At least 18 people were killed in Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday as tornadoes and other severe weather swept across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.
read moreThe number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from 7,500 to 2,500.
The Renewable Energy Association, which says the programme is failing, has accused ministers of complacency.
But the government says uptake went up considerably last month after the need for planning permission was removed.
read moreA Navy admiral engaged in sexual relations in the White House in 1990 with a federal employee whom he falsely told he was a widower, according to a report released Friday by the Defense Department.
In March, when the report was submitted to Pentagon officials, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem was demoted and fired from his post as director of the Navy staff.
Stufflebeem told investigators he couldn't remember the name of the woman he had an affair with.
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
A religious court in Malaysia has allowed a Muslim convert to leave the Islamic faith, in what is being hailed as a landmark ruling. Penang's Sharia court ruled that Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah was free to return to Buddhism, following the collapse of her marriage to a Muslim man. It was decided she had not had proper counselling during her conversion.
A front seat car passenger was photographed baring his backside at a speed camera in Northumberland, U.K. The "mooning" man was snapped by the mobile camera as the black BMW X5 drove past on the A1171 Dudley Lane in Cramlington last month, behaviour labeled as "dangerous and offensive" by road safety campaigners.
read moreLand 'O Lakes, Florida -- The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student.
Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher's job is on the line, but this time it's because of a magic trick.
The charge from the school district -- Wizardry!
read more"Do they really know, joking aside, at what point the risk becomes apparent?"
Posted by Jawjaboy at 2008-05-11 12:14 PM
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z.about.com
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
"History to consider
Compiled by Jim Walker
First U.S. money never used the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST"
The original Pledge of Allegiance did not use the words "under God""
www.nobeliefs.com
"On March 22, 1956, during the Christian anti-communist fever of McCarthyism, Congress passed a bill establishing "IN GOD WE TRUST" as a national motto."
Idiots.
Claim: The youngest mother on record was a five-year-old Peruvian girl.
Status: True.
www.snopes.com
" 'You just have to have enough money to live on Belvedere.
~ZATOICHI'
Hole in one Flag."
Posted by Zap at 2008-05-10 09:02 PM
I have a (late) cousin who lived in the Summer house of the guy who built the bridge.
Every room had a view; Even the can; No shit.
And Brandy Ho's is still the best Chinese I ever ate.
www.brandyhos.com
Country 2000 L.E.
Andorra 83.5
San Marino 81.1
Japan 80.7
Singapore 80.1
Australia 79.8
Sweden 79.6
Switzerland 79.6
Canada 79.4
Iceland 79.4
Italy 79
France 78.8
Liechtenstein 78.8
Monaco 78.8
Spain 78.8
Norway 78.7
Israel 78.6
Greece 78.4
Netherlands 78.3
Malta 77.9
Belgium 77.8
New Zealand 77.8
Austria 77.7
United Kingdom 77.7
Finland 77.4
Germany 77.4
Jordan 77.4
Luxembourg 77.1
United States 77.1
Ireland 76.8
Cyprus 76.7
geography.about.com
"We should have attacked Iran in the 1980's when all their citzens were chanting Death to America."
We did.
It was a disaster.
history.sandiego.edu
"One last question: when Bush points his finger at meddlers how many fingers are pointing back at himself?"
Posted by YoMeLIB
bloggerradio.typepad.com
I nominate this as the Worst Sentence of the Week,
Or perhaps the Worst Sentence of the Weak.
Or perhaps the wurst sentence.
www.uni-erfurt.de
Hahahahahahaa
Posted by dawgpound
I have pictures.
Had them for over a year.
Los Alamos doesn't have any pictures.
Nor does anyone else.
Night.
www.hep.utexas.edu
"muon topography"
It's spelled tomography.
There exists one detector; It's been running 13 months now.
Two in the wings as I build them.
Check Arecaeology magazine's next issue.
"Muon Archaeology
By analyzing the trajectory of high-energy particles, known as muons, archaeologists hope to create images of the interior of pyramids in Belize and Mexico.'
www.archaeology.org
"I find that statement laughable."
Posted by Ray
Thanks for the laugh.
This guy introduced me to Prince Charles.
www.engr.utexas.edu
We must have Ray's "engineering" credentials ...
[citation needed]
"I have my kids buying all the gold and silver they can afford."
I hope they like it with a caper sauce.
Knowledge is the only real wealth in this universe.
And it must be passed on or it will be lost.
Science 9 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5877, pp. 752 - 753
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158105
Perspectives
ECOLOGY:
How the Sahara Became Dry
Jonathan A. Holmes
A continuous lake record elucidates how Saharan climate changed gradually from humid to today's desert conditions.
www.sciencemag.org
"Fuck Time magazine."
Posted by dethspud at 2008-05-08 04:36 PM
img.timeinc.net
img.timeinc.net
img.timeinc.net
And 1939's Time Man of the Year, Adolf Hitler.
img.timeinc.net
Adolph Hitler, Man of the Year
Jan. 2, 1939
www.time.com
And inside:
"A group of Soviet meteorologists, who have recorded Arctic temperatures for a decade, reported last fortnight that the Arctic is warmer. They are backed up by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. "
www.time.com
"Didn't that 2002 have over 200k on the odo when you finally got rid of it?"
Posted by JeffJ
300k
Goddamn brick it was.
Mine was maroon.
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www.madle.org
www.seriouswheels.com
"ancient data from long-dead men"
I went back to the bibliography.
www.aip.org
1939 Time, "Warmer World." Time, 2 Jan., p. 27.
That was the issue where Hitler was named Man of the Year. www.time.com
The article in question:
"It was plenty cold in Europe last week (see p. 10), but gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right--except that the change is too small to be detected except by instruments and statistics in the hands of professional meteorologists. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer."
www.time.com
Rotting corpses pile up as Myanmar stalls on aid
YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar's cyclone survivors have insufficient fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the country's military junta continues to block access for aid groups.
www.cnn.com
"ancient data from long-dead men"
Like this?
"Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, p. 595
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5876.595
News of the Week
GLOBAL WARMING:
Mother Nature Cools the Greenhouse, but Hotter Times Still Lie Ahead
Richard A. Kerr
As climate-change skeptics like to point out, worldwide temperatures haven't risen much in the past decade. If global warming is such hot stuff, they ask, why hasn't it soared beyond the El Nio-driven global warmth of 1998? Mainstream climate researchers reply that greenhouse warming isn't the only factor at work. And in a new paper, they put some numbers on that rebuttal. They show that regional and even global temperatures are being held down by a natural jostling of the climate system, driven in large part by vacillating ocean currents. The study "shows how natural climate variability can mask the global warming effect of greenhouse gases," says climate researcher Adam Scaife of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, U.K., "but only for a few years.""
www.sciencemag.org
I think I'll get a B-17 next.
"Never been to the Lone Star State."
Posted by CalifChris at 2008-05-07 09:10 PM |
A poster who used the handle Rodeglide was a Jr High bud of mine in Marlin.
I rather like it here.
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Enjoy Texas!
I do. Immensely."
Posted by goatman
Looks across front pasture.
Agrees.
i179.photobucket.com
"what do YOU see when you turn out the lights?"
Posted by Dumb_as_Rocks
I can't tell you ... but I know it's mine.
www.hep.utexas.edu
"Five days after a devastating cyclone struck, the UN has urged Burma to open its doors to foreign aid and staff.
More than 22,000 people were killed, says the government, but the top US diplomat in Burma warned that without speedy action that could top 100,000. "
news.bbc.co.uk
"I think its on their state flag..."
Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole at 2008-05-07 10:56 AM
www.50states.com
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see."--Thomas Jefferson
i179.photobucket.com
It only works twice.
And the first time wasn't too hot by '29.