Suggesting that mountains could have growth spurts. Thousands of new species were identified in 2007. Chinese hackers have targeted Congressional computers. Looking at Firefox™ pledges and non-integrated countries . The dark side of Wikipedia: cyberstalkers, death threats … Warning of a water catastrophe in Victoria. Via splodgenoodles . If you have a high migration policy...

Yes, it's true: I am quite mad. Talking to oneself is supposed to be an iron-clad symptom, right? Total comments: 3202 1 carbonelle 1106 2 derringdo 256 3 kalquessa 158 4 aitchmark 136 5 thegameiam 122 6 filkferengi 121 7 commodorified 98 8 sparrowrose 98 9 ...

Woman killed while phoning police for help. Via notebuyer . Thinking about the “the Constitution is not a suicide pact” line. The US government has rather a lot of people on various terrorism-watch lists. About the incentives that drive that. An attack on American anti-intellectualism turns out to be another rant against ideas the author disagrees with. And she leaves a few things...

The effects of wind currents on ocean currents may be significant . A new derivation of basic greenhouse equations changes the results somewhat: NASA refused to release the results. Miskolczi believes their motivation is simple. "Money", he tells DailyTech. Research that contradicts the view of an impending crisis jeopardizes funding, not only for his own atmosphere-monitoring project, but all...

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The Albert Park by-election will have at least one memorable candidate . Immigration Minister Andrews will not release secret information behind cancellation of Dr Haneef’s visa because it would compromise an ongoing investigation in the UK. Via ozgenre . Which might be entirely true, but the point of due process is that authorities who have information they can’t reveal are not in a situation...

On the awkward economics and politics of health care. If you don’t ration by price, you ration by queue (or favours): but an 18 month wait for a hearing aid when you’re 108 is not a laughing matter. The CD boom is over and iTunes and iPods killed it while live performance is doing very well: Being in the same place at the same time as a live performance, music fans appear to have decided,...

A followup to the article in the previous post. Again, very interesting. Not sure I care right now about the which school of moral cognitive theory is correct, but the article provides a lot of food for thought. Worth a read. http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/art icles/haidt.joseph.2007.the-moral-mind.d oc Both articles were suggested by notebuyer over on  johncwright 's journal...

A wonderful Panasonic™ ad . Via dputiger . Richard Dawkins, Ted Haggard and Monty Python . The Muppets do Jabberwocky . Via spark_au . Kermit is sad . Via andricongirl . Fight the tyranny of the cursor ! Animator versus Animation II (the Chosen One) . Both via madewithplastic . Awkward trying to do a robbery when your prosthetic leg falls off . Thanks...

Physics theories as women . How to do the perfect peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. Panda porn didn’t work, so they’ve moved on to artificial insemination . Saturn has a really big hexagon . How Pratchetty. Via morganjaffit . Tsunami to hit North-East coast of Oz! Well, not so much . Wiggling your eyes may improve your memory . Eating beef during pregnancy may lead to low sperm...