April 2012
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
Billions of dead fish invade Redondo's King Harbor... →
Billions of dead sardines are blanketing the sea bottom and floating on the surface of the water this morning at King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, and officials are trying to figure out what happened.
February 2011
4 posts
Apophis Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036,... →
January 2011
29 posts
Technological singularity →
The World is sinking: Dubai islands 'falling into... →
WatchThe mere existence of this television show is a sure sign of the Apocalypse
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
List of Retronyms →
A retronym is a term that is renamed after something similar but newer has come into being. For example: Before canned corn was widely available, “corn on the cob” was simply “corn.”
Reading this list is an fun exercise in questioning what we take for granted without realizing it.
Higgs Boson Discovered? Not So Fast. →
Tunguska Event: Russia Gets Nailed by a... →
from Wikipedia:
“The Tunguska event is the largest impact event over land in Earth’s recent history. Impacts of similar size over remote ocean areas would have gone unnoticed before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Bird expert: Don't worry too much about the... →
We can’t say we weren’t warned about Arizona... →
The ‘Lost’ Paradox: Why Some Free Shows On The Web... →
Sad images of American airport security theater →
Google Map of recent mass animal die-offs →
Harlan Ellison: The Road ripped off A Boy and his... →
Who can possibly own an idea? Should we allow our litigation system to be clogged with patent and copyright infringement cases? What happens when settlement is simpler and cheaper than an idealogical battle you can win?
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THE TOPPLING →
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war by Peter Maass
VOCALO - Winter Coats & The End of the World??? →
Its Vocalo 89.5’s show of winter coats and apocalypse on the Vocalo Overdrive.
Dead fish and birds: Hundreds of dead birds found... →
In Louisiana, officials said 500 birds were likely killed when they flew into power lines, however, no explanation has been given as to what may have sparked the odd flight patterns.
Meantime, about 100 dead crows fell dead in Sweden while millions of dead fish have washed up in the United States, Brazil and New Zealand.
The fish kill was first reported when 100,000 dead drum fish were...
For traditional Mac developers, Armageddon comes... →
The Mac software market is about as old-school as you get. Developers have been creating, shipping, and selling products through traditional channels and at traditional price points for decades.
Heck, I ran a Mac software company back in the 1980s and 1990s, and although we sold products mostly in boxes, rather than on the Internet, our prices back then weren’t much different than the price...
Air Force names new drone after Greek she-monster... →
from bOINGbOING:
“In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a terrifying female monster with venomous snakes growing out of her head. Her unblinking eyes turned to stone all humans who gazed upon her. How scary was she? Her name derives from gorgós, the Greek word for “dreadful.”
But make way for rebranding! Now, she’s the inspiration for a multimillion dollar project the...
Mysterious bird deaths hit Sweden →
Dozens of dead birds have been found lying in a residential street in Sweden, days after thousands of birds fell to their deaths in the US.
Police in the town of Falkoeping have told Swedish media that between 50 and 100 jackdaws had died.
Some are said to have been hit by cars but others have no visible injuries.
Parallels have been drawn with the mysterious death of about 3,000 red-winged...
Victoria River Mysteriously Turns Bright Green →
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Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300... →
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For Arkansas Blackbirds, the New Year Never Came →
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2012 is 2011 →
“Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.
‘That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.’
The real date for the end of times, he...
