“the satellites are capable of calculating your average speed between two points” http://gizmodo.com/5521918/speeding-tickets-now-coming-from-outer-space There was a time where space was a place of wonder, not it’s just another place to screw you over from.
Ex-military leaders: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’ http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.fat.fight/index.html?hpt=C1 Maybe we’ll actually eat ourselves out of a war. High fructose corn syrup might be our ticket to peace.
TYPE O NEGATIVE keyboardist Josh Silver has confirmed to BLABBERMOUTH.NET that the band’s frontman, Peter Steele, passed away yesterday (Wednesday, April 14) at the age of 48. No official cause of death has yet been released, but it is believed that Steele died of heart failure. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=138519
(CNN) — Actress Dixie Carter, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show “Designing Women,” has died, her agent said Saturday. She was 70. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/10/dixie.carter.obit/index.html?hpt=T2 I actually saw her perform live here in Houston at the Alley Theater, she was good.
the “Become a Fan” verbiage will disappear, being replaced by the simple “Like” button and thumbs up icon http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=143045 This is a step in the right direction, companies trying to “reach out to consumers” is a way to sell more product. Advertising is a terrible idea, and to have it invade an area where I [...]
“For most Americans, silence is hard to find these days. Traffic, airplane noise and public transport fill most major cities.” http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/04/04/pursuit_of_silence_interview/index.html Humans are social creatures, but silence is something that you realize you need when you get a few minutes of it.
We basically have access to all human knowledge through sources like google. Now the next hurdle is to narrow down everything to stuff you actually need. Regardless of how much information we want to take in, there has to be a point where you either become overloaded and leave totally or you decide what you [...]
