WASHINGTON—In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year. U.S. Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
BBC News - Today - Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'
Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet.
The man who achieved global fame for his theory that the whole earth is a single organism now believes that we can only hope that the earth will take care of itself in the face of completely unpredictable climate change.
NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits as is begins probe of Toyota acceleration problem
NASA was able to put a man on the moon in the 1960's, but the space agency is looking for something to do. With only four remaining space shuttle mission, recently scrapped plans for returning to the moon, and years from a space shuttle replacement, was recently tasked with probing the Toyota acceleration problem. Why does this make no sense? Why is the administration using one federal agency (NASA) to investigate the competitor of a government run business entity (GM)? To make things more interesting, by its own admission, NASA's temperature records are in even worse shape than the besmirched Climate-gate data. Will there be any credibility to their findings? Is NASA getting into the auto industry? Only time will tell...
Monday, March 29, 2010
Best Free Browser Game: Supremacy 1914
If you like grand scale war games, but want something with a quick learning curve and not too heavy on micromanagement, try Supremacy 1914. It's like a real-time game of Risk, with up to 30 online players from around the globe, and you get to control the military, economy, diplomacy, etc. And you can't beat the price...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Qantas Pilot Allowed to Fly Despite Urges to Crash Jets
A Qantas pilot suffering from a mental illness was allowed to keep flying for three years despite complaining of his urges to crash his planes.
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