The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
(This title was taken from one of the comments on the article, I felt it was quite apropos.)
Did Romney enable company’s abusive tax shelter?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/opinion/canellos-kleinbard-romney-taxes/index.html
In the unlikely even that I have any Romney supporters amongst my reader(s), here …
A new global warming offender: Dam drawdowns
http://www.petridishnews.com/news/a-new-global-warming-offender-dam-drawdowns/
I wonder how this changes the proportion of CO2 to methane that otherwise would have happened without the dam. The vast majority of biological material is recycled, most of it on an …
Alaska Airlines: Note on wing ‘not the best approach’
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/travel/alaska-airlines-wing-damage-note/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10
Rather amusing to me…
The best response was in one of the comments:
…If they used some jargon, “Tech log deferral entered per Boeing CDL 4-56-78” this would never have
Amazon’s New Secret Weapon: Delivery Lockers
Online Retailer Expands Use of Cabinets for Package Deliveries
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html
I spoke about Amazon’s increasing influence earlier, here it is again. It seems I failed to blog (or at least am failing to …
Corporate Fraud Cases Often Spare Individuals
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/business/more-fraud-settlements-for-companies-but-rarely-individuals.html?_r=2&hp
CEOs have wwwaaaayyyyy too much power today. They control the board when it is supposed to be the other way around and in nearly a majority of cases the CEO doesn’t even own …
Microbial Life In An Undersea Volcano, New Limits Of Life Defined
http://planetsave.com/2012/08/07/microbial-life-in-an-undersea-volcano-new-limits-of-life-defined/
The range of environments that life occupies here on Earth makes it clear to me that life _must be_ ubiquitous in the universe. While everything on Earth has, …
Can weight training prevent diabetes?
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/08/07/can-weight-training-prevent-diabetes/u8dBg9XLWx85FUXpsru2nL/story.html
…That’s what Harvard School of Public Health researchers found when they followed more than 32,000 men for nearly two decades: Those who reported doing 30 minutes a day of resistance training at the beginning
Unrestrained savagery
In Yemen, Al Qaeda bombs a funeral of someone it killed days earlier. How can Terrorist monsters do this?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/unrestrained_savagery/
Glenn is such a far out voice in the wilderness. Shouting in a vacuum all the time surely …
GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party
A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/05/republicans_slouching_toward_theocracy/
Will the pendulum swing back? _Can_ the pendulum swing back?
The author makes some very plausible …
5 Ways You Don’t Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/
For those of you who refuse to follow the link…
…#5. No, You Can’t Separate Fact from Fiction
#4. Stories Were Invented to Control You
#3. The Writer of