Friday, April 18, 2008

Some positive news. Rockets are neat.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13662-piloted-rocket-planes-set-for-first-race.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

"Pilots will compete head to head in the world's first race featuring rocket-powered planes on 1 August 2008, says the Rocket Racing League, which is organising the event."

Aren't there some kind of background checks before you can move into a child care facility?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/sex.offenders.daycare.ap/index.html

I mean, its not like the offenders lied. They gave their addresses correctly.

One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of corn based ethanol.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/14/world.food.crisis/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Yeah, basic foodstuff is not an "elastic" commodity.

I'm getting out my goddamn bicycle. Or walking. This is ridiculous.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080417/oil_prices.html?.v=10

On the plus side, I have another excuse to ride my motorcycle. I mean, the thing gets about 50 miles per gallon.

So you can't even throw out things anymore without permission.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-universal-tossing-that-promo-cd-violates-our-rights.html

Remember how those "red light cameras" were supposed to make things safer. Yeah, thats not the point.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080410/011257809.shtml

"Cities Caught Illegally Tampering With Traffic Lights To Increase Revenue Of Red Light Cameras"

America's morals are out of whack.

http://gamepolitics.com/2008/04/11/sex-in-games-more-of-a-concern-than-violence-say-parents/

"Mom and Dad are more concerned about depictions of sex than violence, according to the results of a poll at parent-oriented site What They Play."

Have you all read 1984?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103655.html

"The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority."