January 2011
Companies used diesel to drill in AR →
Gas companies that use the hydraulic fracturing process - a drilling technique that uses millions of gallons of water, combined with a fair amount of chemicals, to crack shale formations and extract…
Jan 31st
Vermont Moving Toward Single-Payer →
Insane: “Obamacare, as we know, is the crown jewel of socialism.” - Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Sane: VERMONT GOV. PETER SHUMLIN (D): Well, it’s my belief that it’s not an employer’s…
Jan 29th
Unusual vehicle concepts from Gambo Design →
Shared by Chris Tackett This deck car is unreal! Some interesting concepts on the vehicle front from Nuremberg-based Gambo Design: The Thansadet is a towable camper-trailer, with a…
Jan 28th
Mom Sentenced to Jail For Seeking a Better... →
enlarge Have you ever known anyone who sent their children to a neighboring school district and used a relative’s address to qualify them? It happens here all the time, because an adjacent…
Jan 27th
TED Talk: Van Jones Links Plastics Pollution with... →
Image via TED video Van Jones gave a talk at a recent TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch event, and what he brought up about the correlation between plastic use and poverty was fascinating….
Jan 26th
Longtime Online Sex Columnist Dan Savage Gets MTV... →
Dan Savage, an online columnist who has been dishing out sex and relationship advice on The Onion and in other publications since 1991, is going to be…
Jan 25th
How-To: Ultralight camp pot from Heineken "keg"... →
In the summer of 2002, Heineken introduced its 24 oz. “mini keg” can in the US. Besides having twice the volume of a normal aluminum beverage can, the “mini keg’s” unusual design…
Jan 25th
Engineer designs his own heart implant →
Shared by Chris Tackett badass. Tal Golesworthy, a British engineer from Tewkesbury, suffered from Marfan syndrome, an inherited condition that threatened to split his aortic root. After being…
Jan 24th
The Inventor of the Cowboy Shirt : Observatory:... →
Jan 22nd
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of... →
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: “The Frontier is Everywhere” — breathtaking fan-made NASA promo video, lovingly compiled by YouTuber damewse, and…
Jan 12th
The Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers →
stats from 2010, with the biggest projects, most prolific creators and backers, and more
Jan 11th
Sand portraits →
Shared by Chris Tackett Wow, sort of blown away by that star sand. My pal Mouser has started a sand collection and is using a macro lens to take photos of each sample. This sample was…
Jan 10th
Markets in everything China fact of the day →
With more Chinese people getting behind the wheel every day, traffic jams are a major headache in most cities but the gridlock has become an opportunity for some entrepreneurs who are offering an…
Jan 10th
US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on... →
A Dutch investigative journalist blasted the US Department of Justice for requesting information on everyone following WikiLeaks’ Twitter account and everyone they follow. Which would include Raw…
Jan 10th
1964 Dodge Hemi Charger up for sale! →
You are looking at the first Dodge ever to use the Charger nameplate, the 1964 Dodge Hemi Charger Concept Car. Developed in late 1963 on Polara underpinnings, it was used by Chryslerto…
Jan 9th
Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart →
Shared by Chris Tackett Provocative. Not a fan of WalMart, but this seems to make sense for a unique situation like Detroit. Residents of Detroit are digging up vacant lots in their…
Jan 8th
Kentucky Law Would Force Women To See Ultrasound... →
Shared by Chris Tackett Conservatives complaining about the “nanny state” need to walk the walk and oppose these kinds of intrusive, condescending requirements. I’m not holding my breath.
Jan 8th
Daley is a reflection, not a cause →
Few things interest me less at this point than royal court personnel changes. I actually agree with the pro-Obama/Democratic-Party-loyal commentators who insist it doesn’t much matter who becomes…
Jan 7th
The Fraser Net-Zero Energy House →
In Fraser, Colorado, there’s a new net-zero energy house that was designed with impressive active and passive building technologies. It’s grid-tied and all-electric, using no fossil fuels…
Jan 7th
Taibbi on Boehner →
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone:The irony is, no one — no one — represents all of these bile-inspiring qualities better than John Boehner. His most striking achievement is that there’s a check mark…
Jan 6th
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Shared by Chris Tackett I kinda get the feeling he’s over these horns. via http://nonclickable.tumblr.com/
Jan 6th
A better world →
That’s from XKCD. Here’s the Wikipedia article.
Jan 5th
Speculations FAIL →
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Jan 5th
This Isn't a Post About Facebook →
I have resisted writing anything about the news that Facebook, which you may have heard of, raised a bunch of money at a $50-billion capitalization. The Interwebs and The Twitter are all ablaze…
Jan 4th
Incoming Energy Chair Rep. Fred Upton: ‘I Don’t... →
Shared by Chris Tackett It’s going to be a long 2(?) years with this Congress. ThinkProgress recently noted that Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who will take control of the House Energy and Commerce…
Jan 4th
Today in inequality reading: A sick society →
There’s growing evidence that the toll of our stunning inequality is not just economic but also is a melancholy of the soul. The upshot appears to be high rates of violent crime, high narcotics…
Jan 3rd
A Spoof Video Fires Back at Chevron's Greenwashing →
If you’ve seen the commercials that make up Chevron’s new “We Agree” campaign, you might well be infuriated. Despite its refusal to take responsibility for dumping 16.8 million gallons of…
Jan 3rd
Extreme Close-Ups of the Human Eye →
Suren Manvelyan is a photographer and physics teacher. He’s created a series of detailed images of the human eye called “Your Beautiful Eyes”: The 34-year-old from Yerevan, Armenia,…
Jan 2nd