1. #Jan25: “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt.” 53 minutes ago permalinkIts been a remarkable few months in the middle east. Most recently the events in Egypt have captured the world and Al Jazeera’s english web site has become the place to watch many of the events unfold. Given that the channel isnt carried by most US cable companies the web site has been the means to view the channel live over the ...
2. Youtube Gems: Joss Stone and Jeff Beck 1 hour ago permalinkThis is an almost perfect combination -- one of my favorite singers (Joss Stone), one of the world's most brilliant guitarists (Jeff Beck), the world's greatest drummer (Vinnie Colaiuta) and one of the ten greatest songs of the rock era, People Get Ready. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... Also check out the ...
3. Hutchinson Wants To Go To Court 38 minutes ago permalinkRemember Ken Hutchinson, the virulently anti-gay preacher from Washington? Now it seems he's jumping on the anti-evolution bandwagon. In a recent communication with his flock he said: Dear Prayer Warrior, Put your prayer knee pads on. I think God is leading me to raise support to sue the state of Washington Board of Education for teaching a ... 4. Zos Kias 1 hour ago permalink5. Seeds 1 hour ago permalinkSeeds joins the growing category of memoir comics, specifically those about dealing with cancer, either one’s own or that of a family member. (Compare Mom’s Cancer, Cancer Vixen, Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, and Our Cancer Year, to name the best-known.) Author Ross Mackintosh here captures his reactions to his father’s ... 6. Software makes it easy to say, 'forgive me father, iSinned' 1 hour ago permalinkSouth Bend, Ind.— Can your iPad or iPhone bring you closer to God? A new application for the devices aims to help Roman Catholics who haven't been to the confessional booth in a while keep track of their sins, one Commandment at a time.
7. Darwin and the Voyage: 08 ~ The Gauchos 1 hour ago permalinkWe're half way through Darwin Month, and only a tiny ways through the voyage. Need to hurry up! So, let's skip ahead a bit and hit the Gauchos.... (This is a modified version of a post from my old blog). Well, you don't really want to hit at Gaucho ... they hit back rather hard.... Read More Read the comments on this post... Also check out the ... 8. We Can 'Print Prosperity': On Ersatz Fiscal Constraints and Idle Real Resources 1 hour ago permalinkOne of the annoying claims by the so-called fiscally responsible is that we can't "print prosperity"--that is, we can't deficit spend in order to help the real economy. It's derided as unrealistic and 'ideological' (whereas fiscal austerity is implied to be 'common sense'). Peter Cooper explains how it is fiscal austerity--the worship of deficit ... 9. Soul'd 1 hour ago permalink10. Paul Krugman: Signs of Returning Sanity in Monetary Policy? 1 hour ago permalinkPaul Krugman: Europe Turns on Its Axel : Axel Weber has bowed out of the race for ECB head gracefully.... [Since] this isn’t... about the person... [but] the views... I am therefore glad to hear both that he won’t be taking the job, and that the reason he bowed out was that euro-area leaders didn’t share his hard-money views. ... 11. I get email 2 hours ago permalinkI don't know what it is, but the kooks who write to me either don't know what paragraphs are, so that I get a dense knot of disconnected sentences, or they use a peculiar pattern of quirky line breaks that makes sense to them, I suppose, but not to anyone else. Arvin is one of the latter. He likes his white space. Hello Dr. PZ Myers my name is ... 12. Sarah Palin Embraces Evolution 2 hours ago permalinkOK, maybe the argument is a bit weak, but still... Read the comments on this post... Also check out the featured ScienceBlog of the week: Inside the Outbreaks on the ScienceBlogs Book Club 13. Creators of Transformers: War For Cybertron Release A Tease For Transformers: Dark of The Moon Game! 4 hours ago permalinkAmazon listings has the game release for June 14th 2011, which is half a month before the actual movie release on Playstation 3, XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. More Transformers: Dark of the Moon Videos Transformers: Dark of the Moon is released in Theaters July 1, 2011. LEEE777 - Many thanks to CBMer and buddy loum410 again for the ...
14. Higher Resolution Logo For The Avengers Merchandise Revealed! 2 hours ago permalinkThanks to RealIrOnMaN for providing us with the following image. Directed by Joss Whedon and starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson, The Avengers is set to be released on May 4, 2012! 15. An Immigrant's Quest For Identity In The 'Open City' 6 hours ago permalinkTeju Cole's debut novel, Open City, follows Julius, a half-Nigerian and half-German doctor, as he wanders the streets of New York. Julius struggles to understand his identity as an immigrant, an experience the author himself is familiar with. 16. Player4you 8 hours ago permalinkplayer4you is a free player that plays videos from Youtube without commercials and uses a crossfader to avoid breaks between the tracks. A live search makes it easy to find your favorite tracks. You can also load and save playlists and customize the player. Date Updated: 2011-02-13 Developer: wolfgangpue Tags: fun , music , search , video APIs: ...
17. Wave of imports hits export-led growth 7 hours ago permalinkMy regular piece is available to subscribers on www.thesundaytimes.co.uk. This is an excerpt. Every month I look for the promised improvement in Britains trade performance on the back of a super-competitive pound, which is 24% below pre-crisis levels. And... 18. Hospitals in Germany 8 hours ago permalinkDisplays hospitals in Germany and shows their job offers. Date Updated: 2011-02-13 Developer: smmm0105 Tags: mapping , reference , search , visualization APIs: Google Maps 19. 02/11/11 PHD comic: 'How do I love you?' 9 hours ago permalinkPiled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " How do I love you? " - originally published 2/11/2011 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! 20. 10am 9 hours ago permalinkUnion Station at 10am on a Sunday.... |
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