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How Barack Obama Is Like George Costanza
— Forget Jimmy Carter
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Turds or Curds: Which Fairground Droppings Best Convert to Energy?
— Which waste is the best to convert to energy -- animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground favorites? That'...
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Grunge…Again? 90s Music Coming Back, but is that a Good Thing?
— For those of us suffering from a severe case of 90s nostalgia, in theory, it’s been a great couple of years. Not only are bands like Pearl Jam and ...
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Diving in (PICS)
— As summer begins to wind down, the temperature still remains high in some places (in the Northern hemisphere, of course). Cool waters call out to t...
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun won’t include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmosphere, approximately…
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Twitter for iPhone/iPad Getting Push Notifications Soon
[Mashable] Twitter for iPhone/iPad Getting Push Notifications Soon: We’ve just gotten an email from Twitter statin...
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Google Wave to Rise Again on Its Own
Google Wave to Rise Again on Its Own: Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a ... #glomable
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Hurricane Earl along the North Carolina Coast : Natural Hazards
"Beauty shot" of Hurricane Earl from NASA's Terra satellite this a.m. The Global Hawk is in there somewhere.
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