ABC Pushes Gun Control Documentary, Absurdly Touts Work of the Brady Campaign as ‘Not Anti-Gun’
December 27, 2010 No Comment
According to Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on Monday, the efforts of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence aren't “anti-gun.” The morning show co-host interviewed Colin Goddard, the group's assistant director of legislative affairs, and promoted a new documentary on the “gun show loophole.” Colin Goddard survived the massacre at Virginia Tech and now works for the aggressively anti-Second Amendment organization. Yet, while talking to Goddard, she portrayed the group's work as just common sense. She exclaimed, ” Because you're not anti-gun .” After playing a clip of the young man going undercover at a gun show, she mildly suggested, “And we were talking in the commercial break and saying there are groups on both sides. There are groups that say I have the right to bear arms, I don't need this. How do we coexist?” [ MP3 audio here . See video below .] read more
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Things are looking up for Gov. Mark Sanford as he prepares to leave office on his own terms more than a year after the international affair that derailed his once-promising political career. (Dec. 27)
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We mean this with no disrespect to Lenovo , but when you first lay eyes (or hands) on the incredibly attractive IdeaPad U260, it’s pretty hard to believe that it was made by the company. Sure, the Chinese laptop manufacturer has always had a certain knack for creating very powerful and well-rounded ultraportables, but “drop-dead gorgeous” isn’t exactly how we’d describe systems like the Lenovo IdeaPad U160 , Edge 11 , or ThinkPad X301 . The U260 is indeed a total 180 for the company, and it’s one of the most dapper and svelte laptops we’ve seen in a long time — there’s no question about it, its magnesium-aluminum alloy shell, leather palm rest, and glass touchpad even give the newest MacBook Airs a run for their money. But even better, the 12.5-inch system has the brawn to match that external beauty – its 0.7-inch shell has been injected with a Core i5 ULV processor, 4GB of RAM, and 320GB of storage. At $1,100 (the Core i3 version starts at $999), there’s no denying that it’s more than enticing, but is the U260 immune to Lenovo’s typical ultraportable pain points, including poor battery life and tepid temperatures? We’ve been lucky enough to spend the last few days with the beautiful machine (yes, we took it on vacation!), so jump down below to find out in our full review! Gallery: Lenovo IdeaPad U260 Continue reading Lenovo IdeaPad U260 review Filed under: Laptops Lenovo IdeaPad U260 review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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I want to thank all C&L readers for their support of our book, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America A great holiday read. We get a lot of books sent to us and I asked Nicole what books she was reading. She’s currently reading ” Girl With A Dragon Tattoo trilogy , which I heard was great. Now that I’m getting back into the swing of things again, I want to hear from my readers. What books did you think were the best books of 2010? Not just political books, either. I’m a big fan of potboiler detective stories for the escape too. So what books were the must-reads for you this year?
Continue reading …When the Associated Press put together a roll call of the notable deaths of 2010, some of them came with a little glitter in their brief descriptions from reporter Bernard McGhee. For example: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 92. Rose from an impoverished childhood in West Virginia's coal country to become the longest-serving senator in U.S. history. June 28. Or this one: U.S. Rep. John Murtha, 77. The tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War. Feb. 8. Complications from gallbladder surgery. Both of these men were renowned as pork-barrel champions. But guess who was tagged with pork in their sentence? The Republican: read more
Continue reading …Rare Video of Wild Cambodian Elephant Released by Wildlife Conservation Society
December 27, 2010 No Comment
There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia’s Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The short video, a screengrab of which is above ( here’s the original footage ), taken back in August by Allan Michaud shows a male elephant feeding on grass. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A blizzard has made streets in New York all but impassable, stopping vehicles in their tracks. One New York taxi driver slept in his cab, then woke up, hoping for a tow. (Dec. 27)
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The tone of the question was startlingly hostile – not what one expects in the hushed, tony recesses of New York’s Council on Foreign Relations, perhaps the preeminent foreign-affairs think-tank in the United States and one whose membership is a virtual “Who’s Who” of the American foreign policy elite.
Continue reading …IBM makes racetrack memory breakthrough, which could come in handy someday
December 27, 2010 No Comment
If you can’t tell your DRAM from your STT-MRAM, you’ll need to bear with us for a sec: IBM’s figured out the math required to read and write data from the spaces between magnetic fields, racing across a nanowire, at hundreds of miles per hour. IBM’s been plugging away at the so-called racetrack memory since 2004, calling it the perfect hybrid of magnetic storage and flash, but until recently scientists didn’t know whether the magnetic domain walls (where data will live) had any mass to speak of. As it turns out, they do, and thus have to obey the tiresome laws of physics as they move along the nanowire “track,” but also accelerate and decelerate the exact same amount, more or less canceling out the effect. Long story short, IBM can use this knowledge to precisely position those 1s and 0s in their newfound data bank, and someday we’ll all reap the benefits of dense, speedy and reliable memory. You know, assuming PRAM , FeRAM , ReRAM and memristors don’t eat IBM’s lunch. PR after the break. Continue reading IBM makes racetrack memory breakthrough, which could come in handy someday IBM makes racetrack memory breakthrough, which could come in handy someday originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Sharing websites put stuff packed in closets to good use. Photo via Apreche Usually EcoModo refers to the title of TreeHugger’s weekly column on Gizmodo . But apparently there’s more than one “Ecomodo” — the second is a new website for sharing and trading your stuff with other people. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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