The Zingularity
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Scientists have discovered a group of microbes that might be able to flourish on Mars. The critters, archaea to be precise, were found on the rocky slope of a volcano in an inhospitable region of South America and they’re genetically distinct from most other known microbes: [Read more…]
Sorry for playing hookey for the last day or two. It was for a good cause: Wind speed 0 mph, wave height non-existent, technical description: calm as bath water. So a friend and I have been hitting it extra early, gliding over a dark green watery mirror as sson as it was lit by a flaming red rising sun. That’s me at about 8 AM just past the intersection of the Pedernales River and Lake Travis, central Texas, on my beloved Hyperlite wakeboard with Ronix boots that fit like little foot-gloves. With the back fins off on water that silky smooth, this board spins like a top, it’s almost like riding a big, polished frisbee over water. We rode and fell and fell and rode, until our bruised and battered middle-aged bodies could take no more. What are you doing this weekend?
This might have made a great Netroots Nation 2012 party theme if it had happened sooner. Yesterday morning MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough was whining about a piece in the NYT about Romney’s wealth and his recent multimillion dollar makeover of a beach mansion. The conservative commentator immediately went into the all too familiar rightwing persecution mode [Read more…]
NASA’s SOHO and Venus in transit. Awesome! And there are more photos, I’ll be adding to this for the next few hours time permitting. [Read more…]
The end of the world as we know it is fast approaching, according to some scientists, and it may be close enough now that millions of people already alive will live to see it happen: [Read more…]
The assault on middle class America took another turn for the worse last night as Scott Walker cruised to an easy win on a mountain of out of state money and all it can buy. But there is some tentative good news, Walker and his crackpot zillionaire agenda may be put on ice: [Read more…]
I don’t think there is any significant session ID hacking in Diablo III and I’ll tell you why. A friend and I have been playing with an app called Wireshark (And a few less reputable tools) while we were hooked up to D3 — from several PCs and IPs mind you. It turns out Blizzard may not as stupid as some players speculate. [Read more…]
The shape of elections and outside money in a post Citizens United America. Source Mother Jones
9:55 PM MSNBC calls the race for Scott Walker.
While we wait … CNN exit polls show Obama crushing Romney in WI 54 to 42. The same poll shows the big race neck and neck, 50/50, Walker vs Barrett. But another exit poll showed Walker up 52 to 48. I’ll split the difference and guess Walker edges out Barrett by 2 points. How about you? [Read more…]
Well, this is bizarre. It seems the boys in black developed two Hubble sized telescopes for spying on earth’s surface, but the devices were never deployed and are now out of date … or something. So they’ve been turned over to NASA: [Read more…]