertise" behind the war
Charge dropped in taped bartender attack
• APThe police superintendent said he is changing the way the department responds to allegations of misconduct after videotapes of violent confrontations involving off-duty officers surfaced twice in a week. Supervisors will move faster to get officers w
Big Bubba is definately going to be watching,... everything
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Stasi Leader Defends Need for Expanded Powers
• APFBI Director Robert Mueller struggled to convince skeptical senators that - despite recent abuses - the FBI should retain Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records without a judge's approval. "The statute did
US Public Service Academy
• US Public Service AcademyI have a better idea. Let's build the US mind your damn business academy, and let free enterprise reign academy.
Ron Paul at Sky Harbor Airport Thursday and Saturday Brunch
Ernest HancockThursday March 29th - US Airways Flight # 656 - Arrives 6.45 pm / Saturday March 31st Hometown Buffet Scottsdale 10am (RSVP for Sat. Event - Details in article)
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Rumsfeld
• APFormer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cannot be sued on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said, throwing out a lawsuit brought on behalf of 9 former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
B-29 R/C with X-1. Very Cool Video ( for men :)
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Inflation and the tooth fairy
• Wall St Journal(Since the Fed creates inflation, that's the topic I choose) Back in the day - the 1960's to be exact - the tooth fairy would leave Rachel Hamman a shiny dime under her pillow. But for Hamman's children these days, the tooth fairy has f
Hood or Robin Hood? State government and reducing poverty
• Rio Grande FoundationUnfortunately for New Mexico's poor, as the data in this study show, the solution to date has often been bigger goverment which, as our study shows, has actually exacerbated the problem. (What a shock)
US long worried that Iran supplied weapons in Iraq
• New York TimesMore than 20 months ago, the US secretly sent Iran a diplomatic protest charging that Tehran was supplying lethal roadside explosive devices to Shiite extremists in Iraq, according to American officials familiar with the message. The July 19, 2005 p
US Navy shows force in Persian Gulf
• APThe US Navy on Tuesday began its largest demonstration of force in Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by a pair of aircraft carriers and backed by warplanes flying simulated attack maneuvers off the coast of Iran.
CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing "terrorists"
• World SocialistIn another blow to the Bush adminstration's closet political ally in Latin America, an intelligence report obtained by US CIA has charged Colombia's army chief Gen. Mario Montoya with collaborating intimately with right-wing paramilitaries
Supremes look at kiddie porn ... cartoon kiddie porn
• NY TimesThe justices agreed to hear a government appeal of a ruling issued last year by the federal appeals court in Atlanta that overturned a federal law aimed not only at the sexual exploitation of computer-generated child pornography.
Senator’s Aide Held on Gun Charge
• NY TimesA close aide to Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, was arrested and jailed after trying to take a loaded handgun into a Senate office building, officials said.
Marines Call 1,800 From Ready Reserve
• Washington PostThe Marine Corps is recalling 1,800 reservists to active duty, citing a shortage of volunteers to fill some jobs in Iraq. Members of the branch's Individual Ready Reserve will receive letters to mobilize them involuntarily for a year, said Lt. Co
FBI Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants
• Washington PostFBI agents repeatedly provided inaccurate information to win secret court approval of surveillance warrants in terrorism and espionage cases, prompting officials to tighten controls on the way the bureau uses that powerful anti-terrorism tool, accord
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